CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: KNOWLEDGE BASE PROBLEMS IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION -- PART I. FRAMING THE DEBATE: PHILOSOPHICAL, HISTORICAL, AND PRACTICAL ISSUES -- The Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Postpositivist Reflections by James Joseph Scheurich -- The Myth of a Knowledge Base in Administration by Janet Littrell and William Foster -- Building a Professional Knowledge Base in Educational Administration: Opportunities and Obstacles by Paul V. Bredeson -- The Knowledge Base in School Administration: Historical Footings and Emerging Trends by Joseph Murphy -- A Knowledge Base for Educational Administration: Notes from the Field by Robert Donmoyer -- Craft Knowledge and Institutional Constraints by Rodney Muth -- Organizational Counterproductivism in Educational Administration by Michael Imber -- Narrative Knowledge and Educational Administration: The Stories that Guide Our Practice by Gary L. Anderson and Bonnie Page -- PART II. HEARING TRADITIONALLY EXCLUDED VOICES: RACE, ETHNICITY, AND GENDER IN EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION -- A Cup Half Full: A Gender Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration by Charol Shakeshaft -- How Gender and Ethnicity Interact in the Practice of Educational Administration: The Case of Hispanic Female Superintendents by Flora Ida Ortiz and David Jude Ortiz -- Gender, Race, Ethnicity and the Quest for a Knowledge Base in Educational Administration by Vivian Ikpa -- Lessons of Leadership: A Critique of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration by Jayminn Sulir Sanford, Ed.D. -- Fe/male Voices: Leadership and the Knowledge Base by Rosemary Papalewis -- PART III. ADDING NEW POINTS OF VIEW: ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL APPROACHES AND MODELS -- The Micropolitics of Education by Joseph Blase.

Developments in Theory and Practice: An Opportunity to Examine the Impact of the Environment on School Organizations by Rodney T. Ogawa -- The Preparation of Educational Leaders and Rational Choice Theory by Tyll van Geel -- Needed: A Knowledge Base that Promotes Creativity-Toward a Rhetorical Knowledge Base for Educational Administration by Jane Clark Lindle -- A Constructivist View of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration by Nona A. Prestine -- An Otherist Poststructural Perspective of the Knowledge Base in Educational Administration by Colleen A. Capper -- Theoretical Pluralism in Educational Administration by Daniel E. Griffiths -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U.