Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 33 Issue 1

Set the signals at green! The William Walker oration

Judith D. Chapman

Discusses the main advances in epistemological perspectives andmeta‐theoretical frameworks within which recent research and academicwork in the field of educational administration…

Socialization to a new conception of the principalship

Gary M. Crow, Catherine Glascock

Institutions which train potential administrators are confrontedwith how best to help them conceive their new role in a way thatsupports school reform. Reports on study of…

School managerial control: validating a social concept

Ira E. Bogotch, Paul Williams, Jim Hale

School managerial control is derived from perceptions ofbehavioural interactions between teachers and administrators along twodimensions: regular patterns of formal and informal…

Patterns of thinking in educational administration

Terry Lane

Argues that theory in educational administration is not theoreticalbut, rather, descriptions of ideological perspectives. This argument istied to patterns of thinking which are…

Educational restructuring gone astray in paradise? The Papua New Guinea experience

Thomas A. O′Donoghue

Argues that the proposals for primary education in the latest Education Sector Review in Papua New Guinea are seriously misguided.Recommends a major overhaul of the system in…