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Peer reviewedHashim, Profithan; Boles, Harold W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1984
Describes the development, characteristics, and validation of a model, derived from sources in the literature, for the inservice professional development of educational administrators. The model has three crucial stages: planning, implementing, and evaluating. Each of these stages contains four steps: analysing, developing, operating, and…
Descriptors: Administrators, Educational Administration, Inservice Education, Management Development
Peer reviewedDuignan, P. A.; Macpherson, R. J. S. – Educational Management and Administration, 1987
Describes the Educative Leadership Project, a British program attempting to generate a new synthesis of experience, research, and theory on leadership and to develop complementary inservice and postgraduate learning materials for administrators. Discusses adult learning principles, relevant issues, project phases, and workshop procedures involved.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Adult Learning, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textGaddy, C. Stephen – 1987
This annotated bibliography of commercially prepared training materials for management and leadership development programs offers 10 topical sections of references applicable to school principal training. Entries were selected by using the following criteria: (1) programs dealing too specifically with management in sales, manufacturing, finance,…
Descriptors: Administrator Qualifications, Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedHoyle, John R. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 1985
Persistent problems in the formal preparation of educational administrators and the background of the 1983 American Association of School Administrators (AASA) guidelines are briefly discussed prior to the presentation of an overview of the guidelines themselves. As specific competencies and skills are presented, the rationale for each is set…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Competency Based Education, Educational Administration
National Association of Elementary School Principals, Alexandria, VA. – 1986
This report is designed for use by those specializing in the preparation of elementary and middle school principals and by those whose focus is on the inservice aspects of professional development. The paper identifies the proficiencies for K-8 principals and groups them into four major categories. The report elaborates on these categories,…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Creed, Philip J. – 1986
This report describes and analyzes the role played by key actors in initiating and implementing major reform in the management of the department of education in Victoria, the second largest state in Australia. Focus is during 1979-84, the time of the greatest administrative reform in the department's history. Study goals include the analysis of…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Administrator Role, Consultants, Educational Administration
Marshall, David; Newton, Earle – 1983
The professional preparation received by school administrators in developed countries is not necessarily appropriate for administrators in developing areas. There is little disagreement over the need for specialized training for these administrators, but decisions remain to be made concerning the types of training to be selected and the delivery…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Education, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
Harrison, William C.; Peterson, Kent D. – 1986
Most systems of administrative control include both formal and informal, explicit and implicit evaluative mechanisms that sense deviation from standards and activate corrective actions to return subordinates to acceptable levels of performance or to correct beliefs. A review of prior studies showed, however, that few school districts have specific…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Administration
Cook, Gillian E.; DeLuca, Nicholas M. – 1986
Students seeking certification in supervision and those seeking certification in educational administration were compared in order to examine differences in leadership styles. One hundred forty-nine educational administration students and 121 supervision students participated in the study at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Four…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Education, Administrators
Duignan, P. A.; Macpherson, R. J. S. – 1986
This paper reports on the objectives and specifications of an "educative leadership" project that aims to synthesize experience, research, and theory and to develop complementary inservice and postgraduate learning materials. Researchers and theorists are now addressing the lack of philosophical machinery in educational administration.…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Educational Administration, Educational Theories, Foreign Countries
Valle, Victor M. – 1984
The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and experiential background for a better approach to the question "What are the learning needs in management training for personnel working at the management level within ministries of education?" The paper reviews the literature on management training for personnel working in…
Descriptors: Administration, Definitions, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education
Gousha, Richard P.; And Others – 1986
This paper reports on (1) the results of a 1984-85 national survey of the status of school administrator preparation, (2) recent literature in the field, and (3) where the field appears to (and should) be going. Participants in the survey included state certification officials, large public school district officials, and directors of doctoral…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Baltzell, D. Catherine; Dentler, Robert A. – 1983
A case study was conducted on how principals are selected in American public school districts. Chapters 1-3 describe and evaluate conventional selection practices in 10 randomly sampled school districts; these include vacancy announcements, selection criteria, applicant pools, screening, and employment decisions. These procedures as currently…
Descriptors: Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Griffin, William H.; Barry, G. Michael – 1986
The Florida Council on Educational Management (FCEM), a 17-member council appointed by the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives, is central to the present control of public school management in Florida. The duties of the FCEM are to identify: (1) relevant management competencies of school managers; (2) standards and procedures for…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Selection
Bates, Richard – 1986
Theoretical analysis of educational administration as presented by advocates of corporate culture is inappropriately applied to the analysis of schooling. The corporate culture model has diverged from the "New Sociology of Education" approach, which interprets administrative processes as cultural politics (Bates 1983). That "corporate culture" is…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Critical Thinking, Cultural Context, Educational Administration
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