Providing Opportunities for Cross-cultural Involvement

Abstract

Mrs Fitzpatrick reports on a project funded under the Schools Commission Innovations Program. She is with the South Australian State Association of School Welfare Clubs, and was assisted in the co-ordination and supervision of the project by Mrs B. Tothill of the Northern Suburbs Association of School Welfare Clubs.

As this project involved providing experiences for a small number of people, over only a short period of time, it would seem to be presumptuous to draw conclusions on the subject of “Cross-Cultural Involvement”. The following report, therefore, is descriptive rather than assumptive. I have included comments on the scheme by people who were involved either deeply or peripherally and have tried to record facts only. This has been difficult in a scheme where emotions and affections played a big part, especially as in re-reading letters and reports written soon after the project took place, I find that most people saw it at that time as an enormous success.