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Three Dogmas of Materialist Pragmatism: A Critique of a Recent Attempt to Provide a Science of Educational Administration
Trevor H. MaddockExamines the claim that materialist pragmatism is more coherent thanalternative accounts of educational administration. Argues that thecriteria of coherence provided by…
Three Dogmas: A Rejoinder
Colin W. Evers, Gabriele LakomskiOffers a reply to Trevor Maddock′s philosophical critique of theauthors′ work. Contains a brief summary of the authors′ researchprogramme, located within a perspective on…
Creating Empowered Schools: Lessons in Change
Paula Myrick Short, John T. Greer, William M. MelvinSets out to understand how schools participating in a project to createempowered schools defined empowerment, how they structured the changeprocess and how the school culture…
Encouragement of Local Control in National Education, New South Wales, 1848‐1866
John MumfordArgues that school boards were introduced and retained during the 19foundational years of state education in New South Wales, not as tokenpartners or mere money‐raisers, but as…
Management Strategy, the CEO′s Cognitive Style and Organizational Growth/Decline: A Framework for Understanding Enrolment Change in Private Colleges
Yoram Neumann, Edith Finaly‐NeumannDevelops a model which links organizational growth and decline tocompetitive strategy, the strategy‐making process and the personalcharacteristics of the chief executive officer…
Women in Education and Early Retirement
Margaret Patrickson, Linley Hartmann, Leonnie McCarronReports on the attitudes of a small sample of older women in educationto the future options of either continuing to participate in theirchosen profession or retiring early. Little…
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hybridEditors:
- Professor Chen Schechter
- Professor Jayson W. Richardson