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Pity the Poor Professor of Educational Administration: The Puzzlements of Knowledge and of Practice.
Peer reviewedBurlingame, Martin – Journal of Educational Administration, 1985
Professors of educational administration are being pressed to hold one of three conflicting viewpoints about knowledge and practice: "behavioral science,""symbolic," or "critical." Using Rein's notion of stories, the author urges professors to debate these viewpoints among themselves but use stories to study…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
Peer reviewedWebb, Graham – Higher Education, 1992
Several different philosophical approaches to general educational development in higher education are discussed and compared, including (1) positivist epistemology, a pragmatic, empirical perspective; (2) development of curricula promoting interpretation based on understanding; and (3) critical theory, which espouses development of people in…
Descriptors: College Curriculum, College Role, Comparative Analysis, Curriculum Development
