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National Reconciliation Week 2020

National Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May to 3 June, and offers a great opportunity to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their cultures. It also prompts us to consider some of the landmark events in the ongoing process of reconciliation. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey— the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.

The theme of National Reconciliation Week 2020 is In this together.
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia. Reconciliation must live in the hearts, minds and actions of all Australians as we move forward, creating a nation strengthened by respectful relationships between the wider Australian community, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Make reconciliation part of your story, and your future.

Our History urges us to consider the consequences of Australian laws, practices and policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. It seeks a commitment to ensure that past wrongs are not repeated.

Our Story is about the importance of the struggle for reconciliation in Australian history and identity. It recounts the 'trauma and triumph told by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples'*.

Our Future emphasises the need for all Australians to share a genuine commitment to reconciliation and the principles of fairness and diversity.

*National Reconciliation Week website http://www.reconciliation.org.au/nrw/what-is-nrw/


Recently, Reconciliation Australia also oversaw the Recognise campaign, promoting greater awareness of, and support for constitutional recognition of Australia’s First Peoples.  We continue to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups, communities and individuals to see constitutional and legislative reform based on the recommendations of the Uluru Statement from the Heart. Reconciliation can no longer be seen as a single issue or agenda and the contemporary definition of reconciliation must weave all of these threads together. 


Indigenous Education Resources

NSW DoE Aboriginal Education and Training Policy

NSW DoE Reconciliation Action Plan (2019)

The Aboriginal 8 Ways of Learning Pedagogy

Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Perspectives in schools

Creative Spirits - Indigenous history, culture, language, spirituality and identity

Australian Indigenous Education Foundation

21st Century Learning - Aboriginal Studies

The world's oldest observatory? How Aboriginal astronomy provides clues to ancient life

The passions of an Aboriginal astronomy guide.

DNA confirms Aboriginal people have a long-lasting connection to country

DNA confirms Aboriginal culture one of Earth's oldest

The Guardian - Indigenous Australians most ancient civilisation on Earth, DNA study confirms

ABC - Program aims to teach history of Stolen Generations, seeks to close knowledge gap

The Healing Foundation - Stolen Generations Resource Kit for Teachers and Students

​Teach Indigenous Knowledge and Culture

SBS - My Grandmother's Lingo - Learning the endangered Marra language


Tjinari - Ngaanyatjarra Aboriginal language video game
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-06/first-australian-indigenous-language-video-game-in-development/7907414

https://www.okgames.com.au/news/worlds-first-indigenous-language-game-helps-keep-dying-language-alive/


Australian Bureau of Statistics   - Education and Indigenous Wellbeing

AITSL - Improving teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education

Australia Day/Invasion Day Teaching Resources
https://teachik.com/australia-day-invasion-day/

COAG - Closing the Gap in Indigenous Disadvantage
https://www.coag.gov.au/closing_the_gap_in_indigenous_disadvantage

NSW Board of Studies - Aboriginal Educational Contexts
http://ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/

NSW Board of Studies - Aboriginal English
http://ab-ed.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/aboriginal-english

NSW State Library Australian Indigenous Index
http://library.sl.nsw.gov.au:1084/search/

What Works. The Work Program - Improving outcomes for Aboriginal Students
http://www.whatworks.edu.au/dbAction.do?cmd=homePage

Deadly Vibe eMagazine - also has classroom activities
http://www.deadlyvibe.com.au/

Understanding Aboriginal English
http://splash.abc.net.au/media/-/m/1453700/null

Aboriginal English
http://clas.mq.edu.au/australian-voices/aboriginal-english

The Deadly Ways to Learn Project - Aboriginal English and bidialectal classroom practices
http://www.whatworks.edu.au/4_2_1.htm

Identity Mapping
​https://teachik.com/identity-mapping/

Close the Gap: Indigenous Health Campaign - Australian Human Rights Commission
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/close-gap-indigenous-health-campaign

Close the Gap - Oxfam
https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/indigenous-australia/close-the-gap/

National Close the Gap Day
https://my.oxfam.org.au/ctg/

ACER Indigenous Education
http://www.acer.edu.au/research/indigenous-education

NSW Aborginal Education Council
http://www.aec.org.au/

Reconciliation Australia
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/

Supporting Aboriginal students’ literacy learning

Aboriginal students: Cultural insights for teaching literacy

Cultural Insights Video

Supporting Aboriginal Students Further Information

Reconciliation Week - held May/June each year
http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/reconciliationweek

Indigenous Education Projects
http://www.ieprojects.org.au/

UWS  Badanami Centre for Indigenous Education
http://www.uws.edu.au/badanami/badanami_centre_for_indigenous_education

UTS Jumbunna- Indigenous House of Learning
http://www.jumbunna.uts.edu.au/

The Koori History Website
http://www.kooriweb.org/foley/indexb.html

Aboriginal Australia
http://www.aboriginalaustralia.com/

National Sorry Day Committee
http://www.nsdc.org.au/

Australian Human Rights Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
https://www.humanrights.gov.au/our-work/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-social-justice

Sea of Hands YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/seaofhands

Australian Museum - Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney
http://australianmuseum.net.au/Aboriginal-People-of-Coastal-Sydney/

SBS First Australians
http://www.sbs.com.au/firstaustralians/

Bush Mechanics
http://www.bushmechanics.com/home.htm

Dust Echoes Dreaming
http://www.abc.net.au/dustechoes/dustEchoesFlash.htm

The Memory Code: how oral cultures memorise so much information
https://theconversation.com/the-memory-code-how-oral-cultures-memorise-so-much-information-65649

Can racism ever be casual?
http://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2016/10/11/can-racism-ever-be-casual


White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack - Peggy McIntosh (Written for U.S. context but easily applied to Australian context)


White Australia Has a Black History


Indigenous Poetry Workshop
bookfest_session_8_-_indigenous_storytelling_poetry_object_resource.pdf
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ABC Splash - Understanding Aboriginal English
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AADES. (2014). Aboriginal Education [Image]. AADES. Indigenous Education. Aades.edu.au. Retrieved from http://www.aades.edu.au/?portfolio=indigenous-education

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