Teaching educational leadership and administration in Australia

Despite the ubiquity of programmes in educational administration and leadership little is known about the resources used to teach them. This article reviews the sources currently employed in such programmes in Australia by examining the textbooks, book chapters and journal articles specified for 53...

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Published in:Journal of educational administration and history 2008-08, Vol.40 (2), p.149-160
Main Authors: Bates, Richard, Eacott, Scott
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrator Education
Administrator Evaluation
Australia
Bibliometrics
Educational Administration
educational leadership
Foreign Countries
Information Sources
Instructional Leadership
Instructional Material Evaluation
Leadership Training
Meta Analysis
teaching
Textbooks
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Summary:Despite the ubiquity of programmes in educational administration and leadership little is known about the resources used to teach them. This article reviews the sources currently employed in such programmes in Australia by examining the textbooks, book chapters and journal articles specified for 53 separate units (papers) offered at 15 of the key institutions that responded to requests for copies of their reading lists. Surprisingly, few of the units prescribed textbooks (35), relying instead on book chapters (243) and journal articles (362). While there was a very eclectic spread of sources across institutions, 10 major themes emerged. However, there appeared to be little emphasis on Australian research on educational leadership and little reference to major Australian authors of the previous decades. This may be because the field has become global. The second part of the article therefore examines an audit of the contributions made by Australian authors to the global literature represented by leading journals in the field. The audit shows that during the period 1977-2007 an average of 12-13% of papers in key journals were contributed by Australian authors, perhaps more than might be expected given the comparative size of the Australian community.
ISSN:0022-0620
1478-7431
DOI:10.1080/00220620802210913