Leadership and culture in northern schools: A summative report. Paper accepted for presentation to the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education
Acknowledgements We would like to thank the people of northern Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan who helped us with this research project. No matter what their roleparents, administrators, students, teachers, members of the community -they were always willing to share their stories. We hop...
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| Summary: | Acknowledgements We would like to thank the people of northern Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan who helped us with this research project. No matter what their roleparents, administrators, students, teachers, members of the community -they were always willing to share their stories. We hope that we have been as honest in our interpretations of their words. As we pledged not to reveal individual identities we cannot name them here, but they know who they are. We would also like to thank the graduate students who have worked with us on various parts of this project. These are: Amy Burns, Fernando Davalos, Angie Hart, Jill Koch, Christine Martineau, and Cassandra White. Of course, this research study would not have been possible without the funding we received from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Our program officer, Nouhad Hammad, has always been a great help and support, and has been willing to answer the most inane questions! Thank you all so much. and report stakeholder perceptions of effective leadership; and, to determine the extent to which stakeholders perceive the schools adapt to their specific cultural contexts. In this report we bring together a summary of those themes that emerged from and across the six case studies. We also present a reflective view of the study, grounding the findings within the cultures of northern Canada and within other culturally diverse contexts. 6 Context and Relationship to the Literature There is a growing body of literature that stresses the importance of leadership in providing quality education in Canadian schools serving predominantly Aboriginal 1 communities First Nations education must reflect the language, traditions, and culture of their communities and receive the resources necessary to ensure quality programming, and to ensure education attainment and foster the 'crucial skills for selfgovernance and economic self-reliance (RCAP, 1996, vol. 5, p. 3 North as we use it here refers to the area coterminous with the boreal forest ... |
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