Robert Donmoyer is Professor, Educational Policy & Leadership, The Ohio State University. He is co-editor, with Raylene Kos, of At-Risk Students: Portraits, Policies, Programs, and Practices, also published by SUNY Press. Michael Imber is Professor, Educational Policy & Leadership, University of Kansas. James Joseph Scheurich is Assistant Professor, Educational Administration, The University of Texas at Austin.

The editors of this book maintain that discussions of a knowledge base in educational administration have typically been limited to a fairly traditional range of scholarly commentary reflective of the status quo within departments of educational administration over the past several decades. Other views, such as feminist views, race/ethnic-based orientations, those that dispute the very idea of a knowledge base, and those that simply expand the traditional range, have been given little attention within the knowledge-base discourse. The purpose of this book is, thus, to open up this discourse by broadening the range of viewpoints being considered.

• Introduction—Knowledge Base Problems in Educational Administration Part I: Framing the Debate: Philosophical, Historical, and Practical Issues The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Postpositivist ReflectionsJames Joseph Scheurich The Myth of a Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationJanet Littrell and William Foster Building a Professional Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Opportunities and ObstaclesPaul V. Bredeson The Knowledge Base in School Administration: Historical Footings and Emerging TrendsJoseph Murphy A Knowledge Base for Educational Administration: Notes from the FieldRobert Donmoyer Craft Knowledge and Institutional ConstraintsRodney Muth Organizational Counterproductivism in Educational AdministrationMichael Imber Narrative Knowledge and Educational Administration: The Stories That Guide Our PracticeGary L. Anderson and Bonnie Page Part II: Hearing Traditionally Excluded Voices: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Educational Administration A Cup Half Full: A Gender Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationCharol Shakeshaft How Gender and Ethnicity Interact in the Practice of Educational Administration: The Case of Hispanic Female SuperintendentsFlora Ida Ortiz and David Jude Ortiz Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and the Quest for a Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationVivian Ikpa Lessons of Leadership: A Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationJayminn Sulir Sanford Fe/Male Voices: Leadership and the Knowledge BaseRosemary Papalewis Part III: Adding New Points of View: Alternative Theoretical Approaches and Models The Micropolitics of EducationJoseph Blase Developments in Theory and Practice: An Opportunity to Examine the Impact of the Environment on School OrganizationsRodney T. Ogawa The Preparation of Educational Leaders and Rational Choice TheoryTyll van Geel Needed: A Knowledge Base that Promotes Creativity—Toward a Rhetorical Knowledge Base for Educational AdministrationJane Clark Lindle A Constructivist View of the Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationNona A. Prestine An Otherist Poststructural Perspective of the Knowledge Base in Educational AdministrationColleen A. Capper Theoretical Pluralism in Educational AdministrationDaniel E. Griffiths Contributors Index