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THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY: CONSIDERATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN AN AGE OF DIVERSITY

K. GEORGE PEDERSEN (Vice‐President of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. From 1970–1972 Dr. Pedersen was Associate Director of the Midwest Administration Centre, University of Chicago and from 1972–75 he was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. He holds the degrees of B.A. (U.B.C.), M.A.(Washington) and Ph.D.(Chicago).)
THOMAS FLEMING (Lecturer in Educational History at the University of Victoria. He holds the degrees of B.A., M.A. and Dip.Ed(Victoria). Mr. Fleming has published on the subjects of accountability, early childhood education, special education and research and development in education.)

Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN: 0957-8234

Article publication date: 1 February 1977

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Abstract

As the ever‐changing social matrix affects all public institutions, so does it affect the public school. In fact, because of the school's unique status as the repository of our collective aspirations and its accessibility to the general public, the school frequently becomes the central agent in the drama of larger social change. By assuming the role as mediator between present and developing values, the school in effect sponsors its own institutional transformation. Against a background of emerging social trends, this paper attempts to explore a number of such transformations and the pedagogical “futures” which they suggest. Specifically, this discussion centres on the administration of public education in Canada, and to a lesser extent that of the United States. For the most part, focus is directed at separating administrative characteristics which might be labelled “constants”—that is, those that are unlikely to change over time—from an array of other organizational elements which are likely to experience profound revision (for example, the role of the principal). As might be expected, this is a speculative venture.

Citation

GEORGE PEDERSEN, K. and FLEMING, T. (1977), "THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY: CONSIDERATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN AN AGE OF DIVERSITY", Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 157-169. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009772

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