This riveting talk dealt with her perspectives on Reconciliation, social justice and the teaching of English. In looking at where we are in the Reconciliation process, Zane drew on the work of Fishman with eight stages of Reconciliation consciousness and suggested that we are between stages four and five. Only a few people speak about reconciliation. The language of Reconciliation is in the private domain. The language is in the public domain.
Reconciliation is alive in the community.
A good understanding of Reconciliation is part of education. Reconciliation is good business. Reconciliation is government policy. Reconciliation is fully enacted in private and public life. Zane represented her thinking about Reconciliation from a teaching perspective graphically with concentric circles beginning with internal awareness in the middle, then pedagogical approaches, then curriculum formation.