Greenfield on Educational Administration

Towards a Humane Craft

Thomas Greenfield, Peter Ribbins, Peter Ribbins

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Routledge
14 January 1993

Organisation & management of education

This collection is a representative set of ten of the key papers which Thomas Greenfield, arguably the doyen of contemporary theories of educational administration, has published over the last twenty years. His writings as they

appear are eagerly sought after and studied by scholars, students and practitioners in Britain and across the English-speaking world, but are not always readibly available individually. The collection charts the development of Greenfield's

views of social reality as human invention, and explores strands of argument on the nature of knowledge, on admininstrative theory and research, on values, on the limits of science and the importance of human subjectivity, truth and reality. The volume is concluded by a discussion between Greenfield and Peter Ribbins, which reflects on Greenfield's career and elaborates on the range of his complex and often controversial ideas.

Edited by: Thomas Greenfield, Peter Ribbins, Peter Ribbins
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 589g
ISBN: 9780415080453
ISBN 10: 0415080452
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 14 January 1993
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1 Theory About Organization; Chapter 2 Research in Educational Administration in the United States and Canada; Chapter 3 Organizations as Talk, Chance, Action and Experience; Chapter 4 Organization Theory as Ideology; Chapter 5 The Man Who Comes Back through the Door in the Wall; Chapter 6 Against Group Mind; Chapter 7 The Decline and Fall of Science in Educational Administration; Chapter 8 On Hodgkinson’s Moral Art; Chapter 9 Re-Forming and Re-Valuing Educational Administration; Chapter 10 Science and Service; Chapter 11 Educational Administration as a Humane Science;

Thomas Greenfield was formerly Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education., Peter Ribbins is Reader in Educational Management at the University of Birmingham.

Reviews for Greenfield on Educational Administration: Towards a Humane Craft

`This is a most welcome text. ... I can do no other than to say that for me Greenfield was Education Management. ... An excellent book, sadly unique. A multiple copy `must' for Education Management library stocks.' - Educational Management and Administration `...a carefully compiled and structured selection which encapsulates Greenfield's philosophical journey.' - Educational Management and Administration `This is a most welcome text. Welcome on a least two counts. First, it brings together in a unique volume the `top ten' of Tom Greenfield's papers,...Second, it reinforces, for both Greenfield afficionados and novitiates, the stance that `organisations are in people, nothing beyond them, nothing less'...An excellent book, sadly unique. A multiple copy `must' for Education Management library stocks.' - Educational Management and Administration