Examines the changes in educational administration practice and theory, and the changing political, economic and social contexts which have engendered these transformations.

Colin Evers is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne and co-author of Knowing Educational Administration. Judith Chapman is Professor of Education at the University of Western Australia and editor of School-Based Decision-Making and Democracy and Bureaucracy.

Preface viii
Contributors x
Introduction xii
Colin W. Evers and Judith D. Chapman
1 Theory in Educational Administration 1
Gabriele Lakomski and Colin W. Evers
2 Educational Organisations as Systems 18
Gabriele Lakomski and Felicity Haynes
3 Subjectivity and the Creation of Organisations 34
Peter C. Gronn
4 Critical Theory of Educational Administration 49
Richard Bates
5 Cultural Theory in Educational Administration 60
Lawrence Angus
6 Ethics in Educational Administration 81
Fazal Rizvi
7 Towards Coherence in Administrative Theory9 7
Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski
8 Cross-national Exchange and Australian Education Policy1 10
Margaret Vickers
9 New Patterns for Managing Schools and School Systems 132
Hedley Beare
10 The Provision of Non-government Schooling in Australia:
Retrospect and Prospect 153
Maurice Ryan and Helen Sungaila
11 The Provision of Education and the Allocation of Resources 170
Brian J.