Education Administration

Education is universally acknowledged as one of the key inputs contributing to the process of national development. For development of human resources, investment in education is essential in order to empower people with appropriate knowledge, skills, values and attitudes, to enhance their quality of life, to improve their productivity and to enable them to participate more fully in the development process. In the present context of global economy, access to basic education is considered as a human right. Since the World Conference on Education for all, held at Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, there has been growing awareness among international agencies and national governments that the centralized administrative structures in education in developing countries lack adequate human, financial and material resources to provide education for all. Since the Jomtien conference, there has been growing emphasis on decentralization of educational administration and management to provide access to basic education to children, youth and adults who have been deprived of learning opportunities so far. The transfer of educational management from the central to the local level and local communities is considered as the effective way of reaching the unreached. In the Indian context, educational administration takes place through collaborative efforts of central government, state governments and local bodies. The constitution of India has made elaborate arrangements for distribution of governmental powers-legislative, administrative and financial-between the Union and the States. As education is on the concurrent list the central government and the state governments are expected to have a meaningful partnership for educational development in the country. The present book is an in-depth study on the developmental aspects of education administration and administrative strategies based on psychological, sociological and philosophical foundation. It is hoped that the book will serve as a good reference tool for teachers, teacher-students and students in general.