教育行政方式涉及以谁为主体以及通过何种方式、管理哪些教育事务的问题。研究发现，传统的教育行政方式呈现出以政府为单一主体，自上而下地对教育的全要素、过程实施管理的特征。教育现代化发展呼唤教育行政方式的革新，而强调多元共治就是教育行政方式转变的方向和主要特征。影响教育行政方式转变的因素有三：层层发包致使教育行政履职目标偏移；条块不协作制约教育行政能力；教育参与归属与认同感低限制多元主体参与的积极性。要转变传统的教育行政方式，更好地为教育发展服务，需要从理念树立、规则制定、组织培育和制度保障四个方面扩大多元主体在基层教育行政中的协商合作力度，保障其与参与教育治理的权利。

The educational administrative mode involves the issues of who should be the main subject, which way should be adopted, and what educational affairs need to be addressed. The study finds that in traditional educational administration, the government tends to be the single subject, with the top-down management of the total factor and processes of education. Educational modernization calls for innovation in educational administrative modes, and shared governance should be the direction of the transformation of educational administrative modes. There are three factors that affect the transformation of educational administrative modes:multi-layered administrative contracts which have caused deviated targets in educational administration; non-cooperation among different departments which restricts the educational administrative performance; lack of affiliation and identity in educational participation which limits participant enthusiasm of multi-subjects. To transform the traditional mode of educational administration and better serve education development, we need to expand the consultation and cooperation to ensure the participation of multiple subjects in the basic educational administration from the four aspects of concept establishment, rule-making, organization cultivation and system guarantee.