THE EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATOR: A SKETCH FOR DISCUSSION Available to Purchase

This paper suggests that educational administration has not as yet closely examined the questions of political and social philosophy which underlie many of the decisions made by educational administrators in local government of education in England. The author seeks to examine a number of contextual factors within which philosophical issues might be discussed. These contextual factors are: the dimensions of the educational administrator's functions: the overlap between administration and policy‐making: the corporate management structure: and the incremental nature of educational policy‐making. It is concluded that the developing area of public policy analysis is the likely starting point for assistance with the philosophical issues, though even here theories about policies and their outcomes are few and far between.