Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 18 Issue 1

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ADMINISTRATION BEHAVIOR OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS: A DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

PATRICK DUIGNAN

What do school administrators do when discharging their administrative responsibilities? How do they spend their days? Their weeks? Their years? What constitutes the basic content…

THE WORK ACTIVITY OF SCHOOL PRINCIPALS: AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

QUENTIN WILLIS

Despite the focal position of school principals in Australian education, there exist hardly any data on the work that they actually do. This study reports on continuous…

COMBINATIONS OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP STYLES IN VICTORIAN STATE HIGH SCHOOLS

A.M. BADCOCK

With the objective of identifying the combinations of principal—deputy principal leadership styles perceived to be most effective in Victoria's State high schools, style was…

COMPARATIVE PERCEPTIONS OF ELEMENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH, AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPALS ON SELECTED WORK RELATED VARIABLES

BRENT POPPENHAGEN, JULIAN MINGUS, JOSEPH ROGUS

Differences among elementary, junior high, and senior high school principals' perceptions of their administrative task competence; involvement with central office; autonomy; job…

WORK‐VALUE ORIENTATIONS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS TO TEACHERS' ACTIVITIES

MIRIAM EREZ, RACHEL ISRAELI

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of three work‐value orientations — cosmopolitan, local and bureaucratic, on teachers' activities in the high‐school system…

HARNESSING THE COMPUTER IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

BARRY CLEMSON

Computer applications in education have generally either (1) streamlined some existing routine operation such as payroll or scheduling or (2) attempted some very sophisticated…

TOWARD ADMINISTRATIVE PHILOSOPHIES

WILLIAM HANNAH

This paper continues discussion about the philosophy of educational administration and includes what the writer suggests is a reasonable basis for such a philosophy. The writer…

THE ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

KEITH EBBUTT

The higher education system of the GDR is a unified one, with over 50 university level institutions and about 200 technical colleges (Fachscule). At the national level the…

PRODUCTIVITY AND PUBLICATIONS PATTERNS IN DEPARTMENTS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

G. MANNY GUNNE, W. DOUGLAS STOUT

Criteria and procedures for faculty evaluation systems have never been easily or clearly identified, and previous studies on these issues hate produced conflicting or inconclusive…

PART‐TIME TERTIARY EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIAN C.A.E.s — CHEAP OR EXPENSIVE?

JUNE GLEESON

This paper presents the results of an investigation into the relative costs of part‐time and full‐time education at Colleges of Advanced Education. Estimates of the relative net…

NOTES ON THEORY AND RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: AN INVESTIGATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION AND THE COMMUNICATION OF POWER AND AUTHORITY

J.A. TAINTON

INTRODUCTION An administrator is, whether he is aware of the fact or not, continually making predictions — predictions about market trends, demographic changes, life expectancy of…

THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS PROGRAM IN AN AUSTRALIAN COUNTRY REGION: AN EVALUATION

A.J. NEBAUER, H.M. SUNGAILA

The Disadvantaged Schools Program was one important outcome of the Karmel Report, commissioned by the Whitlam Government in 1972. This report identified several deficiencies in…

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ISSN:

0957-8234

Online date, start – end:

1963

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Chen Schechter
  • Professor Jayson W. Richardson