Educational Leadership and Indigeneity: Doing Things the Same, Differently
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Educational leadership, it is argued, must play a critical role in improving student outcomes, especially those of minoritized and Indigenous students. In the process of improving education and schooling for Indigenous students, Indigenous educational leadership needs to be considered alongside educational leadership more generally. This article focuses on a particular Indigenous landscape—Māori—and examines tensions relating to a project about educational leadership linked with desired student outcomes. The tensions are located in identifying generic aspects of educational leadership in relation to desired student outcomes on the one hand and ensuring that distinctive features of Māori leadership are recognized on the other. Indigeneity is identified as a space in which such ongoing tensions can be addressed and in which what is wanted from Māori educational leadership can be examined and established.
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There is an inherent difficulty in comparing education leadership approaches when the colonial-based education system is generally predicated on individualism, while Indigenous knowledge systems are grounded in relationality.
“There is an inherent difficulty in comparing education leadership approaches when the colonial-based education system is generally predicated on individualism, while Indigenous knowledge systems are grounded in relationality (Hohepa, 2013; Khalifa et al., 2019).”
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- Authors
- Hohepa (Ngāpuhi), M. K.
- Venue
- American Journal of Education
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2013-08
- Volume
- 119
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 617-631
- ISSN
- 0195-6744 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-6511
- OpenAlex
- W2018596082
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 22
- Citations by year
- 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 6 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5
- FWCI
- 3.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Education (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Social Sciences › Education › Educational Leadership and Practices
- Social Sciences › Education › Indigenous and Place-Based Education
- Keywords
- educational leadership, indigeneity, Māori, Indigenous students, student outcomes, minoritized students, indigenous leadership, cultural distinctiveness
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