In 1983, Burton Clark published a study that was to become a classic work on the organisation and government of higher education systems (Clark 1983). He constructed three "ideal types" of system--state system, market system and professional system, and summarised the way that national systems of higher education are dependent on the…

This guide presents a description of the standards and related skills school leaders must master and apply. Since every school leader needs a well-defined philosophy to make decisions, the guide emphasizes philosophical, performance, and ethical dimensions of school leadership. The book's 10 chapters address such issues as visionary leadership,…

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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…

There is a need to develop an interdisciplinary information base of publications related specifically to theory methodology and construction. Existing information sources focus primarily on the dissemination of ccompleted research project results. (Author/WM)

The major student personnel administrator is often the first university official to learn that effective educational management involves guiding physical and human resources into dynamic, organizational units which should attain their objectives to the satisfaction of those served and provide a sense of achievement for those rendering such…

A comparison of leadership theory and administrative theory will help to show whether there is a conflict for educational administrators between being a leader and being an administrator. Two definitions of leadership stress the importance of initiating activities within a group. In education, leadership necessitates decision-making within an…

A survey of randomly-selected Alabama principals sought to compare a theorist's model of educational administration with the actual model used by working principals. The 172 principals ranked the importance of 13 statements about administrative priorities drawn from the theoretical model, a three-part construct combining administrative processes,…

This report on the Tenth National Dissemination Conference of 1977 outlines the purposes of the conference and summarizes the present state of educational information dissemination. National programs are described, including the National Institute of Education State Capacity Building Program, the National Diffusion Network, the Dissemination…

One of the main inadequacies in educational management is that planning is not firmly integrated within administration. Five basic processes may be distinguished in administration. The first is planning, or determining what shall be done. The second element of the administrative process is organizing, or defining the administrative structures and…

Colleges should be administered by educators. An academic administrator insensitive to educational purpose and process is destined for failure. Failure is also the probable destiny for the academic administrator whose performance is not anchored in the concept sense of administration. The mastery and artistic application of major administrative…

An insight into the degree of California junior college faculty participation in decision-making was provided by obtaining the perceptions of state junior college faculty members and administrators. Each individual responded to a questionnaire containing 23 decision-making items by numerically indicating relative differences between current and…

This manual comprises a syllabus containing the directives and materials used by program administrators of the Nebraska State Department Instructional Division in 12-hour training sessions designed to increase management planning skills. The compilation includes those materials supplied to the participants for the sessions, as well as the…

The purpose of the 1969 workshop on community college administration held in Colorado was to provide the 24 participants from 12 states with an overview of many important concerns of community college administrators and to study several of them in depth. The workshop included field visits to the Community College of Denver. During the 2-week…

From a 1977 survey of twelve administrators who successfully use a management-by-objectives (MBO) method, the author lists twenty-seven steps for company management to take in setting their organizational goals. (MF)