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ItemLeadership for academic program administration in Rajabhat Institutes by using Bolman and Deal's framing approach( 2005)The purpose of this research was to investigate the leadership of deans and heads of programs in implementing the policy of academic program administration in Rajabhat Institutes. In particular, the study focused on the leaders' approach within a theoretical framework designed by two authors: Bolman and Deal. They identify four major characteristics and expected functions of leaders within four frames: the structural, the human resource, the political, and the symbolic. The main functions for each frame were to make people accept the change, to practice the policy, to disseminate the practice, to follow up the practice and to revise the practice. A qualitative approach was used to investigate the leaders' approach in implementing the new policy. The four characteristics of leadership in each frame were used to design questions to interview the deans and the heads of programs in order to investigate how they perceived their leadership in implementing the new academic program administration. Further, members of faculties (lecturers) were interviewed, utilising another set of questions, in order to discover their perspectives of the leadership of their deans and heads of programs. A Raj abhat Institute in the central part of Thailand was selected as a case study institute. A sample of deans, heads of programs, and lecturers participated in the study. Four deans were purposively selected. Eight heads of programs and eight lecturers were selected by simple random sampling from the four faculties. All documents related to the academic program administration were used in the study in order to supplement and compare this information with the interview data. The analysis has been presented in descriptive forms with tables. Results of the study revealed that both deans and heads of programs implemented the policy of the academic program administration with almost all the expected functions through the four frames, except for one expected function in the political frame - assess the distribution of power and interest. For the activities under each function in each frame, deans and heads of programs performed the first two activities the most often - to make people accept the change and to practise the change. The last three activities - to disseminate the practice, to follow up the practice, and to revise the practice, seldom occurred. Findings can be drawn to generate three models designed by the researcher to enhance effectiveness and efficiency of the program academic administration. These are a model for an implementation of the APA, a model for a leadership preparation for deans and heads of programs, and a model for an implementation preparation. Further research could investigate: (a) how new leaders could be developed and prepared to work within the system; (b) how leaders could be empowered to implement change; (c) how the structure of APA compares to a departmental structure; and (d) how the institute could contribute to the assessment process and link this to quality assurance.