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A Call To Action: Indigenizing Curriculum Through Adaptive Leadership, Christie Rehmann Pettipas
A Call To Action: Indigenizing Curriculum Through Adaptive Leadership, Christie Rehmann Pettipas
The Dissertation in Practice at Western University
Since the release of the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada in 2015, the post-secondary sector has focused their attention on the indigenization of programming and practices with mixed results. This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) presents a possible solution to embed Indigenous knowledge and culture in a program offered at a large urban college in Canada.
Both decolonization theory and Schein’s cultural assessment (2017) are used to identify current values and structures that are barriers to the effective integration of Indigenous knowledge in course curriculum and teaching. Utilizing an adaptive leadership framework (Hefeitz, 1994, Northouse, …