Abstract:

This article describes the evolution of educational administration as a scientific discipline in Turkey. Based on this aim it focused on questions of "what is science?" and what fundamental characteristics lead a group of scientists to agree on a scholarly field that it is a scientific discipline?" Literature review has shown that there is a parallelism between the scientific identity and development of the area and preparation programs of school and educational administrators. Based on this, the scientific evolution of the area has been inquired through the preparation programs. In this framework, the preparation programs both inside and out side of Turkey have been reviewed and discussed in order to find out how the area has been perceived. At last, in order to discover the scientific level of the area, educational administration researches have been reviewed with respect to the headings of methodology. It has been determined that the educational administration researches just like in Turkey also abroad generally there has been a long distance that should be reached.

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