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A STUDY OF A LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION UTILIZING A NATURALISTIC PARADIGM
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify the multiple realities (what was heard, seen, and experienced) in an intensive four-week residential program of educational leadership conducted by the Institute of Educational Administration in Victoria, Australia, using a naturalistic paradigm. Program 16 involved interaction between 41 experienced educational leaders working independently or in groups on common educational, administrative, and leadership problems for 14 hours a day over four weeks. A set of complex situations developed in terms of the antecedent variables which were associated with various outputs. Thirteen teaching consultants drawn from Australia and the United States were employed to teach in the program. Attention was directed towards the development and operation of one of three syndicate groups into which 14 participants had been randomly assigned. Data were collected through participant observation which involved residency with the participants throughout the four-week program, interviews with participants, and the use of records and documentation. The data were analyzed by doing a content analysis, utilizing categorization and the Bales' interaction analysis technique. Two phases were identified in the development and operation of the syndicate. The subsequent changes which occurred in the syndicate's operation were associated with changes in the group's norms and six sessions-events in the formal program. Problems and issues related to the role of the syndicate consultant, the operation of the syndicate organization and the use of the syndicate by the participants and teaching consultant were isolated. Ten factors, four emotional, four task, and two unplanned, were associated with differing levels of participant interaction. The participants developed and used their own criteria of relevancy, immediacy, practicability, importance, and the performance of the teaching consultants to evaluate the program. Research questions related to the potential effect that such program factors as constancy, intensity, teaching methodologies, and the residential nature of the program had on participants were generated.
Subject Area
School administration
Recommended Citation
ANDREWS, KEITH CLIVE, "A STUDY OF A LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROGRAM CONDUCTED BY THE INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION UTILIZING A NATURALISTIC PARADIGM" (1983). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8314899.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8314899