The Write Stuff: A Study of Productive Scholars in Educational Administration

Tschannen‐Moran, Megan; Firestone, William A.; Hoy, Wayne K.; Johnson, Susan M.

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“…And what are the "settled" topics, versus what are the emerging, disputed, or conflicting topics? As noted by past authors in educational leadership, advances in any field need a concrete cumulative knowledge base to attend to the field's future direction; otherwise, we run the risk of allowing the field to decline and demise (Heck, 2015;Heck & Hallinger, 2005;Tschannen-Moran, Firestone, Hoy, & Moore-Johnson, 2000;Oplatka, 2009Oplatka, , 2010. The continued and strengthened topic diversification trend may warrant that the educational leadership research community focuses on sustained research efforts to resolve a set of well-defined problems in the field, as proposed by Heck (2015).…”

Section: Educational Leadership Research: Where To Go From Here?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated Text Data Mining Analysis of Five Decades of Educational Leadership Research Literature

Wang

Bowers

Fikis

2016

Educational Administration Quarterly

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The purpose of this study is to describe the underlying topics and the topic evolution in the 50-year history of educational leadership research literature. Method: We used automated text data mining with probabilistic latent topic models to examine the full text of the entire publication history of all 1,539 articles published in Educational Administration Quarterly (EAQ) from 1965 to 2014. Given the computationally intensive data analysis required by probabilistic topic models, relying on high-performance computing, we used a 10-fold crossvalidation to estimate the model in which we categorized each article in each year into one of 19 latent topics and illustrated the rise and fall of topics over the EAQ's 50-year history. Findings: Our model identified a total of 19 topics from the 1965 to 2014 EAQ corpus. Among them, five topics-inequity and social justice, female leadership, school leadership preparation and development, trust, and teaching and instructional leadership-gained research attention over the 50-year time period, whereas the research interest appears to have declined

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Section: Educational Leadership Research: Where To Go From Here?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Automated Text Data Mining Analysis of Five Decades of Educational Leadership Research Literature

Wang

Bowers

Fikis

2016

Educational Administration Quarterly

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“…The Task Force on Research and Inquiry in Educational Administration concurred. They indicated that the field lacks sustained and focused empirical inquiry that would result in meaningful judgements drawn about leadership preparation (Tschannen-Moran et al 2000). Further, much of the research that has been done in educational administration has been descriptive.…”

Section: The Need For Researchmentioning

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Partnerships for preparing leaders: what can we learn from PDS research?

Breault¹,

Breault²

2010

International Journal of Leadership in Education

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Researchers have long lamented the lack of research regarding the preparation of school leaders. In response, we offer lessons about school and university partnerships from exemplary professional development school (PDS) research to inform collaborative efforts for leadership preparation. We conducted an extensive literature review of 250 studies spanning a 15-year period. Based upon three levels of qualitative meta-synthesis, we identified 49 exemplary studies from the original 250. We then identified themes involving resources, change, and relationships. Based upon these themes, we concluded the following:• In partnerships, resources become a far more significant element in terms of both use and flexibility than they do in more traditional preparation programmes. • The nature of change in a partnership is more idiosyncratic because of the diverse stakeholders involved. • Relationships are a vital element in the success or failure of a partnership. Therefore, time and energy are necessary to develop and sustain relationships among stakeholders. • Partnerships should develop enabling bureaucracies in order to promote meaningful engagement among partners. • Organizational theory offers valuable insights regarding partnerships, but it remains largely an untapped resource in current partnership efforts.We conclude with recommendations for stakeholders interested in developing partnerships between leadership preparation programmes in universities and K-12 schools.In an era where educational leadership programmes are the subjects of significant scrutiny (Levine 2005), stakeholders in educational administration programmes have been challenged to rethink how they are preparing leaders for our nation's schools. To meet this challenge, we argue that programmes preparing educational leaders need to develop and nurture critical partnerships with the districts they currently serve. As Young et al.'s (2005) response to Levine indicates, partnerships between educational leadership programmes and school districts can provide seamless leadership development to support and sustain high-quality leadership.

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“…This has accounted for the implausibility to build consensus on important problems (Tschannen-Moran et al, 2000), or to accumulate knowledge about how to engage in practical activities or how to prepare students to do them successfully (Riehl et al, 2000).…”

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The field of educational administration

Oplatka

2009

Journal of Educational Administration

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Based on journal articles that focused on epistemological issues in the field (e.g. the field's nature, purposes, borders, knowledge base, uniqueness, etc.), this paper seeks to outline the intellectual discussions in the field of educational administration (EA) since the foundation of its major journals and suggest some lessons for the state of the field at the present time. Design/methodology/approach -The review is based on all papers, scholarly, historical or empirical, that observed philosophical, epistemological and methodological issues and concerns in this field. The papers were analyzed and coded by their purposes, arguments, epistemological questions, criticism, findings and insights. Practical implications -The major concluding epistemological message of this historical account is of "recycling," i.e. the field is typically embedded with debates over similar ideas, assumptions, and insights about EA as a field of study throughout the last five decades. Therefore, it is a time for radical changes in the understanding of the field's intellectual missions and boundaries. Originality/value -The historical overview is likely both to acquaint one with the historical scholarly streams, trends and debates in knowledge development of EA as a field of study, and help international field members understand and mould their professional identity.

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The Write Stuff: A Study of Productive Scholars in Educational Administration

Cited by 26 publications

References 29 publications

Automated Text Data Mining Analysis of Five Decades of Educational Leadership Research Literature

Automated Text Data Mining Analysis of Five Decades of Educational Leadership Research Literature

Partnerships for preparing leaders: what can we learn from PDS research?

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