A Textbook of Educational Administration

The specific context of educational administration in the school system has been defined in clear and fluent terms in the present effort to detail the essential features of this vital subject. The educational scenario in India is replete with challenges and unfinished agendas. In the great efforts to achieve literacy for all, to make primary and secondary education free for all children in rural areas, to provide enough incentives for aspiring teachers to ensure for them a fruitful and rewarding career, to provide lifelong educational opportunities for all those desirous of such, and to especially safeguard, the rights and security of the girl child all these call for a degree of educational administration that must be created immediately. The following pages contain a detailed blueprint of both theory and practice in the school system. Illustrating the materials set out with examples drawn from well known experiments in school and similar academic settings, the book includes discussions on basic principles, approaches, objectives and goals, organisational highlights ad drawbacks, strategies to counter malfunctioning and deviations, financial management, role of society and government administration interface. The book is intended for all educational planers, policy makers school authorities and administrators.