Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 12 Issue 2

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CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF CHANGE

ROBERT G. OWENS

Intensifying efforts to utilize behavioral science concepts and knowledge in administrative research and practice in education during the past quarter‐century have produced an…

THE SOCIALIZATION OF PROFESSIONALS INTO BUREAUCRACIES: THE BEGINNING TEACHER IN THE SCHOOL

EDWARD L. KUHLMAN, WAYNE K. HOY

The principal focus of this study involved the changes in bureaucratic and professional orientations of beginning teachers as they encountered the formal organization of the…

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN WOMEN TEACHERS WHO DO AND WHO DO NOT SEEK PROMOTION

JANET McINTOSH

This research study compares women elementary school teachers who have and have not applied for promotion. The variables considered include degree of family responsibilities, and…

SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER RECRUITMENT: THE CASE OF ONTARIO

PETER J. CISTONE

The paradigm of the Chinese Box Puzzle served as the analytic framework for this study of school board member recruitment. It directed attention to the process of selection and…

TOWARDS A POLITICAL THEORY OF SCHOOL FINANCE REFORM IN THE UNITED STATES

G. ALAN HICKROD, RONALD L. LAYMON, BEN C. HUBBARD

As interest in the “politics of education” continue to mount in the United States it becomes important to try to explicate the fundamental political ideology which continues to…

THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF EDUCATIONAL DECISION

LAADAN FLETCHER

Although historically based studies were once the only studies directly concerned with educational administration, enquiry is nowadays based primarily on modern theories of…

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE COMMONWEALTH GRANTS COMMISSION FOR EDUCATION POLICY‐MAKING IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

P.J. JONES

This case study investigates the contention that the Commonwealth Grants Commission, through the methods and procedures it employed to determine the special grants it recommended…

REFORM IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES: THE ROLE OF THE INSPECTOR

N.M. LOGAN

Despite general agreement amongst educators, both in Australia and other countries, that an authoritarian inspection system, whatever its virtues, has outlived some of its…

WHO SHOULD CONTROL THE SCHOOLS?

G.L. JOHNSTON

In many contemporary societies, the legitimacy of traditional sources of authority is the subject of controversy. The consequent re‐examination of the public policy‐making process…

BUREAUCRACY IN A COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION

N.F. DUFTY

This paper reports the results of a questionnaire survey of academic staff at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT). On the question of bureaucracy in its…

Cover of Journal of Educational Administration

ISSN:

0957-8234

Online date, start – end:

1963

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Chen Schechter
  • Professor Jayson W. Richardson