Reconciliation education
Reconciliation education is a teaching-learning framework for improving participants' attitudes toward other groups of people, developed in Australia by Adam Heaton.
Background
[edit]The term reconciliation relates 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 2014 PhD study.[7][8][9] The study found that as Australian Grade 8 students engaged in a positive discourse about Aboriginal 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 different ethnicity, religion or political affiliation.[12] Participants engage in awareness-raising, truth-telling, perspective-taking, imagination and empathy as they consider a positive discourse designed to counter negative and prejudiced attitudes toward the group (see Figure 1).[13][14]
Points of commonality exist with allophilia[12] and reconciliation.[15][16]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "About Us". Reconciliation Australia. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ Mulholland, Malcolm (11 May 2016). "New Zealand's indigenous reconciliation efforts show having a treaty isn't enough". The Conversation. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ Sullivan, Ann (2016). "The politics of reconciliation in New Zealand". Political Science. 68 (2). Informa UK Limited: 124–142. doi:10.1177/0032318716676290. ISSN 0032-3187. S2CID 151660268.
- ^ "Home page". Reconciliation Canada. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ Maddison, Sarah (16 May 2016). "Indigenous reconciliation in the US shows how sovereignty and constitutional recognition work together". The Conversation. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ Brzozowski, Alexandra (7 April 2021). "Nordic countries set up Sámi reconciliation commissions to investigate indigenous injustices". www.euractiv.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
- ^ a b National Library of Australia (2013). ""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school / Adam Paul Heaton". Trove. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ North Queensland Register (14 October 2014). "Positive results for anti-racism curriculum". Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ News24 (17 October 2014). "Government not serious about racism – Aus teacher". Retrieved 24 July 2020.
{{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. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ Charles Darwin University (December 2013). ""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school". Charles Darwin University. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ a b Pittinsky, Todd (2013). "Allophilia—a new framework for understanding effective intergroup leadership". Center for Public Leadership. Archived from the original on 20 June 2013. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ 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). Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ 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). Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "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). Retrieved 17 July 2020 – via AIATSIS.