Abstract:
Minimbah Aboriginal Preschool, Armidale, is expanding into Primary schooling. Since the preschool was handed back to Aboriginal management ten years ago, leadership strategies have become Indigenised. Minimbah's success in educational outcomes for children (Dunn, 1997) is recognised, as are its home-school-community links (Watson and Roberts, 1996). Staff and management are collaborating with UNE's early childhood program, in a series of action research workshops, to document and analyse Minimbah's effective Indigenous leadership strategies as a model for leadership development, to make research count and to devolve power in a climate of growth and change. This paper is a joint progress report.