What roles can and should teachers' unions play in the deliberations, debates, and conflicts over school reform in a time when education sits at the center of so much of our economic, political, ideological, and cultural tensions? Lois Weiner's new book, "The Future of Our Schools: Teachers Unions and Social Justice," speaks…

Discusses Greenfield's understanding of theory and science and its place in educational administration, beginning with the New Movement's conception of administrative science and its supposed relevance for administrative practice. Considers Greenfield's trenchant criticisms of traditional science in administration and explore his research agenda…

Four contiguous chapters in the new "Handbook of Research on Educational Administration" examine evolving views of school organizations. Schools are conceived as facing certain enduring dilemmas or viewed as cultures, polities, or communities. Authors describe rumblings (debates, rhetoric, and prescriptions) in the cracks of conventional…

Discusses Max Weber's importance in Greenfield's work, particularly in Greenfield and Ribbins'"Greenfield on Educational Administration" (1993). In concentrating on human actors' subjective understanding, Greenfield was a faithful Weberian. However, he deviated from Weber by disavowing structural explanations of social and organizational…

A British management scholar critiques Greenfield and Ribbins'"Greenfield on Educational Administration" (1993), considering the book's contribution to educational administration theory, relevance to practitioner vision, pertinence to administrative science, and connection with political philosophy. This book of selected works reveals…

Many Catholic educators have been impressed by the congruence between Greenfield's understandings and the philosophical bases of Catholic education. Greenfield's analyses illuminate three areas of concern: the community-organization dichotomy, the centrality of values, and the exercise of leadership. Greenfield's insights are particularly relevant…

Explains fundamental shifts dominating education's transition at technical, managerial, and institutional levels. Since the first edition of the "Handbook of Research on Educational Administration," school administration has been reconfigured and recultured. Social justice, democratic community, and school improvement comprise major…

Discusses the concept of the learning organization contained in Peter Senge's text, "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization," and how it applies to schools. The school library information professional's potential role as a practitioner of systems thinking, which Senge defines as the fifth discipline, is…