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Foster, William – 1983
Identifying the assumptions of the dominant, functionalist paradigm in considerations of educational administration as inadequate, this study proposes an alternative paradigm: a politics of schooling that can both describe administration and organization and contribute to the development of leadership as praxis. Criteria for an adequate theory of…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Educational Administration, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Greenfield, Thomas B. – 1986
The study of educational administration should continue its trend toward a qualitative interpretation of reality and abandon the positivistic, scientific approach of the last 25 years. Herbert Simon's work in 1945 set the field upon the path of accepting the assumptions of positivistic thought as the limits of scientific inquiry in administration,…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration, Educational Theories
Download full textHeverly, Mary Ann – 1991
Responding to the call for higher education to adopt a new paradigm in managing its administrative processes, an Institutional Research Office at Delaware County Community College (DCCC) in Pennsylvania made a two-year effort to use a Total Quality approach in its management. Total Quality Management is a Japanese movement based on the teachings…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Data Analysis, Formative Evaluation
Center for Education Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1987
This notebook contains 21 standards established by the Center for Educational Statistics (CES); CES legislation; and a description of the CES publication and publication review processes. The publication clearance procedures and the external advice and peer review policies are established by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Codification, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Zeigler, Harmon; And Others – 1983
A 3-year research project was conducted to compare the conflict management behavior of school superintendents and city managers, both of whom are professionally trained experts held accountable to lay legislatures. Chapter 1, "Professionalism and Responsiveness," addresses the inherent tension, in a democracy, between elected officials'…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrative Principles, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
Deffenbaugh, W.S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1922
The demand for Bulletin 1915 No. 44, School Administration in the smaller cities, having been so great that the supply was soon exhausted, and the demand for it still being great, a new-bulletin regarding the administration of schools in the smaller cities has been prepared. The information contained in it was collected by means of a…
Descriptors: School Administration, Urban Schools, Superintendents, Principals
