Synthesis of Educational Administration and the New Educational Paradigm

Abstract

The objectives of this research were as follows: 1) to synthesize knowledge from various perspectives of academics by documentary research to present the concept of educational administration with a new educational paradigm; and 2) to study the significance of changes in educational administration from the old paradigm of the 20^th century to the new paradigm of the 21^st century. This documentary research was conducted according to Scott's (2006) approach. Various documents were studied, analyzed, and synthesized. The research results found that administrators face challenges effectively with the new educational paradigm in the 21^st century, educational administrators must have high expectations, a future vision, a creative mind, give importance to learning as a more important basic goal than anything else, practice collaborative leadership, and create intellectual excitement for schools and classrooms with a learning model that focuses on student-centered. In the old paradigm, educational administrators operated according to the framework of the scientific concept that was rigid, not open, not flexible and achieve the same results focusing on teacher centered. This is different from the new paradigm that educational administrators operate in an open and flexible manner, changing the administrative method to a democratic style that allows everyone to participate and focuses on student-centered.