Journal of Educational Administration: Volume 39 Issue 6

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Theory in educational administration: naturalistic directions

Colin W. Evers, Gabriele Lakomski

Provides an overview of a rather large research program, developed over the last 15 years, that seeks to offer a new perspective on the nature of theory and practice in…

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Prototypes, virtues and the ethics of practice

Viviane M.J. Robinson

While in agreement with the broad coherentist approach of Evers and Lakomski, the position taken here is that coherentism, in itself, does not provide a sufficiently developed…

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Riding the E and L roller‐coaster: How I came to fear naturalistic coherentism

Derek J. Allison

Offers a critical commentary on the Evers and Lakomski research programme as summarized in their article, “Theory in educational administration: naturalistic directions”. The…

Evers and Lakomski’s search for leadership’s holy grail (and the intriguing ideas they encountered along the way)

Robert Donmoyer

Critiques the 15‐year research program of Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski. Significant contributions are highlighted and the significance of each of the highlighted…

Educational leadership and management of knowing: the aesthetics of coherentism

Spencer J. Maxcy

Examines the coherentist project for educational administration of professors Colin Evers and Gabriele Lakomski from a critical and pragmatic perspective. It is argued that Evers…

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Towards developing naturalistic coherentism

Sun Hyung Park

Criticisms of naturalistic coherentism are suggested that are not raised by its critics in the literature. The rejection of traditional foundationalism does not necessarily entail…

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ISSN:

0957-8234

Online date, start – end:

1963

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Professor Chen Schechter
  • Professor Jayson W. Richardson