Bir Disiplin Olarak Eğitim Yönetiminin Kavram Haritası Üzerine Boylamsal Bir İnceleme

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the field of Educational Administration (EA) through the concepts used in the field. For this purpose, the concepts used in the scientific publications of the field were discussed in terms of their relation with other disciplines as well as the reasons and results of the concept usage habits. In this context, the study was designed in the form of documentary analysis and the data was collected through documents selected based on criterion sampling. Thus, the study group consisted of 596 doctoral dissertations completed between 1987-2019 in Turkey and 930 articles published in eight different refereed journals in Turkey between 1968-2019. Content analysis was employed to analyze the data and various visual tools were used to interpret them. The study showed that EA is a comprehensive field of study, which is thought to be in two sided interaction with the concepts used in the field. It was also found that there is variety in the definition and research topics of the field although certain issues and concepts such as leadership and commitment take much more place in literature. Besides, the results displayed that the concepts used in EA literature evolve mostly around positivist paradigm and basic disciplines such as psychology and administration.