Administrative Theory in International Perspective: A Review Essay
This book adds to a rapidly growing number of publications in comparative education. Its purpose is to study the "sharply contrasting provisions for the organization and administration of education . . . in one or more nations on each continent." It is pertinent to compare this publication with two classic works by I. L. Kandel: Comparative Education' and Types of A:dministration.2 For Kandel, educational administration and organization functioned in a total network of political, social, and economic forces, all of them affecting educational behavior and being affected by it. In his first work, Kandel confined his analysis to what he called six of the leading educational "laboratories" of the world, namely the major Western European countries and the United States. His second work, arising out of his first, established norms of administrative practice with special reference to educational reforms in Australia. Reller and Morphet limit the specific areas of educational concern but increase the number of countries involved. One would expect that with concentration on problems of administration and with thirty years of research to draw upon, greater meanings would