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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Harris, Carol E. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1996
Thomas Greenfield argued passionately for a theory of organizations based on social construction. He advocated research stressing subjectively held meanings and successfully blended aesthetics with values. This he accomplished through a "shock aesthetic" and by bringing alternative, interdisciplinary modes of seeing to educational administration.…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Aesthetics, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
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Miklos, Erwin – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1983
Developments in the content, growth, differentiation, and theory-practice relationships of preparation programs over the last three decades are described. Proposals for improving the knowledge on which programs are based, instructional methods, and application of concepts to practice have changed preparatory programs, but basic issues still demand…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Culbertson, Jack A. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1981
Traces the conceptual roots of the theory movement in educational administration, highlighting the ideas of Auguste Comte and the logical positivists. Explains how core concepts that shaped the theory movement were diffused into educational administration and sets forth implications for future study. (Author/WD)
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Administration, Educational History, Educational Theories