School Management and Administration
MEANING OF SCHOOL
School is a happy home, a sacred shrine, a social centre, a state in miniature of society.
The school is one of the formal agencies deliberately founded by man to fulfill some of the vital needs of the human society.
MEANING OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
In simple words managing the affairs of a school.
School management means running the school along the desired educational policies. It takes into account all aspects of the school (policies, material and human resources, programmes, activities, equipments etc.) and integrates them into a fruitful whole.
Good school management motives the best efforts of the teachers and students.
According to Indian Education Commission 1964-1966 says “the destiny of India is how being shaped in the classroom”.
Schools are to be the first class nurseries for the education of children in democratic citizenship which India needs to make its democracy permanently viable.
DEFINITIONS OF SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
According to K. Joshi says that “school is not a building of bricks and mortor. It is a meeting place of a two souls – teacher and taught. It is Spiritual development.
According to Balakrishna Joshi says that “The progress of a nation is decided not in legislature, not in court, not in factories, but in schools”.
According to K.C. Ottaway says that “The school may be regarded as a social invention to serve society for the specialized teaching of the young”.
According to John Dewey, “The school is a special environment where a certain quality of life and certain types of activities and occupations are provided with the object of securing childs development along desirable lines”.