Educational Administration

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 viiiContributors xIntroduction xiiColin W. Evers and Judith D. Chapman1 Theory in Educational Administration 1Gabriele Lakomski and Colin W. Evers2 Educational Organisations as Systems 18Gabriele Lakomski and Felicity Haynes3 Subjectivity and the Creation of Organisations 34Peter C. Gronn4 Critical Theory of Educational Administration 49Richard Bates5 Cultural Theory in Educational Administration 60Lawrence Angus6 Ethics in Educational Administration 81Fazal Rizvi7 Towards Coherence in Administrative Theory9 7Colin W. Evers and Gabriele Lakomski8 Cross-national Exchange and Australian Education Policy1 10Margaret Vickers9 New Patterns for Managing Schools and School Systems 132Hedley Beare10 The Provision of Non-government Schooling in Australia:Retrospect and Prospect 153Maurice Ryan and Helen Sungaila11 The Provision of Education and the Allocation of Resources 170Brian J.