Japanese language teacher Gokce Delioglu visited Japan through the Victorian Department of Education and Training Languages Teaching Scholarships In-Country Course programme, and brought what she learned back to her classroom. Find out what happened.

Teach your students about India by building lasting connections with a school there through the Australia–India BRIDGE project. School partnerships will build and sustain collaboration across learning areas and foci.

It's also not too late to register for the Australia–China BRIDGE project, which includes webinars, in-country professional learning, a homestay with your local counterparts and support from AEF. Register now.

Join AEF's Lisa Hayman and Eeqbal Hassim, and the Department of Education and Training ACT, for a seminar on 26 June in Canberra to build school leaders' Asia capability. Register now.

Following on from the success of online professional learning conference EdFest15, #PSTEdFest will be an open online learning conference for pre-service teachers. Tell us what you'd like to see, and when.

AEF's Indonesian speaker, Bonnie Hermawan, recently spoke to students at Como Secondary College in WA using Google Hangout. ‘It was great for the students to hear from someone new and [Bonnie] reinforced a lot of what we've been learning about in our 'karir keren' (cool careers) topic of study’ said Penelope Coutas, the school’s Indonesian teacher. Learn more about school visits.

AEF invites you to share your favourite Vietnamese resources for students available on the web, to be used in the creation of a curated list of digital content. Contact us to submit your favourites!

With Ramadan beginning on 18 June, teach your students about the Islamic holy month, observed by many in Asia and Australia, through our curated list of digital resources for History. Link to a rich collection of videos, learning activities and more for Year 3 students.

Watkins, M., Lean, G., & Noble, G. (2015): Multicultural education: the state of play from an Australian perspective. Race Ethnicity and Education, DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2015.1013929.

This article discusses key findings from a survey of more than 5,000 government school teachers in New South Wales on issues of multicultural and English as a Second Language (ESL) education. The findings illustrate the (often) untapped cultural and linguistic diversity of teachers and shows how their pre-service training and subsequent professional learning in the broad area of multicultural education requires further development in order to achieve relevant goals such as fostering intercultural understanding.    

Casinader, N. (2015): Transnationalism in the Australian Curriculum: new horizons or destinations of the past? Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2015.1023701.

This article argues that the Australian Curriculum does not go far enough in preparing students for transnational contexts, despite the positive inclusion of the Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia cross-curriculum priority and Intercultural understanding general capability.

Read the May edition of research & policy updates for more.