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This anthology summarizes and critiques the current knowledge base in the field of educational administration.
For scholars and practitioners who are interested in or are concerned about knowledge-based issues, this book provides a needed antidote to narrow discussions of foundational issues.
The editors of this book maintain that discussions of a knowledge base in educational administration have typically been limited to a fairly traditional range of scholarly commentary reflective of the status quo within departments of educational administration over the past several decades. Other views, such as feminist views, race/ethnic-based orientations, those that dispute the very idea of a knowledge base, and those that simply expand the traditional range, have been given little attention within the knowledge-base discourse. The purpose of this book is, thus, to open up this discourse by broadening the range of viewpoints being considered.
Introduction—Knowledge Base Problems in Educational Administration
Part I: Framing the Debate: Philosophical, Historical, and Practical Issues
The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Postpositivist Reflections
James Joseph Scheurich
The Myth of a Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Janet Littrell and William Foster
Building a Professional Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Opportunities and Obstacles
Paul V. Bredeson
The Knowledge Base in School Administration: Historical Footings and Emerging Trends
Joseph Murphy
A Knowledge Base for Educational Administration: Notes from the Field
Robert Donmoyer
Craft Knowledge and Institutional Constraints
Rodney Muth
Organizational Counterproductivism in Educational Administration
Michael Imber
Narrative Knowledge and Educational Administration: The Stories That Guide Our Practice
Gary L. Anderson and Bonnie Page
Part II: Hearing Traditionally Excluded Voices: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Educational Administration
A Cup Half Full: A Gender Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Charol Shakeshaft
How Gender and Ethnicity Interact in the Practice of Educational Administration: The Case of Hispanic Female Superintendents
Flora Ida Ortiz and David Jude Ortiz
Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Quest for a Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Vivian Ikpa
Lessons of Leadership: A Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Jayminn Sulir Sanford
Fe/Male Voices: Leadership and the Knowledge Base
Rosemary Papalewis
Part III: Adding New Points of View: Alternative Theoretical Approaches and Models
The Micropolitics of Education
Joseph Blase
Developments in Theory and Practice: An Opportunity to Examine the Impact of the Environment on School Organizations
Rodney T. Ogawa
The Preparation of Educational Leaders and Rational Choice Theory
Tyll van Geel
Needed: A Knowledge Base that Promotes Creativity—Toward a Rhetorical Knowledge Base for Educational Administration
Jane Clark Lindle
A Constructivist View of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Nona A. Prestine
An Otherist Poststructural Perspective of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration
Colleen A. Capper
Theoretical Pluralism in Educational Administration
Daniel E. Griffiths
Contributors
Index