BC educational leadership research eJournal

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Alannah Earl Young

Alannah Earl Young is from the Cree/Anishnabe Nations in Manitoba. She is a counsellor and trainer with University of British Columbia's First Nations House of Learning in Vancouver since 1995. She has completed a graduate degree in the Faculty of Educational Studies with the Ts”Kel First Nations graduate program at the University of British Columbia. Her Master’s thesis is entitled Elders Teachings on Indigenous Leadership: Leadership is a Gift. Alannah's current work has been developing and delivering holistic programming that combines social justice approaches with reaffirming Indigenous Leadership and Sovereignty.

Elders Teachings on Indigenous Leadership: Leadership is a Gift.

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Dr. Rosalin Hanna

Dr. Rosalin Hanna is Nlha7kᰭx and is a member of Lytton First Nation, British Columbia. She completed her Education, Doctoral Degree, Curriculum and Instruction in 2005, and her Graduate Certificate in Non-Profit Management in 2003 at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hanna's dissertation research focused on the topic of the "Attainment of Doctoral Degree for American Indian and Alaska Native Women".

During her stay in Florida she was also employed at UCF as a Strength and Conditioning coach and as the second-ever female high school football coach at University High School. For her role as a Football coach she was given the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) high school professional of the year for United States in 2002.

Presently, Dr. Hanna is the University of British Columbia Aboriginal Student Services Coordinator at the First Nations House of Learning. [rosalinh@interchange.ubc.ca]

Attainment of Education to Advance Aboriginal Leaders

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Dr. Claudine Montes

Dr. Claudine Montes is of Southern Ute and Mexican descent and has been working in the field of Indigenous higher education for the past 15 years.  She earned her Bachelors in Communication and her Master’s of Education, (American Indian special interest), at San Francisco State University.  At the University of New Mexico she worked in Native American Studies as the tribal liaison and later at the College Enrichment Program as the Native American Program Coordinator.  From there she went on to the University of British Columbia to continue her education and earn a Doctorate in Educational Studies through the First Nations Ts’’kel Program. 

Leadership in Native American Higher Education: A call for a collective vision and contemporary warriors.

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Dr. Lee Brown

Dr. Lee Brown is the Faculty coordinator of the Indigenous Education Doctoral Program on the Faculty of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia where he wrote his thesis entitled: Making the Classroom a Healthy Place: The Develop of Affective Competency in Aboriginal Pedagogy.. He is the Co-author of the The Sacred Tree, an educational curriculum based in Aboriginal values and epistemology. Lee has also contributed to the Round Lake Native Healing Centre during the last twenty-six years in a number of capacities including clinical supervisor and currently as a cultural resource to the centre. He has been the keynote speaker at many conferences including the Awassis Education Conference held each year in Saskatoon.

Lee has developed a theory of holistic emotional education that is predicated upon six principles of emotional competency that arise out of his research in the area of affective education and learning. [flbrown@interchange.ubc.ca]

Four Qualities of Curricula that develop Native Leadership

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Core components for an Indigenous leadership program

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