The Postmodern Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration

Based on nearly a decade of scholarship, this is a highly focused book on the implications of postmodernism for the construction and assessment of theory and practice in educational administration. Current ideas of practice are deconstructed, from the notions of sound research to the use of national...

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Autor principal: English, Fenwick W. (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield : Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD 2003.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I. The Postmodern Challenge to Theory in Educational Administration
  • 1. What is Postmodernism?
  • 2. Turnings in Educational Administration: Apostrophic or Catastrophic?
  • 3. What Paradigm Shift? Could Kuhn have been Wrong?
  • 4. The End of the Field of Educational Administration
  • pt. II. The Postmodern Challenge to the Practice of Educational Administration
  • 5. The ISLLC Standards: The Deskilling and Deprofessionalization of Educational Administrators
  • 6. Deconstructing Research Methods: The Case of Portraiture
  • 7. The Denouement of a Contemporary Management Guru
  • 8. Old Wine in New Bottles: Murphy's Call for a New Center of Gravity in Educational Administration
  • 9. Dumbing Schools Down with Data-Driven Decision Making
  • 10. Hegemony or Harmony? Ending the Theory-Practice Gap
  • Coda: The Many Meanings of Postmodernism for the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration
  • The Postmodernist's Pledge.