Role Of School Management

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CHAPTER I

1.1 Introduction

In an elementary, middle and high school, principal is the highest ranking administrator. It is the superintendent whom principals directly report or in some schools they report directly to the trustees or their designee. In our Indian Education system, especially in aided schools, principals or the highest ranking school level administrator are also called Head masters of the school. Head masters or the principals have many responsibilities in the school but they may also engage themselves in addition al activities for the school like fund raising. In many schools, there is only one person who plays the role or principal as well as superintendent. The principals, who are responsible for the overall operation of …show more content…

The need arose, as the school grew from one room school houses into schools with multiple grades and classrooms, to manage these more complex organizations in and around the beginning of the twentieth century. The teachers who continued to teach while also dealing with their schools management needs, found the need for it initially. They were called initially as principal teachers.in most of the schools, with the growth of the school, the teachers and principals became the administrators. Because of the growing demands of their management, most of principals soon stopped teaching (yet they teach in aided schools as per the Secondary School Code norms). Work like school scheduling, financial operations, school policy regarding discipline, coordination of the instructional program and over all school matters were the responsibilities of the Principals. The management only had the role of curriculum and instruction supervision, but it was the role of principals to see the overall school management until 1980s. The role of the principal changed from school manager to instructional leader and then to school reform leader as the accountability movement gained momentum. Principals retained their management role with this shift in roles. Multiple roles are played by a Principal like – School manager, Instructional leader and a leader of school …show more content…

Brendon O’ Malley’s work in 2007, Education under Attack published by UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization) is considered as the first ever detailed study of its kind. The analysis of conflict in fragile states has gained significant attention within the policy makers in the recent past and till today the role of education on conflict resolution is highly debated upon. No clear casual direction of the two has been established and no formal model has been developed even though some studies have tried to estimate a linkage between educational outcomes and violence. It has become one of the researchable topics seeing the present mayhem world today, whether education creates conflict or conflict affects educational development

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