This article follows the lead of several researchers who claim there is an urgent need to utilize insights from the arts, aesthetics and the humanities to expand our understanding of leadership. It endeavours to do this by exploring the metaphor of dance. It begins by critiquing current policy metaphors used in the leadership literature that…

Postmodernism's effects on educational administration will be catastrophic--a radical overturning of established (Cartesian) thought and practice. Postmodernism's most significant challenges are developing a stable knowledge base for determining best/reflective practice, addressing the assumed "sanctity" of educational-administration…

This paper argues that case-based and problem-based approaches to teaching educational administration are inherently anchored in positivist notions of science. Both approaches are embedded in prepartitioned landscapes, or "metanarratives." The metanarrative world view rejects the premise that there is one way to view the discipline and…

For a long time educational administration has been enamored with the idea that studies about leadership should lead to contextually free generalizations. Despite decades of empirical studies modeled after the social sciences' most rigorous disciplines, very little is known about leadership. Previous views of leadership attempted to generalize…

Management science, as it has been defined in behavioral-structural frames in educational administration, cannot encompass the realm of leadership. The frames themselves eliminate that which is most important, that is, the interaction/communication of the idiosyncratic and complex personal/character/interpersonal dimensions between leaders and…

Argues that there is not a field (as a totality) of educational administration; rather there are many fields. Suggests abandoning privilege based on scientific sanctuary, and instead examining leadership issues subjectively and within context. (Contains 100 references.) (NB)