تحليل مقارن لبحوث الادارة التربوية العربية المنشورة في بعض المجلات التربوية العربية و الامريكية المحكمة في ضوء علم اجتماع المعرفة و و نظرية بنية الثورات العلمية

A comparative analysis of the Arab educational administration research published in some Arab and American educational journals in the light of the sociology of knowledge and the theory of the structure of scientific revolutions

This study aimed at analyzing research studies on Educational Administration in 19 Arab refereed educational journals and the American Journal of “Educational Administration Quarterly ”. The researchers approached the topic from the perspective of the “Sociology of Science ”, and Kuhn’s “Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. The study revealed a humble number of studies (70) scattered in 19 Arabic journals compared with 492 studies published by the EAQ. In both settings, the majority of studies were conducted by academicians. In terms of methodology and instruments, Arab authors were more inclined towards the descriptive studies, while there was a diversity of methods employed by the authors of EAQ. The majority of Arab studies were survey-like. By contrast, the contributions to EAQ were more interested in articulating administrative models, perspectives, alternatives and critiques to administration. The study ended with conclusions and recommendations.