Exploring Educational Administration Coherentist Applications and Critical Debates

Name: Exploring Educational Administration Coherentist Applications and Critical Debates
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ISBN: 9780080427669

ISBN-10: 0080427669

ISBN-13: 9780080427669

Edition: 1996

Authors: Colin W. Evers, Gabriele Lakomski

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Responding to the postmodernist challenge, this text develops some important applications in educational management, notably leadership, policy, decision-making and organisational design. It is the second book in a planned three volume work.

Book details

Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date: 12/19/1996
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 300
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Recent Developments in Educational Administration



Educational Administration as Science: A Postpositivist Proposal



Towards Coherence in Administrative Theory



Educational Organizations as Systems



Schooling, Organizational Learning and Efficiency in the Growth of Knowledge



Leadership and Learning: From Transformational Leadership to Organizational Learning



Policy Analysis: Practical Reason or Empirical Science?



Administrative Decision-Making as Pattern Processing



Educating the Brain



On Theory in Educational Administration: Beyond Greenfield's Subjectivism



Cognition, Values and Organizational Structure: Hodgkinson in Perspective



What Price Democracy? An Examination of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem in Educational Decision-Making



Explaining and Improving Educational Administration




The Salvation of Educational Administration: Better Science or Alternatives to Science




On Knowing: Cultural and Critical Approaches to Educational Administration




The Epistemological Axiology of Evers and Lakomski: Some Un-Quinean Quibblings




Response to Commentaries



Three Dogmas of Materialist Pragmatism: A Critique of a Recent Attempt to Provide a Science of Educational Administration




Three Dogmas: A Rejoinder



Knowledge, Certainty and Openness in Educational Administration




Response to Barlosky: Methodological Reflections on Postmodernism



A Rejoinder to Evers and Lakomski



Conclusion: Doing Educational Administration - Preliminary Reflections on a Theory of Practice


Author Index


Subject Index