Examines prevailing administrative internship assumptions, classifications, and cognitive constructs. Offers a conceptual model for switching from a reactive to an integrated approach. The emerging model engages interns as active participants in rigorous developmental experiences, uses problem-based learning, forges cooperative partnerships, and…

Summarizes a study exploring decision-making quality among 45 participants, who were administered the Decision Making Inventory either as groups or individuals. There were few differences between individual and collaborative group decision-making formats. Individual skills were more effective regarding curriculum and discipline. There were no…

The reform of educational administration preparation programs is hampered by systemic factors supporting a traditional liberal arts model, whereas reform advocates argue for substantive changes in content, process, and outcomes. A new model stressing leadership practice has five overriding themes: increasing cultural diversity, desire for…

Educational administration programs are unlikely to change, given the rigidity and dysfunctional nature of university culture. Faculty resistance rejects competing ideologies. In one alternative model based on the teacher-learner relationship, leadership is discovered rather than taught, constituting a journey for instructor and student. (26…