Stabilising and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities

Title
Stabilising and sustaining Indigenous leadership in Australian universities
Publication Date
2020-10-05
Author(s)
Anderson, Peter J
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2491-4205
Email: pander42@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:pander42
Diamond, Zane M
Editor
Editor(s): Peter J Anderson, Koji Maeda, Zane M Diamond and Chizu Sato
Type of document
Book Chapter
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
Abingdon, United Kingdom
Edition
1
DOI
10.4324/9780429400834-12
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/71158
Abstract

This chapter examines the impact of UNDRIP on supporting the acceleration of Indigenous participation in Australia’s universities. We problematise the concept of the leadership pipeline for accelerating employment of Indigenous people in Australia’s universities, exploring senior leadership and professional and academic roles in Australian universities from the perspective of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees. We argue that conventional organisational approaches practised by universities that assume a proper functioning ‘pipeline’ are unable to achieve the espoused Australian government targets for Indigenous employment growth to parity. More important, such approaches fall short of ever being able to address the aspirations of Indigenous People because the required institutional reforms envisaged by such mechanisms as UNDRIP cannot be achieved by the traditional pipeline approach. This chapter canvasses a number of key elements that will allow a more detailed examination of how quickly an Indigenous university cohort can develop for the purpose of accelerating Indigenous leadership in Australian universities.

Link
Citation
Post-Imperial Perspectives on Indigenous Education: Lessons from Japan and Australia, p. 186-208
ISBN
9780367001957
9780367553074
9780429400834
Start page
186
End page
208

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