The fourth 'r' in schools: reconciliation in education

Australian Community Media

For more than five years, Noongar language teacher Sharon Gregory has been working with students - and teachers - at the school in Beaconsfield, southern Western Australia, on Noongar boodja (country). Video courtesy: AAP

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00:00 Why is reconciliation important?

00:02 That's the million dollar question because it's everything and it starts with all of

00:07 us walking together.

00:08 I think that's really important for us to do.

00:10 I guess it's just bringing to the lens the importance of teaching anti-racism and starting

00:17 right from a young age, so right from kindy all the way through to our year sixes.

00:22 Sharing the language now is about connecting.

00:27 Us reconnecting back to country.

00:29 Children are taking language into their homes and teaching their parents, their grandparents,

00:34 aunties and uncles.

00:35 It's about healing.

00:38 Healing and healing to me is through language.

00:40 [Music]

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