Centering Educational Administration
Subtitle: Cultivating Meaning, Community, Responsibility (Topics in Educational Leadership)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: February 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780805842388
Subjects: Educational Administration; School administrators; Education / Teaching; Training of; Education; USA; School management and organiza; Administration - General; Leadership; Education / Administration; Organizations & Institutions; School management and organization; Study and teaching (Higher)
Description: Starratt enters the national conversation among educational administration scholars and practitioners about what constitutes the core of their knowledge and practice. In Part I, he develops three main themes--cultivating meaning, community, and moral responsibility--which he then positions against national themes about the core of educational administration: school improvement, democratic community, and social justice. Rather than focusing on the routine managerial tasks normally associated with school administration (budgeting, personnel and legal problems, time and resource management, etc.), this text asks aspiring school leaders to reflect first on the underlying philosophical and sociological perspectives that constitute the substance of administrative work in education.