Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 15 Issue 2

THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS DARKLY: CONSIDERATIONS OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN AN AGE OF DIVERSITY

K. GEORGE PEDERSEN, THOMAS FLEMING

As the ever‐changing social matrix affects all public institutions, so does it affect the public school. In fact, because of the school's unique status as the repository of our…

ADMINISTRATIVE CANDIDACY: A PROCESS OF NEW ROLE LEARNING—PART 2

WILLIAM D. JR. GREENFIELD

Part One of this initial report of a longitudinal study of the organizational socialization of educational administrators offered an analysis of data ordered by the GASing…

THEORY IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: INSTRUCTIONAL AND CONTENT CONSIDERATIONS

EDDY J. VAN METER

A review is made of several efforts to describe the instructional emphasis and curricular content of courses relating to theory in educational administration. A summary is then…

ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT IN SCHOOLS: EARLY DATA ON THE AUSTRALIAN EXPERIENCE

W.R. MULFORD, A.B. CONABERE, J.A. KELLER

This article provides a brief description of and early conclusions from the first Australian experiences with Organization Development (O.D.) in schools. Early feedback is felt to…

PUPIL CONTROL IDEOLOGY AND THE SALIENCE OF TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS

W.J. SMYTH

Australian Pupil Control Ideology (PCI) studies have generally utilized small samples in an endeavour to establish significant relationships between teacher/administrator control…

PPBS AND TEACHERS: RESPONSES TO AN EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

PAUL GOLDMAN, SUNDRA GREGORY

Teacher attitudes towards the implementation of SPECS, a planning‐programming‐budgeting system designed for schools, were measured for a three‐year period in River Park School…

SECONDARY SCHOOL SIZE: A CONTINUING CONUNDRUM FOR ADMINISTRATORS AND PLANNERS

A. SMITHSON

In recent years the credo that small schools are superior to large schools has gained wide, and often uncritical support. The purpose of this paper is to indicate serious…

DEMAND‐RESPONSE AND SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER INCUMBENT DEFEAT

FRANK W. LUTZ, WILLIAM L. GARBERINA

This study is based on the earlier work of Iannaccone and Lutz, Kirkendall and Le Doux and Burlingame and uses socio‐economic data obtained from 77 school districts in…

UNDERSTANDING DECISION‐MAKING IN A UNIVERSITY FACULTY

LESLIE R. EASTCOTT

This paper describes several structural models and a process model as tools for understanding decision‐making in universities. The validity of each is discussed in terms of the…

A STUDY OF THE ATTITUDES OF MALE GRADUATE STUDENTS TOWARDS PROFESSIONAL WOMEN

HUBERT JOHNSTON, GLADYS STYLES JOHNSTON, CAROL CAMP YEAKEY

Male graduate students of departments of Educational Administration and Professional Schools are members of an elite group who significantly comprise and control the leadership…