This article briefly describes research on learning and teaching and discusses its implications for the field of educational administration. The author argues that the field of educational administration should pay more attention to issues of learning and teaching in its programs of teaching and research, and he discusses some promising directions for the reform of these endeavors based on recent cognitive approaches to the study of learning and teaching.
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