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Bates, Richard – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2006
After observing that texts in educational administration have largely failed to address the problem of the justice and fairness of social and educational arrangements, this article goes on to examine the necessary relationships between ethical leadership, community and the notion of social justice. Such relationships are argued to be necessarily…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Administration, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change
Bates, Richard – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. The opening essay examines the historical development of liberalism as a key to understanding the relations between the state, civil society, and the economy, and the development…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Foreign Countries, Ideology
Bates, Richard – 1981
Dominant theories of educational administration have viewed the field as a rational and technical science concerned with the bureaucratic control of education. These theories have recently come under attack for ideological and empirical reasons. More current theories characterize educational administration as less rational objective, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Administrators, Bureaucracy, Cultural Influences
Bates, Richard – 1985
This volume is part of a series of monographs from Australia devoted to outlining an alternative approach, based on neo-Marxist concepts, to educational administration. Beginning with a discussion of the contested relationship between the individual and the state, the politics of administration is set within the debate over liberalism, Marxism and…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Bureaucracy, Capitalism, Democracy