Indigenous Australian women’s leadership: stayin’ strong against the post‐colonial tide

Kadin Yöneti̇ci̇ler İçi̇n Farkli Kültürlerde Kalip Yargilr Ve Engeller

“…Contrary to previous years, sharp increase have been appeared about women leaders between the years of 2004-2010 most of which were co relational such as conflict and role discontinuity between principalship and teaching, parental and professional role conflict, job satisfaction and dissatisfaction in their career, more task baseddetailed researches of women leaders' superior position such as premature departure of genders, classroom and discipline management from a gender perspective, shared leadership practices, secondary head teachers' views over time, male role models, the entire appointments process, incongruence level within the masculine discourse, and ethnographic, cultural and indigenous studies such as socio-cultural systems of educational leadership, indigenous women leaders to authenticate and legitimate leadership realities in the cultural spaces, religio-spirituality of black principals. These are different from earlier studies which were more general topics simply underlining the cause of women minority in management role from feminist perspective (Chan, 2004;Krüger, Eck and Vermeulen, 2005;Loder and Spillane, 2005;Leathwood, 2005;Çelikten, 2005;Bradbury and Gunter, 2006;Oplatka and Atias, 2007;Court, 2007;Ducklin and Ozga, 2007;Priola, 2007;Thompson, 2007;Bradbury, 2007;Fealy and Harford, 2007;Coleman, 2007;Cushman, 2008;Oplatka and Mimon, 2008;Grummell, Devine, and Lynch, 2009;Isaac, Behar-Horenstein and Koro-Ljungberg, 2009;Neale and Özkanlı, 2010;Sperandio, 2011;Shah, 2010;Fitzgerald, 2010;White, 2010;Coronel, Moreno and Carrasco, 2010;Sherman and Beaty, 2010;Fuller, 2010;Witherspoon and Taylor, 2010;Strachan, Akao, Kilavanwa, and Warsal, 2010).…”

“…Qualitative research designs have widely been preferred that are case studies (Rigg and Trehan, 1999;Court, 2007;Grummell, Devine, and Lynch, 2009;Coronel, Moreno and Carrasco, 2010;Witherspoon and Taylor, 2010) and ethnographic study of education and leadership (Thompson, 2007;White, 2010;Fitzgerald, 2010) were mostly conducted within years. Limited numbers of the studies conducted quantitatively (Prichard and Deem, 1999;Krüger, Eck and Vermeulen, 2005;Cushman, 2008;Sperandio, 2011) while testing their hypothesis.…”

A feminist critical perspective on educational leadership

“…Recognition of religious and/or cultural differences means leadership takes on different forms when situated within specific cultural contexts. These may be indigenous communities (Ahnee-Benham, 2003;White, 2010), in a traditional or religious state (Mabokela, 2007;Shah, 2010) or in white dominated organizations where the hybridity, such as that of an Asian-American woman, is not the norm (Asher, 2010). How leadership is shaped and practiced is therefore highly contextualized.…”

“…White feminists have been prompted as to their whiteness and privilege by black and post-colonial feminists who have pointed to how they as white women are complicit in hierarchies of inequality. Indeed, they too can learn about alternative ways of being leaders and understanding leadership from different cultural perspectives (Mabokela, 2007;Mirza, 2009;Shah, 2010;White, 2010;See special issue IJLE 2010). Yet, how gender/culture/religion/class interact is not a major issue in the mainstream educational leadership literature (Blackmore, 2010b).…”

Women Leadershipon Public Institution in Muslim Minority Society of West Papua

“…Maintaining local culture and wisdom can help develop the region itself because with so many local cultures and wisdom people will be interested in visiting the area. This can increase financial income for the region (White, N., 2010).Even the traditions of Kokoda, Arandai, and Moi in West Papua place women Ismail SuardiWekke and IbrahimIbrahim as a highly respected figure, not only as a mother but even a reference to big family decisions.In West Papua, review of women's involvementis still limited to the struggle for education (Wekke, 2013).…”