Greenfield on Educational Administration: Towards a Humane SciencePsychology Press, 1993 - 285 pages This collection is a representative set of ten of the key papers which Thomas Greenfield, arguably the doyen of contemporary theories of educational administration, has published over the last twenty years. His writings as they appear are eagerly sought after and studied by scholars, students and practitioners in Britain and across the English-speaking world, but are not always readibly available individually. The collection charts the development of Greenfield's views of social reality as human invention, and explores strands of argument on the nature of knowledge, on admininstrative theory and research, on values, on the limits of science and the importance of human subjectivity, truth and reality. The volume is concluded by a discussion between Greenfield and Peter Ribbins, which reflects on Greenfield's career and elaborates on the range of his complex and often controversial ideas. |
Contents
A new perspective and its implications for schools | 1 |
An overview and critique | 25 |
3 ORGANIZATIONS AS TALK CHANCE ACTION AND EXPERIENCE ... | 51 |
4 ORGANIZATION THEORY AS IDEOLOGY | 72 |
Discovering truth discovering self discovering organizations | 88 |
An anarchistic theory of organization | 117 |
7 THE DECLINE AND FALL OF SCIENCE IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION ... | 128 |
8 ON HODGKINSONS MORAL ART | 155 |
Whence and when cometh the phoenix? | 162 |
The making of the profession of educational administration | 192 |
Conversations between Thomas Greenfield and Peter Ribbins | 221 |
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