Isbn: 9780879753665 - paradigms and promises: new approaches to educational administration (frontiers of education) (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Good. 218 pages. Cover wornIn the field of educational administration there have been several years of a ctive debate over how America's school systems are run. Contemporary educational administrators have been forced to reflect not only on educational policy and p ractice, but on the very nature of their position. How does administration contr ibute to the type of society we have? In what ways does it impede or enhance our cultural ideals and values?Paradigms and Promises offers an unorthodox solution by presenting administration as an arena for critical reflection and humanistic action, rather than a more technically-oriented style of management. Foster's c ritical analysis is premised on an understanding of the relationship of theory t o practice, and as he provides alternative theories, he sheds new light on educa tional administration. Orthodox administrative theory receives heavy criticism i n this text. Foster employs progressive critical theory as well as conventional analyses in critical appraisal, and advocates a dialectical concept, through whi ch administrators, teachers and students are encouraged to challenge and questio n each other - the eventual result being a more responsive, democratically-run s ystem.…