Date of Submission

4-15-2024

Document Type

OIP

Degree

Doctor of Education

Department

Education

Keywords

curriculum, decolonization, postsecondary education, Indigenous, leadership, skilled learning

Abstract

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (2015) Calls to Action have awoken Canadian society to the reconciliation. Although there is a growing body of knowledge on the individual topics of Indigenous education, knowledge, and leadership, there is relatively little research bringing together these topics in curriculum development practices in a postsecondary education skilled learning context. My problem of practice (PoP) is one that strives to address a low enrolment of Indigenous adult learners and lower positive outcomes from skilled training programs. Situating this problem from my perspectives as a Canadian-born visible minority Settler on Turtle Island and postsecondary education leader at Prairie Tradespersons Association (a pseudonym), this organizational improvement plan (OIP) presents and analyzes the problem through the lens of Indigenous education, knowledge, and leadership perspectives as both an organizational leadership challenge and an opportunity for reconciliation. The problem also lies at the intersection of social justice and equity, diversity, inclusiveness, and decolonization. Further complicating the problem are its adult education, socioeconomic, and even geographic barriers. After discussing my leadership approaches to change, and the merits of several alternative solutions, I focus on the planning and development required for the chosen solution and the organization’s anticipated future state. Based on linkages between research-based leadership approaches and organizational change theories, the final part of the planning brings together my proposed implementation, communication, and monitoring and evaluation plans, which form my OIP.

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