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Rodriguez-Ruiz, Oscar – Journal of Educational Administration, 2009
Purpose: This paper seeks to show the limitations of citation analysis to measure the quality of scientific contributions, also exploring the consequences of the assessment of research performance for educational institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The study reviews the literature about citation and assessment of the research endeavour to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Citation Indexes, Citation Analysis, Indexing
Begley, Paul T.; Stefkovich, Jacqueline – Journal of Educational Administration, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of moral literacy as it applies to leadership development and the processes for promoting moral literacy through teaching in colleges and universities. Design/methodology/approach: The ethics of authenticity and moral agency in education settings are proposed as a means for promoting and…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Ethics, Values Education, Leadership
Peer reviewed
Walker, Allan; And Others – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Describes and analyzes an effort to introduce problem-based learning (PBL) into a Chinese cultural setting--an educational administration course at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Discusses tensions between Eastern students' perceptions of teachers as "wise persons" and a Western discovery-learning philosophy, ameliorative…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Cultural Influences, Discovery Learning, Educational Administration
Peer reviewed
Bajunid, Ibrahim Ahmad – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Articulates the need to understand and seek indigenous perspectives of educational management, using Malaysia's experience as an example. To differentiate culture-free and culture-bound content in educational management, the field's core corpus of theories, concepts, and terminology must be identified; the culture-specific ways of knowing must be…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed
Hallinger, Phillip; Leithwood, Kenneth – Journal of Educational Administration, 1996
Outlines the rationale for exploring culture's role in educational administration practice. Examines how culture fits into a broad theoretical framework for studying administrative behavior, focusing on the societal culture construct as an exogenous and endogenous variable. Examines transmission of a knowledge base through training and…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Administrator Education, Cultural Influences, Educational Administration
Leadership Stories: What Novices Learn by Crafting the Stories of Experienced School Administrators.
Peer reviewed
Danzig, Arnold B. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1997
Describes research that examined the kinds of understandings and reflections prospective administrators engage in by writing stories about experienced administrators. Explains how 17 educational administration graduate students carried out multiple interviews with practicing administrators concerning their personal and professional biography and a…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Biographies, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed
Daresh, John C. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1990
Although field-based learning is alleged to be a vital part of educational administration training programs, this research review shows that high quality investigation is scarce. Most work lacks a theoretical base, so generalizability is severely restricted. Future research should concentrate on candidates' professional development and on issues…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Peer reviewed
Weeks, John – Journal of Educational Administration, 1988
Presents a personal review of conditions influencing educational administration's well-being in developing countries. Discusses some forgotten influences, such as myths, external pressures, the selection of appropriate policies and strategies, personnel and training programs, and professional support problems. The greatest sin of commission is…
Descriptors: Conflict, Developing Nations, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewed
Maddock, Trevor H. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1994
Questions whether materialist pragmatism is more coherent than alternative accounts of educational administration. The criteria provided by materialist pragmatists lack overall coherence; there is no way to choose between first- and second-order theories. Arguments against separation of factual and evaluative realms are unconvincing, and…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Coherence, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewed
Evers, Colin W.; Lakomski, Gabriele – Journal of Educational Administration, 1994
Replies to Trevor Maddock's philosophical critique of the authors' work. Explains authors' attempts to develop a new science of administration that incorporates values and human subjectivity and a new view of knowledge termed "naturalistic coherentism." Science is still being equated with a positivist version of empiricism. Maddock…
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Coherence, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy
Peer reviewed
Neumann, Yoram; Finaly-Neumann, Edith – Journal of Educational Administration, 1994
Develops a model linking organizational growth and decline to competitive strategy, the strategy-making process, and the chief executive officer's personal characteristics. The model was empirically tested for private liberal arts colleges. Enrollment growth is associated with focused strategy, the CEO's innovative style, differentiation, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, College Presidents, Declining Enrollment, Enrollment Influences
Peer reviewed
Crow, Gary M.; Glascock, Catherine – Journal of Educational Administration, 1995
Studies candidates in a nontraditional principal preparation program, highlighting the socialization process of developing an innovative role perception. Candidates encountered conflict between a university-derived role conception and that promoted by the school system. Gradually, the sense of facilitating teachers yielded to the principal's…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Peer reviewed
Gunter, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 1995
Investigates the failure of "Jurassic" management: visioning, consensus value systems, proactively created teams, and development planning. Applied chaos theory can help self-managing schools and colleges avoid disaster and improve their management-development programs. Survival in turbulent times is based on educational managers'…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Influences
Peer reviewed
Michael, Steve O. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1995
Discusses the effects of worsening financial constraints evident in all aspects of higher education institutions. Examines differences and similarities in institutional leaders' opinions regarding environmental concerns. All Alberta, Canada, higher education institutions are experiencing similar problems. There is no deliberate shift in government…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Environmental Influences, Financial Problems, Foreign Countries
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Rashford, Nicholas S.; Coghlan, David – Journal of Educational Administration, 1992
The organization is a complex living system comprising four levels: individual, face-to-face team, group-divisional, and policy-strategy. This article applies one framework of organizational levels to the university context and shows how a focus on successful task completion on each level provides a paradigm for effective administration. (17…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Effectiveness, Departments, Educational Administration