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Eacott, Scott – Journal of Educational Administration, 2023
Purpose: Education is a key institution of modern society, long recognized for its central role in the reproduction of inequities and with the potential to challenge them. Schools behave as their systems are designed. Achieving equity and excellence is not possible through attempts to fix "the school" or educators. Principles of systemic…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Quality, Instructional Design, Outcomes of Education
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Bain, Alan; Walker, Allan; Chan, Anissa – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: The paper aims to describe the application of theoretical principles derived from a study of self-organisation and complex systems theory and their application to school-based capacity building to support planned change. Design/methodology/approach: The paper employs a case example in a Hong Kong School to illustrate the application of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Educational Change, Sustainability
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Hargreaves, David H. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2011
Purpose: A recent development in England is the emergence, under various names, of groups of schools working together in a variety of collaborative ways. Such diversification enjoys broad political support. In this paper, the author aims to argue that the trend is potentially a radical transformation of the school system as a whole. The concepts…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Cluster Grouping, Partnerships in Education
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Hills, Jean; Gibson, C. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1992
Synthesizes a conceptual framework (or linguistic-conceptual systems) for thinking about conceptual frameworks, discusses their potential for helping users develop competence in applying them to unstructured problem solving, and outlines instructional implications. The theory-practice gap arises partly from failure to conceptualize the nature of…
Descriptors: Competence, Elementary Secondary Education, Norms, Perception
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Gunter, Helen – Journal of Educational Administration, 2004
The Galbraith article gives us the opportunity to think out loud about the purposes and practices of field activity, and in responding, this article argues that Galbraith is more concerned with the technical application of a method rather than investigating knowledge production. Using Bourdieu's theory of practice enables critical evaluation to be…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Systems Approach, Criticism, Physics