Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to sharpen the intellectual identity of the field of educational administration (EA) and to understand its scholarly boundaries by comparing between the writings of this field and those of the field of organisational behaviour (OB), an area of study usually located in faculties of management, and share many commonalities with EA. Design/methodology/a…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is twofold, to answer two questions: how do senior educational administration (EA) field members perceive the field’s scholarly aims and boundaries and the meaning of their intellectual work? and what are the similarities and differences between “outsider” and “insider” perceptions of the field’s major purposes and directions? Design/methodo…
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the legacies of the Journal of Educational Administration ( JEA) since its foundation in 1963 to the present (2011) and to illuminate the main contributions of the Journal to the academic field of educational administration (EA) worldwide. Design/methodology/approach – The method employed in analysing the Journal’s articles was “qua…
Purpose – Based on a qualitative content analysis of 57 curricula vitae of authors who published their work in the major journals of the educational administration (EA) field, this paper seeks to display the career of EA authors and to suggest some epistemological implications for the field. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis is based on both quantitative and qualitative modes o…