Greenfield on Educational Administration: Towards a Humane Craft

ISBN-13: 9780415080453 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 304 str.

Thomas Greenfield; Peter Ribbins

Opis

Greenfield on Educational Administration is a representative set of 13 of the key papers which Thomas Greenfield, arguably the doyen of contemporary theories of educational administration, has published over the last 20 years. His writings, as they appear, are studied by scholars, students and practitioners in the UK and across the English-speaking world, but are not always readily available individually. This collection charts the development of Greenfield's views of social reality as human invention, and explores strands of argument on the nature of knowledge, on administrative theory and research, on values, on the limits of science and the importance of human subjectivity, truth and reality.

Recenzje

`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

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.