Indigenous Women Administrators' Willful Work Restorying Universities: Indigenizing Policy Enactments in Canadian Universities

• In Event: 63.085 - MTCC Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: 63.085-10 - Decolonizing and Indigenizing the Academy to Honor Indigenous Approaches to Education

Abstract

In the context of growing calls to Indigenize universities in Canada, this paper will report on preliminary findings from a qualitative study that aims to understand the lived embodied experiences of Indigenous women administrators’ enacting Indigenizing policies. Taking an Indigenous story-based methodological approach, this research is deeply rooted in the author’s positionality as an Indigenous woman and university administrator as it draws on her experiences and epistemological lens to gather and make meaning of stories from herself and from up to 14 other Indigenous women administrators working in universities across Canada through “collaborative storying” processes (Bishop, 1996). Using an Indigenous feminist decolonizing theoretical lens, this research seeks to understand Indigenous women’s leadership and policy enactment experiences within Euro-Western universities.

Author

• Candace B. Brunette, University of Western Ontario