This article provides a brief description of and early conclusions from the first Australian experiences with organizational development in schools. (Author)

Drawing from effective schools research, this paper examines selected studies and their findings, provides an organizing framework, and discusses various implementations for school improvement, including the centrality of school climate and culture and the qualitative nature of desired changes. Includes 55 references. (MLH)

Describes the means used and problems faced during an effort to implement, maintain, and improve a national program for disseminating training in educational administration to secondary school administrators in New Zealand's Central Region, an administrative area containing 80 secondary schools, by depending on the first trainees to train others.…

The 1980s will be a period of restructuring for Australian education. Four factors will be central to this process: school-based decision-making, new administrative structures, regionalization, and declining and shifting enrollments. (Author/JW)

Attempts to design an experimental program for the training of a new generation of educational administrators, with the rationale being based on selected concepts and propositions of occupational sociology, organizational theory, and systems theory. (Author)

When a program of innovative change is proposed for a school, it may well be possible to predict which of the various subsystems of the school will offer the most resistance. The group who are required to make the greatest modification in their normal procedures of operation will raise the highest level of resistance. (Author)

Attempts to draw together the kinds of information needed to help school district administrators view their orgnization by examining the consequences of decisions for all of the district goals and objectives, rather than by solving problems one at a time. (Author)

Attempts to clear up the meaning of administration'' and philosophy,'' clarify somewhat their conceptual affinities, and explore briefly what the analysis may mean for administration. Contends that administration and philosophy, in that they both have to do with human behavior, have important affiliations. (Author/DN)

Applies a philosophical perspective to the landmark 1970 memorandum "Freedom and Authority" written by A. W. Jones, then Director-General of Education in South Australia. In the memorandum Jones attempted a decentralization and reform of South Australian schools. (Author/JM)

Translates the marketing function, as developed for business, into a university setting and recommends that universities revise management priorities. Suggests, in particular, that universities be more responsive to the market and more concerned with organizational effectiveness. (Author/WD)

Investigates the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward a change, as the dependent variable, and their knowledge about the change, their participation in the change, and their general attitudes to education, as independent variables, in the context of certain school and teacher situation variables. (Author/IRT)

Analyzes developments in the Western Australia educational system between 1983 and 1989, a period of dramatic, unprecedented change. Shows how patterns of control are underpinned and shaped by ideologies existing in a wider sociopolitical context. Major changes proceeded from opposing ideological strands--a social imperative that ultimately became…

Reviews the thrusts for educational equity and diversity evinced by the constitutional provisions and measures adopted during successive plan periods in India. Analyzes the impact of relevant policies and programs on promoting equity and fostering diversity. Identifies the challenges facing educational administrators when tackling equity and…

Identifies and analyzes the organizational constraints acting upon and within the Egyptian Ministry of Education that deter its capacity for administrative reform. Despite being highly bureaucratic, the ministry's administrative structure operates with relative efficiency. However, the ministry cannot seem to change the educational system's…

Presents the first William Walker Oration given to the the New England Association for Educational Administration in Armidale, Australia. Following a history of the establishment of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration, the role of leadership in the education system is described; particularly the transformational leadership. (22…