IMPORTANCE AND

PRINCIPLES OF
EDUCATIONAL
ADMINISTRATION

by OSIA MAJID
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT

• entails carrying the reponsibility for the proper

functioning of a system in an Educational
Institution in which others participate.
• formation of plans, programmes and policies.
 EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

• isa process of systematically arranging and co-

ordinating the huamn and material resources
available to any organization for the main purpose of
achieving stipulated goals of that organization.
• responsible for the execution of implementation of
these plans, programmes and policies.
 Educational Management and
Administration are used Synonymously

• Administration is a component part of

management
• Both involve the basic functions;
planning, organizing and controlling
IMPORTANCE of Educational Administration
• Organizations are essential
• Administrator can perform useful
function
• Knowledge and understanding of
organizational behavior
• Achieve specific objectives
• Ensures efficient and effective delivery of
relevant educational services
• Implementing of legislative policies
• Designed to foster teaching /learning
process
 1. STRUCTURAL DEMOCRACY
Being the first principle of educational
administration in the modern era it puts stress
PRINCIPLES on democracy in structural perspective. It
implies “the exercise of control” in democracy.
OF The meaning of exercise of control in this light
EDUCATIONAL should be such that, it helps the students as
ADMINISTRATION future citizens in fulfilling their needs and
requirements tending to their self-realization,
safeguard the democratic government and
welfare of people at local, state and national
levels.
STRUCTURAL
DEMOCRACY
•EXERCISE OF CONTROL IN DEMOCRACY

√ to help students as future citizens

√ self realization
√ safe-guarding
√ welfare of people
2. OPERATIONAL DEMOCRACY
This principle of educational administration gives priority on
the practical aspect of democracy as a way of life and form of
governance. To this, the essence of democracy is to give
importance on the dignity of every individual and assisting him
to understand himself, it considers democracy as a matter of
spirit, way of life and a mode of behavior. Keeping this in view it
is the task and responsibility of an educational administrator to
focus on day to day happenings in relation to democratic
society in educational perspective that are relevant in wider
extent.
OPERATIONAL
DEMOCRACY
•Practical aspects
•Importance of dignity
•Democracy as a matter of spirit
•Focus on day-to-day happenings
 3. JUSTICE
Generally speaking justice refers to provide every
individual his due in the society by honoring his
individuality. This meaning of justice is the essence of
democracy. As justice is one of the basic hallmarks of
democratic administration, it is regarded as an essential
principle of educational administrating which is
democratic in form and practice. For practicing justice in
educational administration there is the need and
essentiality of giving due reward and share to every
individual to his efforts and achievements.
 JUSTICE
•Honoring the individuality
•Democratic in form and nature
•Judicious
•Administrators arbitrarily exercise
discretionary powers
 4. EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY
- One of the important social objective of education is to equalize
opportunity or facility for enabling the backward or under
privileged classes and individuals to use education as a means for
improvement of their condition.
- In order to keep equality of opportunity in concrete shape in the
field of education, educational administration plays a vital role.
For this greater emphasis should be given on equality of
educational opportunity for the sake of accelerating the process
for building up of on egalitarian human society in which the age
old social exploitation will be reduced to minimum.
 - Every society that values social
justice and anxious to improve a lot of
common man and cultivate all
available talents, must ensure
progressive equality of educational
oppurtunity to all section of the
population.
EQUALITY OF
OPPORTUNITY
• Equalize opportunity for under
privileged
• Equality of Educational
Opportunity
√ building up egalitarian society
 5. PRUDENCE
- Thinking or Planning or showing thought for future
- “Prudence” is closely related to intelligent economy
which implies quality control.
- In order to ensure quality control in the field of
education, educational administration has to make
expenditure on education by accepting it as an investment
on human resource. Because without necessary
expenditure on education there will be no question of
quality in it and then what about the matter of quality
control.
-Several studies in educational
administration lies a lot of
wasteful expenditure for
which system of check and
balance is essential.
PRUDENCE
• Intelligent-company-Quality Control
• Investment on Human Resources

• System of check and balance

√ seeks to protect an educational
institution
√ misuse of power and funds
6. ADAPTABILITY, FLEXIBILITY AND STABILITY
An institution must be able to adjust with changing
situations by fulfilling the developing needs and by
improving its day-to-day dealings with persons or agencies
involved. This characteristic of an institution is called
adaptability.
In the process of achieving its educational objectives,
it has to deal differently with different human beings like
teachers, parents and the public at large, who are affected
in one way or other by the process or its products. This
tendency is called flexibility.
 The educational institution however must be able to
achieve adaptability without creating any dislocation or
disruption in its process and achievements. This property
is named as stability.

An institution must have these three characteristics in

order to be able to achieve its objectives adequately and to
give due regard to all persons concerned in some way or
other.
 ADAPTABILITY
 the quality of being able to adjust to new
condition
 concerned with acts of change and flexibility
to a great extent to counteract with uniformity
and stability is mainly the counterweight to
adaptability. Thus on the whole, adaptability is
the capacity of an enterprise to change, to
develop and to improve.
 FLEXIBILITY

 the capacity of an institution to

react in variance with persons and
situations affected and to warn
against the dangers of uniformity.
STABILITY

the capacity of an organization to

safeguard the merits of the old while it is in
the process of change.
 all these three qualities of adaptability,
flexibility and stability are complementary
to each other.
 PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION

1.Structural Democracy
2. Operational Democracy
3. Justice
4.Equality of Opputunity
5. Prudence
6. Adaptability , Flexibility and Stability
 “No one is more cherished
in this world than someone
who lightens the burden of
another .
Joseph Addison
THANK
YOU!

Prepared by:
DOLORES L. MORI
ESTELA L. FERNADEZ