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THE PREPARATION OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: LAYING ON OF THE HANDS

A. ROSS THOMAS (Senior Lecturer and Chairman of the Educational Administration Programme, University of New England. He holds the degrees of B.Econ., M.Ed. (Qld.) and Ph.D. (New England). Dr. Thomas recently returned to Australia after spending ten months in Canada and three months in the U.K. He is deeply indebted to the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Administration and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education for the assistance and cooperation which made this paper possible.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 January 1975

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Abstract

The award of a Commonwealth Visiting Fellowship enabled the writer to investigate preparation programmes for educational administrators in twelve prominent Canadian universities. Interviews with professors, students and practising administrators, participation in lectures, seminars and assessment procedures provided the basis for the writer's impressions. An analysis of pre‐Master's, Master's and doctoral programmes revealed that, in general, students must select courses from (i) organization and administration theory, (ii) educational personnel supervision, (iii) education in Canada and (iv) a series of options. Evidence of a combination of discipline, theory, problems and career‐based approaches was found in most programmes. The writer argues that Canadian professors of educational administration are (i) anxious to improve the quality of the courses offered and grappling with the problem of programme relevance, (ii) not generally concerned with teaching as a skill and restricted in methods used, particularly simulations, (iii) somewhat insular in outlook and (prior to the establishment of CASEA) lacking an adequate means of inter‐departmental communication. Future developments in the preparation of educational administrators are foreshadowed by the writer.

Citation

ROSS THOMAS, A. (1975), "THE PREPARATION OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATORS IN CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: LAYING ON OF THE HANDS", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 13 No. 1, pp. 35-60. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009720

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