"It's Almost like a White School Now": Racialised Complexities, Indigenous Representation and School Leadership

Autor/inn/en	Keddie, Amanda; Niesche, Richard
Titel	"It's Almost like a White School Now": Racialised Complexities, Indigenous Representation and School Leadership
Quelle	In: Critical Studies in Education, 53 (2012) 2, S.169-182 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1750-8487
DOI	10.1080/17508487.2012.672330
Schlagwörter	Race; Indigenous Populations; Racial Relations; School Personnel; Instructional Leadership; Principals; Whites; Middle Class; Rural Schools; Politics of Education; Racial Attitudes; Cultural Differences; Disadvantaged; Social Justice; Administrator Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rasse; Abstammung; Sinti und Roma; Schulpersonal; Instruction; Leadership; Bildung; Erziehung; Führung; Principal; Schulleiter; White; Weißer; Mittelschicht; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Rassenfrage; Kultureller Unterschied; Soziale Gerechtigkeit
Abstract	Drawing on a broader study that focused on examining principal leadership for equity and diversity, this paper presents the leadership experiences of "Jane", a White, middle-class principal of a rural Indigenous school. The paper highlights how Jane's leadership is inextricably shaped by her assumptions about race and the political dynamics and historical specificities of her school community. A central focus is on Jane's tendency to deploy culturally reductionist understandings of Indigeneity that position it as incompatible or incommensurable with White culture/western schooling. The paper argues the central imperative of a leadership that rejects these understandings and engages in a critical situational analysis of Indigenous politics, relations and experience. Such an analysis is presented as imperative to supporting representative justice in that it moves beyond merely according a voice to Indigenous people to a focus on better understanding, problematising and remedying the racial relations that contribute to Indigenous oppression. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10