Juggling educational ends: Non-Indigenous Yukon principals and the policy challenges that they face

dc.creator	Simon Blakesley
dc.date	2012-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:05:49Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:05:49Z
dc.identifier	1555-5062
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/fc222d6149b2465ea5a6723178c984e7
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/10059
dc.identifier.uri	https://doaj.org/article/fc222d6149b2465ea5a6723178c984e7
dc.description	This article reports on a 2008 study of non-indigenous principals working in indigenous Yukon contexts. It examines the policy contexts in which Yukon principals are embedded, giving attention to how they address the tensions that exist as a result of operating at the intersections of multiple policy levels. The application of critical ethnography generates the opportunity to reveal and examine the tensions, distinctions, and contradictions underpinning their practice. The principals identify fragmented curricular policy; the competition between instructional time, mandated external curricula, and locally developed curricula; and field trip and hiring policies as being problematic. The principals also describe how they cope with the challenges and tensions that arise as a result of being responsible and accountable to balance competing educational ends, to the satisfaction of multiple external levels of control. The study calls for a re-evaluation of the deployment of externally mandated curricula in the Yukon.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Simon Fraser University, George Mason University
dc.relation	http://journals.sfu.ca/ijepl/index.php/ijepl/issue/view/62
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1555-5062
dc.source	International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, Vol 7, Iss 3 (2012)
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	yukon
dc.subject	non-indigenous
dc.subject	policy
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Juggling educational ends: Non-Indigenous Yukon principals and the policy challenges that they face
dc.type	Article