An International Perspective of Pre-Service Preparatory Programs in Educational Administration.

A comparative analysis of preparatory programs for educational administrators in Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand is presented in this paper. The purposes of the paper are to describe similarities and differences in educational administration programs, to compare selected characteristics of programs in these countries with programs in the United States, and to identify common concerns that may merit further attention. Characteristics of programs compared include stage of development, enrollments, type of students, program content and structure, and instructional methods. These countries all participated in the parallel studies of preparatory programs initiated by the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and the University Council for Educational Administration and conducted by researchers in each of the five countries. This paper draws on the reports of those studies submitted to the 1978 International Intervisitation Program at Vancouver, British Columbia, in May, 1978. (Author/JM)