A Comparative Analysis of Research Studies on Educational Administration Published in Some Arab Educational Refereed Journals and American in the light of the Sociology of Knowledge and the ’Structure of Scientific Revolutions’

Abstract

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.(