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The Postmodern Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration

Based on nearly a decade of scholarship, this is a highly focused book on the implications of postmodernism for the construction and assessment of theory and practice in educational administration. Current ideas of practice are deconstructed, from the notions of sound research to the use of national standards in the preparation of educational leaders along with ways of examining and resolving the theory-practice gap
eBook, English, 2003
Charles C Thomas Publisher, LTD, Springfield, 2003
1 online resource (291 pages)
9780398084240, 0398084246
689997416
pt. I. The Postmodern Challenge to Theory in Educational Administration
1. What is Postmodernism?
2. Turnings in Educational Administration: Apostrophic or Catastrophic?
3. What Paradigm Shift? Could Kuhn have been Wrong?
4. The End of the Field of Educational Administration
pt. II. The Postmodern Challenge to the Practice of Educational Administration
5. The ISLLC Standards: The Deskilling and Deprofessionalization of Educational Administrators
6. Deconstructing Research Methods: The Case of Portraiture
7. The Denouement of a Contemporary Management Guru
8. Old Wine in New Bottles: Murphy's Call for a New Center of Gravity in Educational Administration
9. Dumbing Schools Down with Data-Driven Decision Making
10. Hegemony or Harmony? Ending the Theory-Practice Gap
Coda: The Many Meanings of Postmodernism for the Theory and Practice of Educational Administration
The Postmodernist's Pledge