Educational Administration - An Australian Perspective

List of contents

Preface viii

Contributors x

Introduction xii

Colin W. Evers and Judith D. Chapman

1 Theory in Educational Administration 1

Gabriele Lakomski and Colin W. Evers

2 Educational Organisations as Systems 18

Gabriele Lakomski and Felicity Haynes

3 Subjectivity and the Creation of Organisations 34

Peter C. Gronn

4 Critical Theory of Educational Administration 49

Richard Bates

5 Cultural Theory in Educational Administration 60

Lawrence Angus

6 Ethics in Educational Administration 81

Fazal Rizvi

7 Towards Coherence in Administrative Theory9 7

Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski

8 Cross-national Exchange and Australian Education Policy1 10

Margaret Vickers

9 New Patterns for Managing Schools and School Systems 132

Hedley Beare

10 The Provision of Non-government Schooling in Australia:

Retrospect and Prospect 153

Maurice Ryan and Helen Sungaila

11 The Provision of Education and the Allocation of Resources 170

Brian J.

About the author

Colin Evers is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne and co-author of Knowing Educational Administration. Judith Chapman is Professor of Education at the University of Western Australia and editor of School-Based Decision-Making and Democracy and Bureaucracy.

Summary

Examines the changes in educational administration practice and theory, and the changing political, economic and social contexts which have engendered these transformations.

Product details

• Authors: Judith Chapman, Colin Chapman Evers
• Assisted by: Judith Chapman (Editor), Judith D. Chapman (Editor), Chapman Judith (Editor), Colin Evers (Editor), Colin W. Evers (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780367718015
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71801-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / General, Australia, EDUCATION / Leadership, EDUCATION / Organizations & Institutions, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization