A Northern Canadian Indigenous Principal Responds to the Aspirations of Her Community

• In Event: Culturally Relevant Instruction in Indigenous Contexts: New Sites of Meaning

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the factors providing the impetus for change and processes fostering change towards a community’s aspirations for its education in a northern Canadian Aboriginal school. In particular it examines an Aboriginal principal’s role in initiating and leading this change. The impetus and process for change are examined through the critical lens of Aboriginal transformative praxis as exemplified in Kaupapa Maori theory.

Authors

• Brian Ellis Lewthwaite, James Cook University - Australia

• Velma Illasiak, Moose Kerr School