ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the scholarly field of educational administration or educational management. In April 1975 a conference was held at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, to honour the retirement of Roald Campbell, for forty years an influential figure in educational administration. The first and most obvious factor causing the boil-over after 1975 was that many of the practitioners and scholars associated with the early development of educational administration as a discrete field were being succeeded by a new group. A further factor which brought about changes is that educational administration is a derivative discipline, which has borrowed many of its concepts and models from psychology, sociology and economics and has also leant heavily upon allied fields like business administration and public administration. An educational administrator will simply not survive in the current climate unless he or she has skills in policy analysis.
