A Literature Analysis Of Educational Administration Research In Australia

With the development of educational activities, people begin to pay much attention to educational research. The educational administration comes from education itself. The educational administration research comes from education administration. The purpose of it is to explore the objective rules of educational administration. The educational administration research has a great gap at the level of development between countries. Over the years, America, The Great Britain and Australia are the most significant educational administration research countries. Journal of Educational Administration is a core journal hosted by ACEA in 1960s. Its founder, William G. Walker, is the first educational administration professor in Australia. All of the articles published in JEA in Australia from Vol.43 to 47 during 2005 to 2009 are the objects of the research, and meanwhile, the articles published in JEA from 38 to 42 during 2000 to 2004 are the objects of comparative analysis. The essay types, research subjects and research methods are the main body to discuss and analyze the actuality and direction of Australian educational administration research. The purpose of the research is to recommend some suggestions on the possible essay types, research subjects and research methods. This research is made up with the following five parts:Part One:Introduction. As the beginning of this research, this part mainly presents the research background, research situation, the research content and some basic statement of the core concepts, the procedure and methods as well as the purpose of this research and its significance.Part Two:the analysis of the essay types about JEA articles. It mainly includes three types:research paper, general review and theoretical and conceptual paper.Part Three:the analysis of research subjects about JEA articles. It mainly includes educational leadership research, educational administration system, school effectiveness and improvement research as well as education equity research.Part Four:the analysis of research methods about JEA articles. It gives the presentation of some characteristics on research methods.Part Five:conclusion and enlightenment. It discusses the tendency of educational administration research in Australia, and the enlightenment to our country's educational administration research on the basis o above research.We need to make it appropriate for our country's economic and social development situation hen we use Australian educational administration research for reference. What's the emphasis of educational administration research in the future? It needs us to concern deeply. We can find out a pattern that most suitable for our own country's reality.