An Australian Perspective
Colin Evers is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne and co-author of Knowing Educational Administration. Judith Chapman is Professor of Education at the University of Western Australia and editor of School-Based Decision-Making and Democracy and Bureaucracy.
Preface viii Contributors x Introduction xii Colin W. Evers and Judith D. Chapman 1 Theory in Educational Administration 1 Gabriele Lakomski and Colin W. Evers 2 Educational Organisations as Systems 18 Gabriele Lakomski and Felicity Haynes 3 Subjectivity and the Creation of Organisations 34 Peter C. Gronn 4 Critical Theory of Educational Administration 49 Richard Bates 5 Cultural Theory in Educational Administration 60 Lawrence Angus 6 Ethics in Educational Administration 81 Fazal Rizvi 7 Towards Coherence in Administrative Theory9 7 Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski 8 Cross-national Exchange and Australian Education Policy1 10 Margaret Vickers 9 New Patterns for Managing Schools and School Systems 132 Hedley Beare 10 The Provision of Non-government Schooling in Australia: Retrospect and Prospect 153 Maurice Ryan and Helen Sungaila 11 The Provision of Education and the Allocation of Resources 170 Brian J.