Educational Leadership and Indigeneity: Doing Things the Same, Differently

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Indigenous refusals in educational leadership practices in Canadian universities

“…The need to be critical highlights the problems with the dominance of colonialism and westernized, individualistic and hierarchical conceptions of leadership which can easily co-opted and internalized. Maori scholar Margie Hohepa (2013) has similarly called for Indigenous educational leaders to critically Indigenize their leadership, while Hohepa asserts the need for Indigenous leaders to draw from a range of different leadership methods but to do so c ritically and cautiously and from within their Indigeneity . She also emphasizes the need to, carefully and continually, engage with critical self-reflexivity in relation to ongoing forms of settler colonialism in dominant educational environments.…”