Educational Administration: Theory, Research and Practice - Softcover

Hoy, Wayne K.; Miskel, Cecil G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070306451 ISBN 13: 9780070306455

Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education, 1995

Synopsis

This text provides a synthesis of theory and research in organizational behaviour as it applies to the practice of educational administration. Organizational theory can be taught at either the introductory or advanced levels in educational administration curriculums.

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TEACHING AND LEARNING THEORY: The sixth edition is one of the few educational administration texts with a comprehensive analysis of teaching and learning theory (Chapter 3).
ADDED COVERAGE: A critical theory perspective on power and politics has been added to Chapter 7. A new section on enabling bureaucracies in Chapter 4 illustrates bureaucracies that work and have positive outcomes. An updated and reorganized Chapter 5 on the individual and motivation helps students understand proven strategies for motivating teachers and students and includes an original model of teacher and collective efficacy and its impact on student learning.
CASE STUDIES: Each chapter now ends with an administrative case study that applies theory and research to practice. Each case illustrates a real contemporary problem.
LATEST RESEARCH: More than 200 studies and analyses have been added to bring the most current theory and research to bear on the problems of practice.
COMPREHENSIVE: This is the most comprehensive review of theory and research in educational administration available. It provides a thorough analysis of organizational politics, describes a number of specific ways to measure the climate of schools, and presents the latest conceptual analyses and research findings on school effectiveness.
SYSTEMS APPROACH: The text uses a social systems approach to synthesize the four basic elements of schools (structure, culture, the individual, and politics) as well as the key processes of administration (decision making, leadership, and communication).
THEORY TO PRACTICE: Each chapter begins with a theoretical analysis of some critical aspect of administration, examines the empirical research on the subject, and concludes with practical applications.
SHARED DECISION MAKING: A simplified model of shared decision making guides principals into deciding the most appropriate times and ways to involve teachers in decision making.
COMPING GUIDELINE: First-quality text, a 'known quantity' that Educational Administration professors will want to see.
BOOK'S POSITION: The most comprehensive synthesis available of theory and research in organizational behavior as it applies to the practice of Educational Administration.

About the Author

Wayne K. Hoy, former chair of the department of educational administration, associate dean of academic affairs, and distinguished professor at Rutgers University, is now the Novice Fawcett Chair in Educational Administration at The Ohio State University. Professor Hoy received his B. A. from Lock Haven State College in 1959 and his D. Ed. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1965. His primary research interests are theory and research in administration, the sociology of organizations, and the social psychology of administration. In 1973, he received the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from Rutgers University; in 1987, he was given the Alumni Award for Professional Research from the Graduate School of Education; in 1991, he received the Excellence in Education Award from The Pennsylvania State University; and in 1992, he was given the Meritorious Research Award from the Eastern Educational Research Association. He is past secretary-treasurer of the National Conference of Professors of Educational Administration (NCPEA) and is past president of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA). He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration, the McGill Journal of Education, and the Journal of Research and Development in Education. Professor Hoy is coauthor with Professors D. J. Willower and T. L. Eidell of The School and Pupil Control Ideology (1967), with Patrick Forsyth of Effective Supervision: Theory into Practice (1986), and with John Tarter and Robert Kottkamp, Open Schools-Healthy Schools: Measuring Organizational Climate (1991). He has been described by the Australian Institute of Educational Administration as one of "the world's most widely read authors in the field of Educational Administration." Professor Hoy has written more than a hundred books, articles, chapters, and papers. His most recent books are Administrators Solving the Problems of Practice, (Allyn & Bacon, 1995) with C. J. Tarter; The Road to Open and Healthy Schools (Corwin, 1997) with C. J. Tarter; Quality Middle Schools (Corwin, 1998) with Dennis Sabo.

Since October 1988, Cecil G. Miskel has been dean of and a professor in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. He served the University of Utah as a professor and chairperson of the Department of Educational Administration from 1982 to 1983 and dean of the Graduate School of Education from 1983 to 1988. He holds a doctor of education degree from Oklahoma State University. In addition, to being a co-author of the five editions of Education Administration, he has published widely in a variety of scholarly journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0070306451
• ISBN 13: 9780070306455
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 523