2008 National Forum

Download the program or individual vodcasts and presentations from the 2008 AEF National Forum.

2020 Schools: Engage with Asia DVD

This DVD is designed for use by school leaders, teachers and school communities to support the implementation of the National Statement for Engaging Young Australians with Asia in Australian Schools [Ministerial Council for Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs, 2005].

The DVD includes contributions from leading Australians who discuss both the rationale and imperative for study about Asia in Australian schools, as well as from school principals, teachers and students who describe how best practice engagement with Asia occurs in schools. The material on the DVD can be utilised in schools in a number of ways: as a professional learning tool, to engage parents and broader community in Asia engagement, and with students across curriculum areas.

The DVD project was funded in part by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations through the Asia Education Foundation under the Grants and Awards Program.

The length of DVD is 14 minutes and 37 seconds. To obtain a copy of the DVD, please email aef@asialink.unimelb.edu.au

Bring Indonesia into your classroom

The Australia-Indonesia School BRIDGE Project is a new initiative of the Australia-Indonesia Institute and the AEF, funded by The Myer Foundation. The program aims to increase Australian students' knowledge and understanding of Indonesia, particularly the role of Islam in contemporary Indonesian society and further Indonesian students' knowledge and understanding of contemporary Australia.

Australian educators and schools will:

• Host an Indonesian educator
• Participate in funded ICT training
• Engage with Indonesian students and teachers through online curriculum projects

Email Aaron O'Shannessy to join this project studytours@asialink.unimelb.edu.au

Building Relationships through Intercultural Dialogue and Growing Engagement

Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia

The Hon Julia Gillard, MP, Deputy Prime Minister; Minister for Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations; Minister for Social Inclusion launched the AEF's Leading 21st Century Schools National Forum in Adelaide on 19 May 2008. The Forum, attended by 240 leading Australian educators, included the 118 principals participating in the Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia Project. The Minister said '...It is impossible to conceive of a future Australian education system that does not take the study of Asia seriously....It's part of a major process of modernisation of Australian education that needs to take place if we are to equip our people to thrive in the 21st Century...'

The Leading 21st Century Schools: Engage with Asia project is an initiative for principals funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The project will improve learning outcomes in studies of Asia and Australia.

The AEF, in partnership with all peak principal associations and state and territory education jurisdictions, will provide professional learning to a national network of 120 leading primary and secondary principals. Principals will be supported to internationalize their curriculum by building their schools' capacity to equip students with intercultural knowledge, skills and understandings required for life in a rapidly changing world.

School support

Studies of Asia and Australia Advisors in each state and territory,
except in the case of NSW, where the contact is:

New South Wales
Brian Elliott
NSW Department of Education and Training
Manager HSIE, Curriculum Directorate
Tel: (02) 9886 7603
Fax: (02) 9886 7305
brian.elliott@det.nsw.edu.au
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