Educational Leadership and Administration

Educational Leadership and Administration makes a real contribution in focusing scholars' attention of this key field on its relevant past and possible future. The selection of articles in this major work draws on regional knowledge from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand to offer researchers and academics a global perspective of the leading theories and ideas within educational leadership and administration. Drawn from the broad perspectives of behaviorism, structuralism, critical theory, and postmodernism, these articles and chapters represent the intellectual turning points of thinking in Educational Leadership and Administration, within the last 30-40 years.

Fenwick W. English is the R. Wendell Eaves Distinguished Professor of Educational Leadership in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. English is the "father" of the curriculum management audit, having directed the first such audit in Columbus, Ohio, in 1979. He also created the curriculum mapping process in the mid-seventies. He is the author or coauthor of over twenty books and one hundred journal articles. He has presented symposium papers at AERA and UCEA. English has held practitioner positions as principal, central office coordinator, assistant superintendent, and superintendent of schools. In 1988, Executive Educator magazine named him one of the nation's top six inservice speakers. He earned his BS and MS at the University of Southern California and his PhD at Arizona State University.