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Educational Management

Notes have had teaching experience in schools for at least ten years, or should have been a Headmaster
of a High School for a minimum period of three years. In addition to direct recruitment the
Inspector should also be drawn from :
• Recommendations of the Education Commission (1964-66,) on the Strengthening of the
Inspectorate : The Kothari Commission writes about his role : “Is hardly necessary to emphasize
the importance of the District Education Officer and his establishment at the district level. He
is charged with the leadership function in relation to the district as the Director is in relation to
the State.
• “All things considered, the future of development and reform lies in strengthening the district
offices of the Department, and making them service and supervision centres of all schools, and
relating the State level Directorates only for general co-ordination and policy-making.
• Inspection refers to a specific occasion when a school is examined and evaluated as a ‘centre of
learning’ in such a manner that suggestions may be given for its improvement and those
suggestions are reported in a report. It is an area of school organization, where we want on the
one hand, to develop active and independent thinking and imagination and on the other we
want the general conformity to roles and regulations also.
• Supervision, on the other hand is a constant and continuous process of more personnel guidance
based on frequent visits when attention is directed to one or more aspects of the school and its
organisation.

20.8 Keywords

• Dominant : more important, powerful or noticeable than other things.
• Exception : a person or a thing that is not included in general statement.
• Inspection : do check that everything is satisfactory.

20.9 Review Questions

1. What do you understand by school inspection ?
2. Explain the principles of good inspection.
3. What are the qualities of good inspector ?
4. Discuss the recommendations of education commission, on the strengthening ot the inspectorate.
Answers : Self Assessment

1. (i) Inspection, professional (ii) Instructional work
(iii) progressive outlook (iv) experimentor
20.10 Further Readings

1. The Principles and Practice of Educational Management: Tony Bush, Les Bell,
SAGE Publisher, 2002.
2. Educational Management : Strategy, Quality, and Resources, Margaret Preedy, Ron
Glatter, Publiser Open University Press, 1997.
3. Educational Management: Theory and Practice, J.A. Okumbe, Publisher Bairobi
University Press, 1998.

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