Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices - Hardcover

Lunenburg, Fred C.; Ornstein, Allan C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0534608825 ISBN 13: 9780534608828

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2003

Synopsis

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES, the best-selling, most comprehensive and respected text on the market, discusses all topics covered by other educational administration texts, and MORE: culture, change, curriculum, human resources administration, diversity, effective teaching strategies, and supervision of instruction. Lunenburg and Ornstein include more exciting pedagogical features than any other text, and topics are covered in a direct and easy-to-understand manner, with an excellent blend of theory and practice.

About this title

About the Author:

Fred C. Lunenburg is Professor and Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Research and Doctoral Studies in Educational Leadership at Sam Houston University. Prior to moving to university teaching, he served as a high school principal and superintendent of schools in Minnesota and Wisconsin. He has authored or co-authored 18 books, including THE PRINCIPALSHIP (with Beverly Irby), published by Wadsworth Cengage Learning.

Review:

"This is an excellent text that I chose over several other texts I reviewed in depth. Its greatest strengths are the Pedagogical Features...and the comprehensiveness of its chapters...I find the Lunenburg & Ornstein book highly satisfactory and so do my students."

"I think this is an excellent book. The authors have amassed and distilled an immense amount of useful information from so many various fields. I think its greatest strength is that it takes a rather dry and dull subject and makes it understandable and at times interesting. It is also a good book for administrators to retain in their personal libraries as a resource."

"[This text] provides educators with encyclopedic and pragmatic views relevant to contemporary organizational issues that impact administrators, teachers, students, and staff members. It also provides educational leaders and aspiring educational leaders with pertinent information to base their day-to-day decisions and actions as they encounter leadership challenges within their organization."

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0534608825
• ISBN 13: 9780534608828
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 704