Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 24 Issue 1

PUPILS, POWER AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS

LAWRENCE ANGUS

The collective interaction of disaffected pupils is often described as a counter‐school subculture or as an informal organization within the school. This paper reports the…

TIMETABLE ANALYSIS: A TOOL FOR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS

GEOFF ELLEM

The school timetable is a powerful administrative tool. Ideally it should operationalise the aims and objectives of the school by providing an appropriate structural dimension to…

TEACHER MOTIVATION IN ALTERNATE PROMOTION STRUCTURES FOR NSW HIGH SCHOOLS

ROSS TELFER, TREVOR SWANN

The Content Theories of Motivation — those of Maslow, Herzberg and Alderfer — yielded four criteria by which alternate promotion structures in N.S.W. High Schools could be…

RESEARCH ON EFFECTIVE SCHOOLING: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT

PATRICK DUIGNAN

There is a vast amount of literature which identifies characteristics of effective schools and effective classrooms. This paper examines selected studies and their findings and…

SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS AND THE DISADVANTAGED SCHOOLS PROGRAM

ALLAN WALKER, JOSEPH MURPHY

The Disadvantaged Schools Program (D.S.P.) has been an important and integral part of education for many students in Australia for over a decade. The original goals and philosophy…

FROM MANAGERIALISM TO COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: CONTROL AND CONSENSUS IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

PETER WATKINS

Traditional approaches to educational administration have generally reflected a managerial perspective which owed much to the principles of scientific management developed by F…

EXPERIENCE IN THE VICE PRINCIPALSHIP: PREPARATION FOR LEADING SCHOOLS?

WILLIAM D. GREENFIELD, CATHERINE MARSHALL, DONALD B. REED

This report examines the function of experience in the role of vice‐principal as preparation for the school principalship, proposing that a dysfunctional socialization outcome of…

LEADERSHIP AND ACADEMIC GOVERNANCE IN A COLLEGE OF ADVANCED EDUCATION

A. O'NEILL, R. WELLARD

Leadership was the central issue of concern when academic governance regulations were introduced at Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences in 1978. At the time there was…