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School of Psychological Science

Enhancing Relationships in School (ERIS)
Creating Culturally Respectful Primary Schools:
Enhancing Relationships through Strategic Professional Learning

Australia’s increasing cultural diversity promises many benefits but also creates significant challenges, including the potential for conflict that reduces social cohesion. Schools are keys to the benefits of diversity.
In 2007 to 2009 the ERIS project is investigating an innovative approach to assisting primary school teachers to create a school culture and curriculum through which children:
respect and value cultural diversity and
address constructively interpersonal and inter-group differences.
Schools are offered sustained professional development, with emphasis on support for a core team who will oversee implementation and maintenance of school changes.


ERIS researchers and partners

The ERIS project is a joint initiative of researchers in the School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, and the Faculty of Education and Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood at the University of Melbourne.

Our partners include

  • - Australian Psychological Society
  • - Psychologists for Peace interest group of the Australian Psychological Society
  • - Scanlon Foundation
  • - Morawetz Social Justice Fund
  • - Catholic Education Office
  • - Haig St. Primary School, Heidelberg
  • - St. Anthony’s Primary School, Alphington

A new round of the ERIS project began at the start of 2008.
 

ERIS materials for primary schools
Full conflict resolution model
pdf [28k]		 ERIS 2 minute model
pdf [72k]
ERIS 2 minute model plus scripts
pdf [104k]		 ERIS conflict skills ladder
pdf [52k]


ERIS Project Team
Eleanor H Wertheim, Professor, School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University
e.wertheim@latrobe.edu.au
Elizabeth Freeman, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
l.freeman@unimelb.edu.au
Glenda MacNaughton, Professor, Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne
gmmacn@unimelb.edu.au,
Ann Sanson, Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, the University of Melbourne,
annvs@unimelb.edu.au
Margot Trinder, Project Manager, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne,
trinderm@unimelb.edu.au


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