New Teacher Resource on Truth-Telling
I’m excited to share this interview and teacher resource for the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE) You Can Teach That: Teaching First Nations Perspectives series! In the interview, I discuss the connection between truth-telling commissions, including the Yoorrook Justice Commission, and education. The accompanying teacher resource includes activities, prompts, lesson ideas and external links designed to interrogate and embed the concepts, ideas, questions, themes and knowledge presented in the video. Visit the You Can Teach That website for the full series including brilliant videos and resources from First Nations scholars and leaders !
Keep readingPanel Discussion: Truth-Telling, Redress and Reconciliation in Education: Global Perspectives, 26 June
Registrations Open! Join panellists Dr. Matthew R. Keynes, James Miles, Anna Clark, Lucy Jongebloed, and Aleryk Fricker for a discussion of the ‘big questions’ raised in the growing relationship between historical justice and education. How can education reckon with and work to repair historical injustices? How does truth-telling and redress challenge the purposes of history, humanities, and social studies education? How should teachers, students and researchers in this field navigate questions around complicity, responsibility, and justice? We will consider these questions in comparative transnational contexts including Australia, Canada, South Africa, the Nordic countries and more, building upon ideas Matt and James explore in their new book Education…
Keep readingHey History! Podcast
Matthew was recently interviewed about truth-telling in Australian history education, his submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, and his research into truth-telling commissions in Australia and overseas, for the Hey History! kids podcast. ➡️Stay tuned for new episodes soon, for kids and teachers! https://lnkd.in/ggDBJ5MV
Keep readingTruth Commissions and Education in Global Perspective
This month, I’m delighted to be hosting a series of workshops with leading experts on Truth Commissions and Education in Global Perspective. Comparative research is vital to bring specific challenges into sharper perspective, as well as to draw out similar and shared experiences. Education is of vital concern in truth commission (TC) processes and their aftermath. TCs increasingly investigate systemic wrongdoings produced through and within educational institutions, as well as make recommendations for education reform as key pillars of peacebuilding and social transformation. While TCs are limited and finite processes, education is often imagined as the domain where longer-term impact…
Keep readingInterview with Umeå University about research visit
What could your collaboration lead to? I hope it leads to development of an international evidence-base about the teaching of Indigenous and minoritised histories in settler colonial contexts and deepens opportunities to share and showcase teacher practice and innovation in this space. Read the full interview here (scroll down for English).
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