Browsing by Author "Marshall, David G."

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    Delivery of educational administration development programmes in the Commonwealth Caribbean
    (Jan-Apr., 1985) Marshall, David G.;
    The purpose of this paper is to suggest some directions that might be taken to address current dilemmas in the professional preparation and development of school administrators, especially those in developing areas. It presents a framework, which was developed in Manitoba, Canada, to guide decisions regarding the preservice and continuing development of school administrators
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    The delivery of professional preparation and development programs for school administrators: The Commonwealth Caribbean
    Marshall, David G.;
    This paper explores certain dilemmas in the professional preparation of school administrators, particularly in developing nations. It begins by reviewing the issue of specialist preparation and development for educational administrators, examining arguments for and against specialist training. A discussion of the extent of Canada's commitment to professional training for educational administrators provides a context in which to describe a framework developed in Manitoba for planning the preservice and continuing development of administrators. This framework hinges on the establishment of a strong link between the purposes of and the delivery methods for professional training. The framework assumes the existence of a continuum of skills important to administrators, the need to assess an administrator's progress along the continuum, and the need to develop preservice and inservice programmes that take both the skill to be taught and the skills already learned into account. Although preservice programmes should probably focus on basic "survival" skills and inservice progammes on skills for handling problems developing in practice, the traditional content of such programmes is usually the reverse, as a discussion of Manitoba's system illustrates. The paper concludes by applying these observations to the unique situation found in the Caribbean
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    The professional preparation and development of educational administrators in Commonwealth developing areas
    Marshall, David G.;
    This document comprises 14 presented papers and related conference materials from the symposium. Papers of relevance to the Commonwealth Caribbean are: "The Instructional Process in Educational Administration: The Case Methods Approach," by Gwendoline Williams; "Critical Issues in the Professional Preparation and Development of Educational Administrators in Developing Areas," by Earle H. Newton; "The Delivery of Professional Preparation and Development Programmes for School Administrators: The Commonwealth Caribbean," by David G. Marshall; "Nature and Needs in the Field of Educational Administration in the Commonwealth Caribbean," by Errol Miller; "Managing Systems in the Caribbean," by Rudolph Goodridge; "Management Information Systems as a Tool for Educational Administrators in the Commonwealth Caribbean," by Jack Heuvel; and "Sociological Issues in the Preparation of Educational Administrators in Developing Areas with Special Reference to the Caribbean," by Anthony Layne. This conference report also includes a preface by Marshall, and opening address by Billie A. Miller, the Minister of Education and Culture in Barbados; and appendixes consisting of materials announcing the symposium and the symposium's schedule