Towards a postcolonial and decolonising educational administration history

This article examines the increasing postcolonial and decolonising literature as it relates to non-Western countries and the history of their educational systems undergoing internationalisation and globalisation. The first section reviews a number of historiographical developments in the twentieth century that laid a foundation for a more cultural and global view and to include marginalised populations. The second section examines the critiques of educational history from postcolonial and decolonising perspectives, and the colonisation of mind critiques, including the recent indigenous research methodology movement. The third section explores two main challenges for the field of educational administration history are discussed: developing ways of understanding countries that operate under very different paradigms than Western states, and which are undergoing societal changes and stresses that Western states are not experiencing; and a revised research and methodology that captures problems of recolonisation/neoimperialism, the subaltern personality, and struggles to maintain indigenous cultures and roles. In order to respond to these conditions, educational administration, like other fields has to generate new models, theories, and modes of practice that derive from the conditions that postcolonial developing states face including identity formation, values, role construction and institutional arrangements.     

Methodological individualism,educational administration,and leadership

There are two major categories of explanation for organisational performance: structural and individual. With the shift away from systems-theoretic accounts that occurred in the 1980s, structural explanations have been replaced increasingly by the individualism of leadership and leader-centric explanations, especially when it comes to schools. In this paper, we argue that leader-centric accounts involve a commitment to methodological individualism and that there are four serious problems with this view. First, it is logically difficult to describe individual actions without recourse to structures. Second, methodological individualism fosters a centralised mindset inviting the attribution of leadership where none may exist. Third, evidence for distributed cognition compromises leader-centrism. And fourth, administrative tasks themselves are often highly structured. In response to these problems, we urge a more balanced approach to organisational functioning, one that involves both structures and individuals.     

普林斯顿大学的发展历程、教育理念及其启示

经过260多年的发展,普林斯顿大学从一所宗教教育机构成为世俗的世界一流大学,一直坚守小而精的办学传统,形成了自己独特的教育理念。它崇尚"为国家服务,为社会服务",通过营造一种平静的环境,致力于质量而非数量上的追求。普林斯顿大学的经验对我国建设世界一流大学具有重要的启示作用。     

别有洞天的教育史研究

20世纪八九十年代,教育史研究呈现第一热潮,推出了一批重要的研究成果,这对当今的教育史研究者形成了巨大的压力。反观教育科学园地特别是课程与教学论学科的空前繁荣,与第八次课程改革紧密结合,不仅有重要的学术价值,而且还有颇高的经济效益。进入21世纪,教育史研究应该进一步解放思想,坚持实事求是的原则,遵循一切历史都是现代史的研究思路,订正教育史研究中的廖误,那么,教育史研究就会别有洞天,大有可为。     

A bibliography of educational administration

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论素质教育与教育管理

素质教育的本质是现代教育，关注人的全面发展。在现代教育管理的人本原则和方法论中，情感因素、人际关系以及文化内涵，都是值得思考的问题。     

Modernisation and the field of educational administration

In this article I examine New Labour’s approach to the transformation of education by focusing on Michael Barber’s account of policy delivery, and I show that while historical analysis is relevant to policy processes it is absent in the reality of design. I provide a critical evaluation of knowledge claims underpinning policy in England before I go on to show the importance of history both for and about policy and practice in education, where a specific claim is made for its relevance to futuring and strategising.     

教务管理系统信息化的实现

教务管理系统软件开发的必要性及其使用中对教学管理效率的提高.C/S模式和B/S模式结合的理念.界面设计要简捷,方便,可靠.数据库用户访问安全性讨论.