Advancing Reconciliation in Higher Education: Insights from Student Affairs Professionals

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:45 am - Gold 1
  In Roundtable Session: Division J Section 6: Roundtable 2

Abstract

This session focuses on emerging doctoral research exploring the perspectives of Canadian student affairs professionals of understanding and mobilizing reconciliation and ethical relationality in their work. In the Canadian context, higher education institutions are increasingly adopting policy language surrounding reconciliation (Gardiner Milln, 2024; TRC, 2015), of which ethical relationality (Donald, 2012; Ermine, 2007) is a core component. Exploring conceptualizations of reconciliation and how these practice-oriented knowledges are aligned (or misaligned) with higher education policy alongside practices that uplift ethical relationality provides insight into how Canadian higher education postsecondary professionals move social imperatives from page to practice, attending to the national imperative of advancing truth and reconciliation within the contextual confines of Canadian higher education.

Author

• Danielle Gardiner Milln, University of Alberta