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A History of Thought and Practice in Educational Administration & Handbook of Research on Educational Adminstrationreviewed by Jacob W. Getzels - 1993 Title: A History of Thought and Practice in Educational Administration & Handbook of Research on Educational Adminstration Author(s): F. R. Campbell, T. Fleming, L. J. Newell Publisher: John Wiley, New York ISBN: 0807728446, Pages: , Year: Search for book at Amazon.com In the early 1950s and 1960s I was quite
active in research on educational administration. Indeed, the
Handbook of Research on Educational Administration devotes
an entire chapter to the work.(n1) Beginning in the mid-1960s my
attention was drawn elsewhere, and I have not been seriously
engaged in educational administration since. But first interests,
like first loves, die hard, and so I still look with avidity into
the educational administration literature as it comes to hand.
What came to hand some while ago were two histories of
educational administration published within a year of each other,
one, a volume entitled A History of Thought and Practice in
Educational Administration and the other, a monograph-length
chapter entitled "A Century's Quest for a Knowledge Base" by
Culbertson in the authoritative Handbook of Research on
Educational Administration.(n2) I was astonished by the
profusion of anomalies--not simply interpretive differences but
substantive irregularities of the most flagrant kind. In what
follows, I examine in some detail four of the anomalies.
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