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Professional Identity, Adaptation and the Self: Cases of New Zealand School Principals during a Time of Change
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Notman, Ross – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
There is developing interest in how professional identity can support educational leaders' management of change. This article explores the conceptualisation and interplay of identity formation with adaptive and contingent forms of educational leadership. The article draws on qualitative data obtained from two New Zealand school principals and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Principals, Educational Administration
Critical Challenges and Dilemmas for Catholic Education Leadership Internationally
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Gleeson, Jim – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2015
This paper considers the challenges faced by contemporary Catholic Education systems with particular reference to the contrast between the prevailing neo-liberal agenda and gospel values. It explicates this contrast from the perspectives of current critiques of the influence of the new manageralism in education and relevant literature on Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Leadership Effectiveness, Educational Administration, Barriers
The Value Bases of Administrative Action.
Hodgkinson, Christopher – 1986
This paper proposes a method for understanding the relationships among the various value systems that underlie administrative thinking. The system takes into account the psychological faculties affecting ethical decisions, the philosophical orientations involved, and distinctions between the concepts of "right" and "good." The paper opens with…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrative Principles, Administrator Attitudes, Educational Administration
Philosophy and the Study of Educational Administration.
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Willower, Donald J. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1985
Criteria are set forth for a philosophy that could contribute to advancement in educational administration. Three broad areas are covered: (1) the ideas and methods of educational administration; (2) communication and verification in the field; and (3) values and the normative side of education. (TE)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles
Beyond Professionalisation: Enhancing the Governance Culture for Australian University Governing Boards
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Baird, Jeanette – Tertiary Education and Management, 2006
This article examines emerging norms of good practice for Australian university governing boards and issues that university governing boards could address to develop effective governance cultures. It firstly considers the ways in which support for many Australian university governing boards has become professionalised over the past decade. At the…
Descriptors: Governing Boards, Organizational Culture, Governance, Universities
Representing Organization Theory with a Human Face: The Search for a Human and Humane Understanding of Administration.
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