GREENFIELD ON EDUCATIONAL
                   ADMINISTRATION
       This collection is a representative set of ten of the key papers which Thomas
       Greenfield,  arguably  the  doyen  of  contemporary  theorists  of  educational
       administration, has published over the last twenty years. His writings as they
       appear  are  eagerly  sought  after  and  studied  by  scholars,  students  and
       practitioners in Britain and across the English-speaking world, and increasingly
       beyond it, but are not always readily available individually.
        The collection charts the development of Greenfield’s views of social reality
       as  human  invention,  and  explores  strands  of  argument  on  the  nature  of
       knowledge, on administrative theory and research, on values, on the limits of
       science and the importance of human subjectivity, truth and reality. The volume
       is  concluded by a discussion between Thomas Greenfield and Peter Ribbins,
       which reflects on Greenfield’s career and elaborates on the range of his complex
       and often controversial ideas.
        Thomas  Greenfield  was  formerly  Professor  at  the  Ontario  Institute  for
       Studies in Education. Peter Ribbins is Reader in Educational Management at the
       University of Birmingham. 
         GREENFIELD ON
          EDUCATIONAL
         ADMINISTRATION
         Towards a Humane Science
            Thomas Greenfield
            and Peter Ribbins
           London and New York
                       First published 1993
                         by Routledge
                   11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
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                  © 1993 Thomas Greenfield and Peter Ribbins
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                   ISBN 0-203-97356-9 Master e-book ISBN
                      ISBN 0-415-08045-2 (hbk)
                       0-415-08080-0 (pbk)
                 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
                      Greenfield, Thomas Barr.
               Greenfield on educational administration: towards a humane
                science/by Thomas Greenfield and Peter Ribbins; with a
                    foreword by Christopher Hodgkinson.
                          p. cm.
                    Includes bibliographical references.
                 ISBN 0-415-08045-2.—ISBN 0-415-08080-0 (pbk)
               1. School management and organization. 2. School management
               and organization—Social aspects. I. Ribbins, Peter. II. Title.
                   III. Title: On educational administratration
                     LB2805.G695 1993 92–160303
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