It was in a context of unprecedented economic growth that educational planning developed in the 1960s. At the time, educational planners were entrusted with orchestrating the tremendous expansion of schooling, with the aim of both universalizing education and providing national economies with the qualified manpower needed. Such rigid mandatory planning is not suited to today's world, but other forms of planning such as policy analysis, policy dialog, labor market analysis, and strategic management are still valid. The following is a complete list of reprinted essays collected for this book.
This book describes the use of problem-based learning (PBL) in management education. The authors draw upon their experience in using PBL in a broad array of management education programs at the Bachelor, Master, Doctoral and Executive levels, in North American and in Asia. The book explores how PBL can make knowledge about management locally relevant, and clarifies how PBL can enable students to apply their knowledge to real problems.
A collection of case studies for prospective school administrators that emphasizes problem solving, decision-making, and effective management. Based on the conviction that effective practice in school administration requires both leadership and management, this text provides a mix of problems that require administrative decisions as presented in 24 open-ended case studies. In today's reform-minded, information-based society, practitioners must be able to frame problems correctly and then make effective decisions to ameliorate them. As leaders, district and school-level administrators are expected to focus on what should be done to improve schools; as managers, they are expected to focus on how to do things successfully. The cases in this book are designed to make students think about common problems of practice by encouraging them to bridge theory and practice. Each case provides an active form of learning, allowing students to demonstrate their ability to apply knowledge to common problem situations.
"For all those who are in the field of education this book will clearly explain about school administration and educational management to institutional planning. Is also prepares the reader to face the new challenges of the twenty-first century in the areas of educational administration and management. The well-defined roles of the headmaster, teacher and pupil and the elements that go into making a school like the library, office etc., makes the book as a good guide for those who want to start a school. The book is also comprehensive in defining the school curriculum and the entire internal organizational structure and function of a school keeping in mind the socialistic traditions of our nation. Health is wealth, as they say; therefore, the book explains the physical education aspect of a school student with emphasis on yoga. CONTENTS: Unit I Administration and Management • Educational Administration • Educational Management • Educational Administration in Independent India • Nature, Objectives and Scope of Educational Administration • Institutional Planning • The Educational Ladder • Inspection and Supervision • Communication in Educational Administration • Management of School and Approaches of Management • Central and State Agencies of Education • The Present Pattern of Education 10+2+3 • Educational Administration and Management: New Challenges of the Twenty-first Century • Unit II Major Components of School Management • School Management • Role of the Headmaster • Role of the Teacher • The Pupils • Unit III School Plants • School Building and Furniture • The School Farm and the Workshop • The School Office • The School Library • The School Exhibition and Museum • The School Hostel • Unit IV Internal Organisation • Curriculum Construction • Co-curricular Activities • The School Timetable • Homework • Discipline in School • Student Government in School • Guidance Programme in School • Evaluation • Accountability in School Education • Unit V Social Aspects of School • School and Home • Unit VI Health Education • The School Physical Education Programme • Yoga for Educational Institutions "
Hardbound. This book was prepared from the papers and discussions associated with an international workshop on Issues and Practices in Planning the Quality of Education organized by the International Institute for Educational Planning in November 1989. The first part considers the differing information requirements for different levels of decision making in education and a review of established educational information collection practices. The second explores the linkages between information and the quality of education. The third considers two areas where many countries have experienced difficulties in the collection and use of educational information: the dialogue between the producers and consumers of information, and the technical issues associated with the collection, preparation, and analysis of information. A conclusion summarizes the fundamental needs for training and research that emerged from the preceding chapters.
Expert presentation of holistic planning for a learner-focused educational system. Integrates curriculum, facilities, personnel, finance, educational technology, and other significant planning tactics.
Management, today, is not a new concept instead it is something that touches every aspect of modern life. With this premise, this book on Educational Administration and Management provides a comprehensive coverage of all concepts of educational management for teacher training courses be it planning, strategizing or human and material resource supervision to implement structures to execute an effective education system. It serves as a sound base to understand and command all managerial and administrative aspects of educational organizations. It covers the updated knowledge base on participative management, change management, TQM, decision making, leadership, supervision, planning organizational climate, organizational development, educational finance and other important issues related to educational management. The book is written in simple and lucid style using figures and tables wherever necessary. Chapter-end questions and MCQs are provided for self-assessment. List of Abbreviations is given for clear understanding of the terms. TARGET AUDIENCE The book is primarily suitable for the paper Educational Administration and Management of B.Ed. students. It is also useful for BA (Education), M.Ed. MA (Education) for their various papers dealing with Indian Education Structure, Education in Indian Constitution, Educational Organizations/agencies in India and Indian Educational Administration. Those preparing for NET/JRF and Higher Education Services Commission of various states can also make use of it.
Challenges and Prospects in African Education System: The general idea this book is trying to disseminate is to inform readers about the compelling challenges and prospects in African system of education. As we all know, when issues of Africa educational system is raised, the first set of thoughts that come to mind is decline in standard, deterioration of facilities, examination malpractices, cult crises or school-based violence, shortage of teachers, underqualified teachers, and poor teachers performance, which results in poor learning standards, lack of classroom discipline that is exacerbated by insufficient resources and inadequate infrastructure, failure of appropriate inspection and monitoring, and confusion caused by changing curricula without proper communication and training. All these have led to massive demoralization and disillusionment among teachers and a negative and worsening perception of African system of education. This, therefore, calls for in-depth analysis aimed at tutoring every stakeholder in education on how their action and inactions have individually and collectively contributed to the collapsing state of education in Africa. However, the prospect is that Africas recovery and sustainable development can only be guaranteed through expansion and sustenance of both quantitative and qualitativeof the continents stock of human capital through education. In order for education to realize its key role in development, it must be provided to the younger segments of African society as quickly as human and financial resources permit, with the ultimate goal of developing a comprehensive, meaningful and sustainable system of education at all levels and for all age groups. This is the message that this book puts across in the six knitted sections.
EDITORS This introduction to the International Handbook of Educational Lead ership and Administration describes some of the motivation for devel oping the book and several assumptions on which is based much of the work represented in its 31 chapters. A synopsis of the contents of those chapters is also provided. SOME KEY ASSUMPTIONS It is sometimes suggested that the search for an adequate understanding of leadership is doomed to fail. After all, there is little evidence of agreement about the concept in spite of prodigious efforts dating back hundreds if not thousands of years. Such a view is captured, for exam ple, in Bennis' observation that: Of all the hazy and confounding areas in social psychology, leadership theory undoubtedly contends for top nomination. Probably more has been written and less is known about lead ership than any other topic in the behavioural sciences. (1959, page 259) We do not find this state of affairs discouraging (nor entirely accurate) and, of course, it did not prevent Bennis from proceeding either. One reason for our desire to continue in the face of such discouraging words is that a great deal of leadership research aspires to develop a general theory, a theory which applies to all or most domains of organized human activity. This aspiration inevitably produces decontextualized and, therefore, abstract categories of practice. Howard Gardner's (1995) depiction of leadership as story telling is a case in point.
