Rethinking Leadership Research in Teacher Education for High-Poverty Schools in New Zealand

• In Event: Building Infrastructure and Capacity for Research Innovations Worldwide on Professional Development That Prepares Teachers for 21st-Century Schools That Serve Marginalized and Poor Students in Transnational Contexts (Sponsored by the World Education Research Association)

Abstract

This presenter reports on research concerning Indigenous urban school leadership through a critical cross-cultural comparative analysis of educational leaders in New Zealand and the United States. The presenter reports on research that considers the possibilities and affordances of building infrastructures and capacity through an indigenous led, international, inter-institutional higher education initiative in order to optimize Māori students’ academic achievement.

Author

• Lorri Michelle Johnson Santamaria, The University of Auckland