<p>In the decade following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s multi-volume final report and <i>94 Calls to Action</i>, we have seen a nation-wide intensification of earlier educational policy reform around Indigenous perspectives, albeit unevenly across institutional spaces: science education is one of such spaces marked by paucity. In exploring the central question <i>Can there be a science education for reconciliation?</i>, this manuscript makes the case that in few instances in which reconciliation surfaces in science education, it deflects responsibility from addressing the TRC’s central yet more unsettling demands: directly addressing residential schools, their legacies, and their logics of settler colonialism. Thinking with Indigenous critiques of reconciliation and of science education, some lines of questioning are offered: <i>What is the science of residential schools? How do</i><i> thinking like a scientist and the logics of residential schools intersect? How might we continue </i>to <i>push reconciliation-as-inclusion further?</i></p>

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Can There be a Science Education for Reconciliation?: A Call for Unsettling “Virtually all Aspects” of Science Education

  • Marc Higgins

摘要

In the decade following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s multi-volume final report and 94 Calls to Action, we have seen a nation-wide intensification of earlier educational policy reform around Indigenous perspectives, albeit unevenly across institutional spaces: science education is one of such spaces marked by paucity. In exploring the central question Can there be a science education for reconciliation?, this manuscript makes the case that in few instances in which reconciliation surfaces in science education, it deflects responsibility from addressing the TRC’s central yet more unsettling demands: directly addressing residential schools, their legacies, and their logics of settler colonialism. Thinking with Indigenous critiques of reconciliation and of science education, some lines of questioning are offered: What is the science of residential schools? How do thinking like a scientist and the logics of residential schools intersect? How might we continue to push reconciliation-as-inclusion further?