ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the importance of finding out about Indigenous worldviews and perspectives and leading staff to interrogate their own worldviews, biases and stereotypes, describes how to embed Indigenous perspectives and understand the importance of doing so through respectful relationships and partnerships and builds cultural competence and use thoughtful ways of removing bias and racism. The chapter creates culturally safe and secure places for Indigenous children, families and staff and strengthens intercultural leadership in ways that improve Indigenous and non-Indigenous educational outcomes. Early childhood leaders know that the needs of Indigenous children and families cannot be viewed in isolation from the context of their extended family, their communities and their culture. Indigenous worldviews are relationship-focused and Country-centric. Embedding Indigenous perspectives so they become an integral part of the organisation’s philosophy and practice is an early childhood leadership task in many nations across the world.
