Meaning and Def of Educational Technology

Educational Planning, Administration and Management

Dr. K.Nachimuthu, Asst Professor in Education

Periyar University, Salem - 636011, Tamilnadu, India

dr_knmuthu@yahoo.com +91 09 84 27 26 987

Printed at

Iris publications, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu India

ISBN 978-93-80543-12-3 Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization (a group of one or more people or entities) or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Resourcing encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources.Management operates through various functions, often classified as planning, organizing, staffing, directing, co-operating/monitoring, Reporting and Budgeting.Planning: Deciding what needs to happen in the future (today, next week, next month, next year, over the next 5 years, etc.) and generating plans for action.

Organizing: (Implementation) making optimum use of the resources required to enable the successful carrying out of plans.

Staffing: Job analyzing, recruitment and posting individuals for appropriate jobs.

Directing: Determining what needs to be done in a situation and getting people to do it.

Co-operating & Monitoring: Checking progress against plans and co-operate to all.

Reporting: We must know about how to report to our official about the concern/ institution. At the same time, due to that report, the officials upgrade those intuitions.

Budgeting: We can analyze the financial sources, income and outgoing for the particular planning

UNIT - I: Educational Planning and Approaches

Educational Planning: Meaning, nature, principles, approaches, perspective planning and institutional planning. Modern trends in educational planning - Process of Education planning at central and state level. Approaches to Educational planning: Social demand approach, Rate of return approach, Manpower planning approach, Production function approach.

UNIT - II: Educational Administration and Approaches

Educational Administration: meaning, development of modern concept from 1900 to the present day. Taylorism. Administration - as a process, as a bureaucracy, as a monocratic, as a pluralistic. Approaches to Educational administration: objective based, administration and human rights, administration & laws, administration & public relations and administration & human relations.

UNIT - III: Psychological Needs and Administration

Psychological Needs of Employees - job satisfaction, job involvement, teacher morale, and classroom environment. System approach - specific trends in educational administration such as - decision-making, organizational compliance, organizational development, Performance Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT).

UNIT - IV: Leadership and Theories in Educational Administration

Leadership in Educational Administration concept, meaning and nature of leadership. Theories of leadership: Fiedlers contingency theory, X & Y theory. Styles of leadership and measurement of leadership.

UNIT - V: School Management and Supervision

Meaning, scope and objectives of school management : Modern and current trends in Educational Management - Managing the institution - Time management. Educational Supervision: Meaning and nature - Supervision as a service activity, as a process, as a function and supervision as an educational leadership. Traditional Vs Modern supervision, Functions of supervision, Supervisory programme - planning, organizing and implementing.

UNIT - VI: Education and Financial Status in India

Financing of Education in India: Resources and expenditure of education, Different grants - in - aids available for colleges in India. Educational administration in India - Role of State, Local government, Autonomous institutions, UGC, NCERT, SCERT, NIEPA, CBSE, NCTE, District Level Administration in education - Structure of the School, College and University.