Innovation in the Commonwealth: The International Intervisitation Program, Australia, 1970
| Pages | 3-9 |
| Date | 01 January 1971 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/eb009652 |
| Published date | 01 January 1971 |
| Author | W.G. WALKER |
| Subject Matter | Education |
THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION 3
VOLUME IX, NUMBER 1 MAY, 1971
Innovation in the Commonwealth:
The International Intervisitation Program,
Australia, 1970
W. G. WALKER
Among the recommendations of the first International Inter-
visitation Program held in North America in 1966 was the
organization of a second program at a later date. The 1970 Inter-
national Intervisitation Program, held in Australia, was jointly
sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administra-
tion and the University of New England. The themes of the
Program were Centralization and Bureaucracy, Planning and
Systems Analysis, Accountability and Assessment and Teacher
Negotiation and Participation in Policy Making. These themes
were the subject of papers at the orientation phase, of observation
in a two week visitation phase and of group discussion at a con-
ference held in Armidale. Perhaps the most important outcome of
the Program was the decision to establish a Commonwealth
Council for Educational Administration, a professional association
for those interested in educational administration, which seems
likely to hold its first plenary meeting at the third International
Intervisitation Program to be held in England in 1974.
The first International Intervisitation Program was held in
U.S.A. and Canada during October 1966. Largely through the
initiative of the University Council for Educational Administration
and the generosity of the Kellogg Foundation scholars and prac-
titioners in the field of educational administration from the
"developed" English speaking world were brought together to
discuss matters of mutual interest. The origins of the Program are
well described by J. A. Culbertson in his Introduction to Educa-
tional Administration: International Perspectives (Chicago: Rand
McNally, 1969), a book which includes most of the major papers
PROFESSOR W. G. WALKER is Professor of Education and Dean of the
Faculty of Education at the University of New England. In 1966 he played a
major role in organizing the first International Intervisitation Program. He is
now Chairman of the Interim Committee of the Commonwealth Council for
Educational Administration. He will spend most of 1971 as Visiting Scholar in
the Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration at the
University of Oregon.
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