Media advisory - Educators honour truth & reconciliation

OTTAWA, May 28, 2015 /CNW/ - Assembly of First Nations Chief Perry Bellegarde joins educators at a gathering held in advance of the release of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission Report. At 2:00 pm on May 30^th 2015, Chief Bellegarde and Indigenous education experts will convene in Lamoureux Hall Room 122 on the University of Ottawa campus at a panel discussion on progress and challenges in Indigenous education. TRC Commissioner Marie Wilson will be on hand to convey the recommendations for education from the TRC's final report.

Panel members include leading Aboriginal education scholars from across Canada, including Marie Battiste, Jean-Paul Restoule, Laara Fitznor, and Jan Hare. The panel revisits the Accord on Indigenous Education, written in 2010 by the Association of Canadian Deans of Education (http://www.csse-scee.ca/docs/acde/acde_accord_indigenousresearch_en.pdf). The Accord offers guiding principles for advancing Indigenous education in Canada.

The panel is sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE). CSSE President Don Klinger notes "Current and future teachers have an important responsibility in building the kinds of awareness, knowledge, and sense of responsiveness that Canadian society needs." Klinger believes that facing colonialism and colonization with clear eyes will help all Ca­nadians to build relationships of respect and accountability.

Canada's largest annual gathering of education experts is happening in Ottawa from May 30^th to June 3^rd. The annual conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) takes place at the Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa. CSSE is the largest organization of professors, students, researchers and practitioners in education in Canada. It is the major national voice for those who create educational knowledge, prepare teachers and educational leaders, and apply research in the schools, classrooms, and educational institutions of Canada.

SOURCE Canadian Society for the Study of Education

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Katy Ellsworth, CSSE Communications Manager, TEL: [phone], EMAIL: [email protected]