Indonesian and Dutch pupils know very little about each other and rarely have the opportunity to interact. However, the countries are mentioned in each other’s textbooks, particularly in history books. The Glitch Project aims to connect Indonesian and Dutch students, fostering awareness of each other’s cultures and perspectives on historical topics in a education program.
Global citizenship is about being part and aware of, and connected to the rest of the world. Students can play an active role in their own world. Your world starts at your own school. By working on Global Citizenship, you provide students with knowledge, attitudes and skills that will make them more internationally competent. It also contributes to diversity and multilingualism. It is instructive in all respects to have contact with students from a different culture. Indonesian and Dutch pupils know very little about each other and hardly come into contact with each other.
Yet the countries appear in each other’s textbooks. Especially in the history books. And more important; they share a common past. Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands for a long time under the name of the Dutch East Indies. It was not an equal relationship. Yet the coloniser and the colonised.
The Glitch project is an educational tool/program, in the context of global citizenship, to bring Indonesian and Dutch students (from 15 years old/ 3rd grade secondary school pilot target group) into contact with each other.
