Experiential Learning

Inter Cultural Education (ICE) is a Hong Kong social enterprise aiming to promote global awareness and mutual understanding of people from different cultural background through face-to-face interaction.

Even as the world becomes closer through international trade and cheaper flights, we are seeing a huge spike in xenophobic behaviour, racism and discrimination against the minorities. The economy may have benefitted immensely from globalisation but many people are not equipped with the skills and knowledge to live in this new era. We believe that by connecting people across different cultures and backgrounds, we can foster a deeper understanding through intercultural interaction and make the world a better and more peaceful place for our future generations. ICE has worked with more than 112 institutions and impacted more than 39,255 students. ICE has recently worked with Ocean Park and Cathay Pacific on a Sustainable Development Programme.

Objectives

• Support new programme initiatives design and assist in developing and implementing cross-cultural lessons series for local students
• Create lesson plans and agendas to ensure lessons are done interactively with a database of over 1,000 international volunteers
• Conduct project evaluation (quantitative and qualitative)
• Work with people from more than 10 nationalities

Project Details

• For participating students who are interested in gaining experience on stage, ICE will train them as co-trainers, potentially allowing them to be the main trainers of the lesson if they are confident enough.
• If students are more interested in content development, they will observe ICE’s projects first and either improve/create new lesson plans according to the demand of the customers.