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- Title
The context behind the context: A Pacific leadership research tok stori.
- Authors
Sanga, Kabini; Johansson-Fua, Seu'ula; Reynolds, Martyn; Fa'avae, David; Robyns, Richard; Rohoana, Grace; Hiele, Graham; Jim, Danny; Case, Lorreta Joseph; Malachi, Demetria
- Abstract
This article takes a relational approach to Pacific leadership by presenting three layers of discussion. First, we provide findings from our research team members about the relationships between the Pacific community and school leaders' understandings of leadership. We include accounts of how leaders negotiate in context between forms of leadership from different domains. Second, we reflexively probe ideas of relationality, distance and closeness in leadership research by considering researchers' experiences of the research process. Third, we show how Indigenous oracies such as tok stori can provide space and opportunity to rethink leadership as the ethical negotiation of positionality tensions. The overall findings centre relationships as a key concern of leadership practice and research, and discussion of Pacific-origin ideas of leadership, activities where the relational context behind the context is ignored at one's peril.
- Subjects
MARSHALL Islands; SOLOMON Islands; TONGA; LEADERSHIP ethics; LEADERSHIP; SCHOOL administrators; TEAMS in the workplace; CIVIC leaders; COMMUNITY schools; EDUCATIONAL leadership
- Publication
International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2022, Vol 21, Issue 2, p5
- ISSN
1443-1475
- Publication type
Article