... and its various aspects, that are alternatives to the mainstream systems‐scientific view of educational administration. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs a standard analytic philosophy methodology with a focus on argument structures found in epistemology. The approach is to argue...

... and materialists, used to thinking in terms of matter as a more stable substance. Education Administration Philosophy An inquest ordinarily seeks to determine the circumstances and causes of a death. We call the present effort a critical inquest because we intend to examine an alleged demise. We...

... the theorists′ personal perspectives, based on ethical choices, is followed with some suggestions as to how theorizing may proceed and, in so doing, avoid relying on a moral philosophy when attempting to understand administrative behaviour. The principal purpose here is to describe patterns of thinking among...

...Colin W. Evers; Gabriele Lakomski Offers a reply to Trevor Maddock′s philosophical critique of the authors′ work. Contains a brief summary of the authors′ research programme, located within a perspective on philosophy of educational administration, a series of short responses to some minor...

... requires a concrete rather than an abstract approach such as materialist pragmatism provides. Concludes with the thought that it is through the relentless criticism of all conceptualization that philosophy provides its service to educational administration. In this tradition, the term “pragmatism” refers...

... of educational leadership is considered by Smith and Blase to be currently dominant and they consider it to be “strongly influenced by the empiricist theory of knowledge”[ 1, p. 6 ]. Like most other “isms” within philosophy, what counts as empiricism has been variously conceived of. Some of this diversity...

... in administrative practice and preparation. Reviews relevant features of Dewey′s philosophy and shows implications for the use of reflective methods in educational administration. In Dewey, reflective methods are seen in the context of emotion and impulse, not as separated from them. If reflection is to play...