The History of Educational Administration Viewed Through Its Textbooks

by Glass, Thomas E.; Mason, Robert; Eaton, William; Parker, James C.; Carver, Fred D.

• ISBN13: 9781578860807
• ISBN10: 1578860806
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-26
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

The History of Educational Administration Viewed Through Its Texts provides the reader a history of the development of the professional field of educational administration. From the Common School Era of the 1840s through the Era of Accountability in 2000, leaders of the profession wrote textbooks to both inform and instruct those desiring to follow in their footsteps. Historical leaders such as Elwood Cubberley, George Strayer, George Counts, and Jesse Sears are identified, and the ways in which their work influenced the profession and the public schools is examined. The various management themes running through the practice of educational administration over a 150-year period are also discussed. Among these themes is the administrator as a: _

Author Biography

Thomas E. Glass is a professor of educational leadership at the University of Memphis

Table of Contents

Preface	v
1 Introduction: A New Profession and a New Textbook Literature	1	(12)
Thomas Glass
2 From Idea to Ideology: School-Administration Texts, 1820-1914	13	(18)
Robert Mason
3 From Ideology to Conventional Wisdom: School-Administration Texts, 1915-1933	31	(14)
William Eaton
4 From Conventional Wisdom to Concept: School-Administration Texts, 1934-1945	45	(30)
James C. Parker
5 A Return to Rhetoric: School-Administration Texts, 1946-1955	75	(12)
Fred D. Carver
6 Factualism to Theory, Art to Science: School-Administration Texts, 1955-1985	87	(22)
Thomas E. Glass
7 A Retreat from Theory in an Era of Reform: 1985-2000	109	(18)
Thomas E. Glass
8 An Overview: School-Administration Texts, 1820-2000	127	(16)
Thomas E. Glass
References	143	(10)
Index	153	(8)
About the Authors	161