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Educational Management

Notes 1.1 Concept of Educational Management

The origin of the development of educational management as a field of study began in the United
States in the early part of the 20th century.
Development in the United Kingdom came as late as the 1960’s Herding wrote a Practical handbook of
School Management by Teachers. (1) Some General Principle of Management Applied to the Problems of
School System Franklin Bobbit of the University of Chicago published an article in 1913. (2) Jesse
Newton published Educational Administration as a Social Policy (1934). (3) Koopman et.al, wrote
Democracy in School Administration (1934).
Meaning of Educational Management
Educational management operates in educational organizations. As Tony Bush (1986), puts its, “Most
of the definitions of educational management which have been offered by writers are partial because
they reflect the particular sense of author. Those which attempt a broader approach are often bland.”
“School management, as a body of educational doctrine, comprises a number of principles and
precepts relating primarily to the technique of classroom procedure and derived largely from the
practice of successful teachers. The writers in the field have interpreted these principles and precepts
in various ways, usually be reference to larger and more fundamental principles of psychology,
sociology and ethics.” -Paul Monroe : (1913)
“Management implies an orderly way of thinking. It describes in operational terms what is to be
done, how it is to be done, and how we know when we have done. Management is not an arcane
mystique. It is a method of operation. Good management should result in an orderly integration of
education and society -Shelley Umana : (1972)

1.2 Need of Educational Management

While writing about the purpose of educational management Kandel says, “Fundamentally the
purpose of educational management is to bring pupils and teachers under such conditions as well
as more successfully promote the ends of education. “Sir Graham Balfour writes very aptly, “the
purpose of educational management is to enable the right pupils to receive to the right education
from the right teachers, at a cost within the means of the state, which will enable pupils to profit by
their learning.
In a democratic country like ours, educational management is a necessity. Some suitable, stable
elements are properly motivated and organised in the machinery becomes necessary to withstand
and survive the changes and upheavals caused because of change of Governments. Superior
educational management in fact is so basic to the satisfactory functioning of democracy. Errors of
judgement can be retrieved in a farm or factory but these can be fatal when we are concerned with
the moulding or ideas and values of society. An efficient and sound system of educational
management is, in fact the basis of a good democracy.

1.3 Nature of Educational Management

It is the management of educational institutions to foster teaching and learning. As a field of practice,
it has some aspects in common with other fields of management, such as public administration,
hospital administration and business management. As a field of study emerged first at the Teacher’s
Training College of Columbia University and was followed shortly by graduate programme of
Stanford University, University of Chicago and other institutions in the U.S.A. Indian Universities
it had its place only in the 1670s. Since the 1950s educational tration has become a field of study in
its own right. As an applied field it has much in common with other applied fields such as medicine,
engineering, etc. It builds upon psychology, sociology, economics, political science and other
behavioural sciences. For the part twenty to thirty years emphasis has increased on the development

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