OP-ED: Why Canadians need two dramatic educational shifts to honour reconciliation

Author The Conversation
The relationship between schooling and the cultivation of citizens is well-documented. If we are committed to truth and reconciliation, we must recognize education’s ambivalent role.

Why It Matters

Reconciliation cannot be achieved through surface-level curriculum tweaks or token acknowledgments. Instead, it demands two transformative shifts: centering Indigenous knowledge systems and dismantling colonial structures embedded in educational institutions.

Who do we, as inhabitants of Turtle Island, or as Canadians, want to be in the era of reconciliation? We must recognize education’s ambivalent role.

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