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Zusatztext `This is a most welcome text. ... I can do no other than to say that for me Greenfield was Education Management. ... An excellent book, sadly unique. A multiple copy `must' for Education Management library stocks.' - Educational Management and Administration `...a carefully compiled and structured selection which encapsulates Greenfield's philosophical journey.' - Educational Management and Administration `This is a most welcome text. Welcome on a least two counts. First, it brings together in a unique volume the `top ten' of Tom Greenfield's papers,...Second, it reinforces, for both Greenfield afficionados and novitiates, the stance that `organisations are in people, nothing beyond them, nothing less'...An excellent book, sadly unique. A multiple copy `must' for Education Management library stocks.' - Educational Management and Administration Informationen zum Autor Thomas Greenfield was formerly Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education., Peter Ribbins is Reader in Educational Management at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext An influential collection of ten key papers by Thomas Greenfield offering his often controversial theories on educational administration. Zusammenfassung An influential collection of ten key papers by Thomas Greenfield offering his often controversial theories on educational administration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Theory About Organization; Chapter 2 Research in Educational Administration in the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Organizations as Talk, Chance, Action and Experience; Chapter 4 Organization Theory as Ideology; Chapter 5 The Man Who Comes Back through the Door in the Wall; Chapter 6 Against Group Mind; Chapter 7 The Decline and Fall of Science in Educational Administration; Chapter 8 On Hodgkinson’s Moral Art; Chapter 9 Re-Forming and Re-Valuing Educational Administration; Chapter 10 Science and Service; Chapter 11 Educational Administration as a Humane Science;...