Coming to 21
st
century, globalization tendency and the technology revolution has
been rapidly changing the human life. In order to establish an joint ASEAN sociocultural community in which the education is an key factor, the educational
administration is the urgent issue needed to be reformed based on the fundamental of
the global common trend and the ASEAN background. The proposed solutions include
broadening and increasing the joint awareness, integrating theories and practices in
educational administration at different levels of schooling across national borders into the
joint ASEAN community levels, rigorous collaboration of the leading ASEAN and
worldwide educational administrators and educational researcher, promoting collective
leadership competency and 21
st
century leadership skill, increasing the social and
community commitment and responsibility of top management, constructing the ASEAN
qualification framework for educational administration, human resource development and
understanding of the available resource transfer within ASEAN.
ASEAN basic and comprehensive reform on educational administration will be
hence the foundation for ten countries in ASEAN community can synchronize the current
and intended educational administration development strategies on the progress of
transforming to the transnational education of a ASEAN community in order to early
become the advanced and modern education toward an education with “lifelong learning
in the knowledge society”.
Keyword: Educational administration reform, ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community, ASEAN
educational community.