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New: Restoring Human Agency to Educational Administration: Status and Strategies

Fenwick English, Rosemary Papa

Ideas for expanding and improving educational leadership training and research
A useful text for methods and doctoral research courses

In this reflective volume, addressed to those responsible for setting the agenda of study in the field of educational administration and leadership, Fenwick English and Rosemary Papa demonstrate how recent trends in standardization and online courses have diminished the field. The volume advances a case for the belief that the ways educators are trained to think have a profound effect on the fullness and intelligence of their actions as leaders. Drawing on history and an analysis of current stakeholders, the book develops practical suggestions on how work in education administration and leadership can transcend business and managerial frameworks to embrace a wider range of philosophical, historical and artistic theories, which offer to persons leading schools not just skills but knowledge of the human and the humanities. The authors' case is reinforced by an analysis of the theoretical approaches adopted by writers of recent dissertations in the field. This text provides original ideas for improving teaching and learning in educational leadership from coursework through doctoral preparation and research.

Table of Contents (abridged)

PART 1
Where Are We Now: A Period of
Scholasticism
A Portrait of the Face of Leadership
The National Apparatus of Educational Leadership
The Consrvative Intertextruality of the University
Current Educational Leadership as a Field of Study
Towards the Re-emergence of the Arts and Humanities in Preparing School Leaders
The Need for Competing Research Paradigms
A Synoptic Manifesto for Change
False Premise That Serve to Negate the Need for a Restored Perspective of Human Agency
Steps to Restore Human Agency in Theory, Research and Practice

PART 2
History of the Dissertation
Review Criteria
Approach to Assessing Current Dissertation Research
Academic and Institutional Production Centers
Academic Drift or Academic Riptide
Examples of Dissertation Writing
Improving Doctoral Rsearch