TY - JOUR
AU - Louis, Karen Seashore
AB - Educational Administration Quarterly Vol. 35, No. 4 (October 1999) 472-476 Educational Administration Quarterly Murphy, Louis / NOTES FROM THE HANDBOOK Handbook Editors’ Introduction: Notes From the Handbook Joseph Murphy Karen Seashore Louis The focus of this introductory piece is twofold. First, we provide a short overview of some of the thinking that shaped the design of the Handbook.In establishing this context, we believe that readers will be better able to organ- ize and make sense of the reviews that follow. For those who are interested, we have elaborated more fully on these ideas in the introductory chapter of the Handbook itself (Murphy & Louis, 1999). Second, based on work in developing the Handbook, we offer some insights about the state of the pro- fession of educational administration. DESIGN ISSUES Principles At the outset of our assignment, we devoted considerable time to thinking about appropriate ways to organize the Handbook. In the process, we col- lected numerous insights—both formally and informally—from colleagues throughout the profession. We concluded that the Handbook should have the following features. To begin, it should promote the accumulation of research findings in an integrated fashion. We sought a design that would provide a centering function to 
TI - Handbook Editors’ Introduction: Notes from the Handbook
JF - Educational Administration Quarterly: The Journal of Leadership for Effective & Equitable Organizations
DO - 10.1177/00131619921968716
DA - 1999-10-01
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SP - 472
EP - 476
VL - 35
IS - 4
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