This text presents the Data Bank "Production of Knowledge in the area of Educational Administration 1982-2000: National Periodicals" its objectives, characteristics and analyses it in its integrity.. Compare its initial phase 1982-1994 with the final phase 1995-2000 and the totality of the Data Bank from 1982 to 2000. In this Data Bank 3573 articles of national periodicals were classified with a thesaurus of fifty nine key words. Initially the process of classification used the title of the article as a criteria, in the second phase abstracts were included .The key-words with higher frequency in the Data Bank as whole were Administration of Higher Education, Educational Administration and Determinants of the Context, Educational Policy, Public Policy, School Educational Administration, Education and Professional Development, Administration and History, Power, Legislation, Educational Evaluation. In the final part of the text the theoretical implications of the classification of the production in key-words, its temporal distribution and periodicals involved was discussed. It was possible to observe that the analytic and classificatory process indicated a very comprehensive area characterized by complexity. Educational Administration is at the same time specific and general, allows for diferents types of segmentation in its interactive process is close to the complex adaptative systems.
Published articles; National periodicals; Educational administration; Data Bank
