An influential collection of ten key papers by Thomas Greenfield offering his often controversial theories on educational administration.
Author(s): T. Greenfield
Edition: 1
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 304
BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
FOREWORD......Page 10
1 THEORY ABOUT ORGANIZATION......Page 18
ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE AND THE PROFESSION OF ADMINISTRATION......Page 19
TWO VIEWS OF SOCIAL REALITY......Page 22
Philosophical basis......Page 23
The role of social science......Page 25
Theory about what?......Page 27
Research and methodology......Page 28
Society and its organizations......Page 30
Organizational pathologies and cures......Page 32
IMPLICATIONS......Page 33
REFERENCES......Page 38
2 RESEARCH IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA......Page 42
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ADMINISTRATIVE RESEARCH......Page 43
Intellectual orientations in the field......Page 44
REVIEWING THE REVIEWS......Page 49
Halpin’s review......Page 51
The review of educational research......Page 52
The study of educational administration......Page 54
The 1977 seminar on theory and research......Page 55
The Ericksonian critique......Page 56
Texts in educational administration......Page 57
Shadow and substance......Page 59
Policy and the practical......Page 61
An alternative?......Page 62
REFERENCES......Page 64
3 ORGANIZATIONS AS TALK, CHANCE, ACTION AND EXPERIENCE1......Page 68
A FALSE DICHOTOMY BETWEEN ORGANIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL......Page 69
Organizations in environment......Page 70
METHODOLOGY AS AN END IN ITSELF......Page 73
VALIDATING THEORY23......Page 75
IMAGE, REALITY AND METHOD......Page 77
CAN THERE BE ONE BEST THEORY OF EXPERIENCE?......Page 79
OTHER IMAGES, OTHER THEORIES......Page 82
CHANCE AS TRUTH......Page 83
CONCLUSION......Page 85
NOTES......Page 86
4 ORGANIZATION THEORY AS IDEOLOGY1......Page 89
THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIAL REALITY......Page 91
SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN TERMS OF HUMAN MEANINGS......Page 93
VALUES AND METHODOLOGY......Page 95
LOGIC, WILL, SUBMISSION AND IMAGES OF REALITY......Page 97
NOTES......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
5 THE MAN WHO COMES BACK THROUGH THE DOOR IN THE WALL......Page 105
INTERPRETING SOCIAL REALITY: REASONING WITH ANGELS AND OTHERS......Page 109
PROLEGOMENON FOR A NEW STUDY OF ORGANIZATION......Page 116
PROBLEMATICS......Page 124
CONCLUSION......Page 127
NOTES......Page 131
6 AGAINST GROUP MIND......Page 134
AN ANARCHISTIC CONCLUSION......Page 142
NOTES......Page 143
REFERENCES......Page 144
7 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION......Page 145
THE RISE OF SCIENCE IN ADMINISTRATION......Page 146
SIMON AND POSITIVISM IN ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE......Page 148
THE FAILURE OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE......Page 149
WHAT SIMON OMITTED: RIGHT, RESPONSIBILITY, REFLECTION......Page 151
THE INFUSION OF SCIENCE INTO EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION......Page 153
The growing belief in administration as science......Page 155
Hidden values of administrative science......Page 157
Science-validated training programmes......Page 159
THE ALTERNATIVE......Page 162
AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE......Page 165
NOTES......Page 168
REFERENCES......Page 169
8 ON HODGKINSON’S MORAL ART1......Page 172
NOTES......Page 178
9 RE-FORMING AND RE-VALUING EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION......Page 179
LOOKING BACK......Page 181
The phoenix and no ashes?......Page 182
Parsing the paradigms......Page 186
Splitting facts and values......Page 191
Values are asserted, chosen, imposed, not measured......Page 192
LOOKING FORWARD......Page 194
The openness of enquiry......Page 195
Out-of-control organizations......Page 197
The school as a crux of value......Page 201
NOTES......Page 204
REFERENCES......Page 205
10 SCIENCE AND SERVICE......Page 209
A TROUBLING FOUNDATION......Page 210
‘Is’ and ‘ought to be’......Page 211
The fount of values: system and society......Page 213
‘Balancing’ science and values......Page 219
Reflections......Page 222
PROSPECTS FOR EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AS A FIELD OF STUDY......Page 226
Implications......Page 227
CONCLUSION......Page 229
NOTES......Page 234
SCENE SETTING......Page 238
BEFORE 1961: TOWARDS THE SCHOLAR’S LIFE......Page 239
1961–1971: OBJECTIVIST YEARS—FROM CERTAINTY TO DOUBT......Page 240
1971–1974: TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM......Page 246
AFTER 1974: THE SUBJECTIVIST YEAR—FROM BRISTOL TO EDMONTON......Page 254
REFERENCES......Page 278
APPENDIX......Page 279
INDEX......Page 283
