Ivanhoe Indonesia Partnership
17 Apr 2009
Ivanhoe Grammar School is one of 30 schools around Australia embarking on a groundbreaking project aimed at building a permanent bridge between two very different worlds.
The large-scale BRIDGE project - Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement – is an intercultural understanding project which will forge ongoing school-to-school relationships between Australia and Indonesia.
The project, ultimately involving 180 Indonesian and Australian teachers, begins this month with the first group of Indonesian teachers arriving to meet their school partners from rural and city schools across Australia. They will participate in a three-week intensive training course alongside their Australian partner teachers.
The BRIDGE teachers represent a broad range of communities including remote and disadvantaged schools in Indonesia, and religious schools in both countries. The aim of the project is to build links between Australian and Indonesian schools and to create cultural understanding between the two countries.