Eugenie Samier - Ethical Foundations for Educational Administration

Professor Christopher Hodgkinson

Essays in honour of Christopher Hodgkinson

Edited by Eugenie A. Samier
with Kristina Mihailova

First published 2003

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Derek J. Allison is Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is editor of Reform and Relevance in Schooling (OISE Press 1991). He has contributed articles on principalship to Educational Administration Quarterly and chapters on educational administration theory to the International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration (Kluwer Academic Publishers 1996), on CEOs and Boards of Education in Effective School District Leadership (SUNY Press 1995), and on secondary school administration in Contemporary Educational Issues (Copp Clark Pitman 1993).

Richard J. Bates is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education at Deakin University, Australia. He has been Dean of the faculty and is the first Professor of Education in Australia to have been awarded a personal chair (1985). He has also taught at the London Institute of Education (UK) and Massey University (New Zealand). His international reputation rests primarily on his contributions to the debate over the New Sociology of Education and on his work in developing an alternative tradition of theory and research in educational administration. He has published some sixty journal articles and books. Some of his most recent theoretical titles are The Bird that Sets Itself on Fire: Thom Greenfield and the Renewal of Educational Administration (OISE Press 1995), 'Critical theory and education administration' (in C. W. Evers and J. D. Chapman, Educational Administration: An Australian Perspective, Allen and Unwin 1995), 'On knowing: Cultural and critical approaches to educational administration' ( Educational Management and Administration, 1993), 'Conflict, contradiction and crisis' (in M. Muetzelfeldt (ed.) Society, State and Politics, Pluto Press 1992), and 'Leadership and the rationalisation of society' (in W. J. Smyth (ed.) Critical Perspectives on Educational Leadership, Falmer Press 1989).

Colin W. Evers is a Professor of Education at the University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. His teaching and research interests are in educational administration, philosophy of education, and research methodology. Ongoing research projects include the development of a systematic theory of educational administration, as well as of naturalistic conceptions of educational theory. In addition to some seventy papers, he is the author (with Gabriel Lakomski) of three books on educational administration: Knowing Educational Administration (1991), Exploring Educational Administration (1996), and Doing Educational Administration (2000), all published by Pergamon/Elsevier. The ideas in these books have given rise to discussions in three Special Issues of journals, notably Educational Management and Administration (1993), Educational Administration Quarterly (1996), and the Journal of Educational Administration (2001). He has also edited (with J. D. Chapman) Educational Administration: An Australian Perspective (Allen and Unwin 1995), and (with K. C. Wong) Leadership for Quality Schooling (Routledge/Falmer 2001). As well as serving on a number of editorial boards, he is currently the editor (with K. C. Wong) of the journal International Studies in Educational Administration.

William Foster is Professor of Education in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies Department at Indiana University, Bloomington. He has extensively taught and researched in the areas of school leadership, critical theoretical perspectives on administration, organisation theory, and moral theory in leadership, and has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London. He has been on the editorial boards of the Educational Administration Quarterly and the Journal of School Leadership. He has authored or co-authored over seventeen chapters in books, twelve articles, and two monographs, including Paradigms and Promises: New Approaches to Educational Administration (Prometheus Books 1986).

Peter Gronn is Associate Professor of Education and Associate Dean (Teaching) in the Faculty of Education at Monash University. His research interests cover all aspects of leadership, with particular emphasis on learning leadership, the development of leaders, leadership models and types, and the connection between organisational culture, leadership and organisational learning. Recent publications include The Making of Educational Leaders (Cassell 1999), and a number of articles on leadership theory in the Journal of Management Development, Educational Management and Administration, Educational Administration Quarterly, and Leading and Managing.