Is There a Place for 'Craft Theory' in Education Administration? Yes, But not in the way Battersby Suggests
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Educational Management & Administration
- Vol. 16 (1), 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1177/174114328801600108
Abstract
In EMA last year David Battersby argued that the theorising of practitioners - 'craft theory' - is as valid as the theorising of academic experts; by imposing theories experts make practitioners dependent. But would 'craft theory' change the world...Keywords
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