Reconciliation education
Reconciliation educationis a teaching-learning framework for improving participants' attitudes toward other groups of people, developed in Australia by Adam Heaton.
Background
[edit]The termreconciliationrelates to race relations in this context, as used in various countries around the world, including Australia.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Reconciliation education was developed by Adam Paul Heaton based on findings from his 2014PhDstudy.[7][8][9]The study found that as Australian Grade 8 students engaged in a positive discourse aboutAboriginal Australians,they developed more positive attitudes toward the other group.[10]
Description
[edit]The educational framework is aimed at improving attitudes and relationships among different groups of people.[7][11]The other group may possess characteristics diverse from participants' own, such as a differentethnicity,religionor political affiliation.[12]Participants engage in awareness-raising,truth-telling,perspective-taking, imagination andempathyas they consider a positivediscoursedesigned to counter negative andprejudicedattitudes toward the group (see Figure 1).[13][14]
Points of commonality exist withallophilia[12]and reconciliation.[15][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"About Us".Reconciliation Australia.Retrieved11 October2021.
- ^Mulholland, Malcolm (11 May 2016)."New Zealand's indigenous reconciliation efforts show having a treaty isn't enough".The Conversation.Retrieved11 October2021.
- ^Sullivan, Ann (2016). "The politics of reconciliation in New Zealand".Political Science.68(2). Informa UK Limited: 124–142.doi:10.1177/0032318716676290.ISSN0032-3187.S2CID151660268.
- ^"Home page".Reconciliation Canada.Retrieved11 October2021.
- ^Maddison, Sarah (16 May 2016)."Indigenous reconciliation in the US shows how sovereignty and constitutional recognition work together".The Conversation.Retrieved11 October2021.
- ^Brzozowski, Alexandra (7 April 2021)."Nordic countries set up Sámi reconciliation commissions to investigate indigenous injustices".www.euractiv.com.Retrieved11 October2021.
- ^abNational Library of Australia (2013).""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school / Adam Paul Heaton ".Trove.Retrieved24 July2020.
- ^North Queensland Register (14 October 2014)."Positive results for anti-racism curriculum".Retrieved24 July2020.
- ^News24 (17 October 2014)."Government not serious about racism – Aus teacher".Retrieved24 July2020.
{{cite news}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^Heaton, Adam (2018)."Kids can show prejudice and teachers can show them another path"(PDF).Issues in Educational Research.28(4): 940–954.Retrieved17 July2020.
- ^Charles Darwin University (December 2013).""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school ".Charles Darwin University.Retrieved24 July2020.
- ^abPittinsky, Todd (2013)."Allophilia—a new framework for understanding effective intergroup leadership".Center for Public Leadership.Archived fromthe originalon 20 June 2013.Retrieved24 July2020.
- ^Heaton, Adam (2020)."Closing the gap between 'us' and 'them': The role of perspective taking and empathy in Reconciliation Education. International Journal of Arts and Social Science, 3(4), 52-8"(PDF).Retrieved17 July2020.
- ^Heaton, Adam (2020)."Reconciliation Education: A new conceptual framework for interrupting prejudices and developing positive inter-group perspectives. International Journal of Education Humanities and Social Science, 3(2), 223-227"(PDF).Retrieved17 July2020.
- ^"Let's Bust Some Myths".Reconciliation Australia.2018.
- ^Heaton, Adam (2020)."Combatting racism to create a better Australia: the potential of the national cross-curriculum priority of teaching Aboriginal histories and cultures".Australian Aboriginal Studies(1).Retrieved17 July2020– viaAIATSIS.