Reconciliation education

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Figure 1: Reconciliation Education provides opportunity for participants to challenge prejudices and adopt more positive intergroup attitudes

Reconciliation education is a teaching-learning framework for improving participants' attitudes toward other groups of people, developed in Australia by Adam Heaton.

## Contents

* 1 Background
* 2 Description
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Background

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

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

* Reconciliation in Australia

## References

1. ↑ "About Us". https://www.reconciliation.org.au/about-us/.
2. ↑ Mulholland, Malcolm (11 May 2016). "New Zealand's indigenous reconciliation efforts show having a treaty isn't enough". http://theconversation.com/new-zealands-indigenous-reconciliation-efforts-show-having-a-treaty-isnt-enough-49890.
3. ↑ Sullivan, Ann (2016). "The politics of reconciliation in New Zealand". Political Science (Informa UK Limited) 68 (2): 124–142. doi:10.1177/0032318716676290. ISSN 0032-3187.
4. ↑ "Home page". https://reconciliationcanada.ca/.
5. ↑ Maddison, Sarah (16 May 2016). "Indigenous reconciliation in the US shows how sovereignty and constitutional recognition work together". http://theconversation.com/indigenous-reconciliation-in-the-us-shows-how-sovereignty-and-constitutional-recognition-work-together-54554.
6. ↑ Brzozowski, Alexandra (7 April 2021). "Nordic countries set up Sámi reconciliation commissions to investigate indigenous injustices". https://www.euractiv.com/section/arctic-agenda/news/nordic-countries-set-up-sami-reconciliation-commissions-to-investigate-indigenous-injustices/.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 National Library of Australia (2013). ""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school / Adam Paul Heaton.". https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/191561064.
8. ↑ North Queensland Register (14 October 2014). "Positive results for anti-racism curriculum". https://www.northqueenslandregister.com.au/story/3366979/positive-results-for-anti-racism-curriculum/#!.
9. ↑ News24 (17 October 2014). "Government not serious about racism – Aus teacher". https://www.news24.com/News24/Govt-not-serious-about-racism-Aus-teacher-20141017.
10. ↑ Heaton, Adam (2018). "Kids can show prejudice and teachers can show them another path". Issues in Educational Research 28 (4): 940–954. http://www.iier.org.au/iier28/heaton.pdf. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
11. ↑ Charles Darwin University (December 2013). ""I stopped to think" Aboriginal anti-racism pedagogy in middle school". https://researchers.cdu.edu.au/en/studentTheses/i-stopped-to-think-aboriginal-anti-racism-pedagogy-in-middle-scho.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Pittinsky, Todd (2013). "Allophilia—a new framework for understanding effective intergroup leadership". http://www.centerforpublicleadership.org/?option=com_content&task=emailform&id=267&itemid=2.
13. ↑ 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". http://www.ijassjournal.com/2020/V3I4/41465752101.pdf.
14. ↑ 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". https://ijehss.com/uploads2020/EHS_3_102.pdf.
15. ↑ "Let's Bust Some Myths". 2018. https://www.reconciliation.org.au/lets-bust-some-myths/.
16. ↑ 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). https://aiatsis.gov.au/publications/products/australian-aboriginal-studies-issue-1-2019. Retrieved 17 July 2020.

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