The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration

Introduction--Knowledge Base Problems in Educational Administration Part I: Framing the Debate: Philosophical, Historical, and Practical Issues The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Postpositivist Reflections James Joseph Scheurich The Myth of a Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Janet Littrell and William Foster Building a Professional Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Opportunities and Obstacles Paul V. Bredeson The Knowledge Base in School Administration: Historical Footings and Emerging Trends Joseph Murphy A Knowledge Base for Educational Administration: Notes from the Field Robert Donmoyer Craft Knowledge and Institutional Constraints Rodney Muth Organizational Counterproductivism in Educational Administration Michael Imber Narrative Knowledge and Educational Administration: The Stories That Guide Our Practice Gary L. Anderson and Bonnie Page Part II: Hearing Traditionally Excluded Voices: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Educational Administration A Cup Half Full: A Gender Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Charol Shakeshaft How Gender and Ethnicity Interact in the Practice of Educational Administration: The Case of Hispanic Female Superintendents Flora Ida Ortiz and David Jude Ortiz Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Quest for a Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Vivian Ikpa Lessons of Leadership: A Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Jayminn Sulir Sanford Fe/Male Voices: Leadership and the Knowledge Base Rosemary Papalewis Part III: Adding New Points of View: Alternative Theoretical Approaches and Models The Micropolitics of Education Joseph Blase Developments in Theory and Practice: An Opportunity to Examine the Impact of the Environment on School Organizations Rodney T. Ogawa The Preparation of Educational Leaders and Rational Choice Theory Tyll van Geel Needed: A Knowledge Base that Promotes Creativity--Toward a Rhetorical Knowledge Base for Educational Administration Jane Clark Lindle A Constructivist View of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Nona A. Prestine An Otherist Poststructural Perspective of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration Colleen A. Capper Theoretical Pluralism in Educational Administration Daniel E. Griffiths Contributors Index