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Transcript of DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY & EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION, WINNEBACOURSE OUTLINE FOR EDC 242
TRENDS IN EDUCATION & SCHOOL MANAGEMENT IN GHANA
FIRST SEMESTER
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY &
EDUCATION1
DAMPSON DANDY GEORGE
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE TITLE: Trends in Education & School Management in Ghana
COURSE CODE: EDC 242 CREDIT HOURS: 3 VENUE: North Assembly Hall TIME: 1:30 – 3:30 GROUPS: French Education, HPERS,
& Science Education
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to expose:
students to the theoretical and practical bases of educational administration and management with special reference to Ghana.
It examines the meanings and purposes of educational administration and the role of the school administrator in school management.
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This course will equip students with the basic and relevant management techniques to run schools more effectively.
Students will also be exposed to the
nature of Ghana’s education system and contemporary issues in education, including school-community relationship.
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course will:
Enable students to understand the nature and purpose of educational administration, leadership and management.
Equip students with the relevant knowledge and skills in educational leadership.
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Expose students to some contemporary issues relating to the management of schools.
Enable students to manage human resource effectively.
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COURSE CONTENT
The nature and purpose of educational administration and management
The meaning of administration, leadership and management
Functions of the administrator /manager (POSDCORD)
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Nature of Organization
Leadership theories and styles
Characteristics of an effective leader
Administrative tasks/duties of school head
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MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Motivation theories Time management
Decision-making in educational organizations
Communication in educational organizations
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OTHER MANAGEMENT-RELATED ISSUSES
Organizational climate
School-community relationship
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LEARNING AND TEACHING STRATEGIES
There will be a mixture of lectures (including Radio lectures), presentations and tutorial support.
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ASSESSMENT
Continuous Assessment (Two Quizzes) – 40%
End-of-course Examination - 60%
Total - 100%
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LEADERSHIP,ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
1. MEANING & BASES FOR LEADERSHIP
2. MEANING OF ADMINISTRATION
3. MEANING OF MANAGEMENT
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WHAT IS LEADERSHIP
Burns (1978), says that leadership is a process of doing something for some one by mobilizing persons with certain motives and values, various economic, political, and other resources in a context of competition and conflict, in order to realize goals independently or mutually held by both leaders and followers.
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Musaazi (1982), believes that leadership is the process of influencing the activities and behaviour of an individual or a group in efforts towards goal achievement in a given situation.
Rost (1991), believes that leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purpose.
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Gardener (1995), states that leaders are individuals who affect the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of a significant number of individual. He stressed that the leader must be an educator, bridging the gap between the vision and the familiar and must be ready to walk alone to enable the society to follow the path he has selected.
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Is this your leadership?
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Or this?
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So, leadership has the following: Affect individual Affect feelings, emotions, thought and
behaviours Mobilize people Common goal achievement Mutual purpose Real change
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Traits and skills of a leader
Traits Adaptable to situations Alert to social environment Ambitious and achievement-orientated Assertive Cooperative Decisive
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Traits (cont)
DependableDominant (desire to influence others)Energetic (high activity level)PersistentSelf-confidentTolerant of stressWilling to assume responsibility
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skills
Clever (intelligent)Conceptually skilledCreativeDiplomatic and tactfulFluent in speakingKnowledgeable about group taskOrganised (administrative ability)PersuasiveSocially skilled Stogdill (1974)
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BASES FOR LEADERSHIP
By Law (Legal Leadership)By Tradition (Traditional Leadership)
By Charisma (Charismatic Leader)
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LEGAL LEADERSHIP
This is also known as rational leadership and the one who holds this position is backed fundamentally and primarily by law. In a typical secondary school, and the basic school situation in Ghana, we can see this kind of leadership. This is because the school being a formal organization is guided and controlled by a set of principles, laws and rules.
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TRADITIONAL LEADERSHIP
This is the leadership that has its fundamental basis not primarily in the legal system of the formal organization, nor mainly in the charismatic nature of the candidate, but rather in the traditional status quo.
One key characteristics which is unique
with this type of leadership is that its inheritance by lineage; in certain tribes or clans through patrilineal links and in others the matrilineal
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CHARISTMATIC LEADERSHIP
The basis of charismatic leadership is in the charisma of the leader who may initially not have any legal or traditional basis for leadership. This type of leadership has it basis in the people’s devotion to an extraordinary individual who is leader by virtue of personal trust in him and his exemplary qualities. The leader has a special and unique duty to fulfil for the revolutionary change of the social order.
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Cont;
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POWER
Power is the ability to do something, or act upon oneself, another individual or a thing. Power is the inner strength that enables a person to carry out their wishes or beliefs in spite of the possible disapproval of others. It is the ability to affect something or someone with force or character or strength.
Power may be sought, and when it is obtained,
can be used to accomplish a multitude of things, positive and negative. Power may be manifested in several ways in a given organization.
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TYPES OF POWER LEGAL POWER EXPERT POWER REWARD POWER REFERENT POWER COERCIVE POWER
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Legal Power: the basis of this power is not questioned by most people in society. The population has a believe that by virtue of office, the leader has been given certain rights to lead, and should be followed. Agreeing to belong to the organization is tantamount to signing a contract to recognize and summit to the power of the leader. Legal power is at the core of the stability of the formal organization
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Is this your legal power?
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Expert Power: this type of power has its basis in the people’s belief in and recognition of certain unique talents or skills which the leader has to enable him accomplish the goals of the organization in ways not possible by the ordinary staff. In the university culture.
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Is this your expert power?
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Reward Power: the basis of this power resides in the belief of the member organization that if they behave in certain way, or do certain things, the system or organization will reward them. In this case, they accept to obey the dictates of the leader, in hopes of being rewarded by him.
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Or your reward power
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Referent Power: it has is basis in the common people’s belief that this individual possesses certain outstanding and rare characteristics which are attractive and with which they want to be identify. It may also be referred to as charismatic power.
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Or this?
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Coercive Power (force): members of the organization or a group of them will develop the strong belief that they must obey and do exactly what the leader wants lest they suffer severe punishment. Coercive power is that which intimidates and reduces the human person within the organization to the state of a slave, an object who sees his primary task as that of pleasing the leader.
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Or coercive power
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WHAT IS ADMINISTRATION
The word “administration” is from the Latin word “minister” meaning servant or slave.
Therefore, administration has to do with the identification, maintaining, motivating, controlling, and the unification of human and material resources within an organization to achieve a common goal.
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Administration can also be considered as the careful and systematic arrangements and use of resources (human & material), situations and opportunities for the achievement of the specific objectives of a given organization. (Nwankwo, 1987)
To Gulick & Urwick, administration is a process of getting things done through the effort of others in goal achievement.
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According to Walton (1996), administration is an activity that concerns it self with the survival and maintenance of an organization.
In simple term, administration is where the seven functions of a chief executive is executed.
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What then is Educational Administration
Nwankwo (1987), defined educational administration as the systematic arrangement of human and material resources and programmes that are available for education and carefully using them systematically within defined guidelines or policies to achieve educational goals.
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Educational administration is the process of providing instructional leadership, management of the day-to-day activities, setting educational standards and goals, establishing policies and procedures required to achieve them in schools, preschools, day care centres, colleges and universities.
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Some basic functions
Educational Administrators typically performs the following basic functions:
develop academic programs, monitor students’ educational progress, train and motivate teachers and other staff, manage career counselling and other student
services, administer recordkeeping, prepare budgets.
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They also handle relations with parents, prospective and current students, employers, and the community.
They set the academic tone and work actively with teachers to develop and maintain high curriculum standards,
formulate mission statements, and establish performance goals and objectives.
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WHAT IS MANAGEMENT
Management is the process by which managers create, direct, maintain and operate purposive organizations through systematic, co-ordinated and co-operative human effort. (Forland, 1998)
Management refers to a set of functions which unite group efforts in a meaningful manner.
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Management is the art of getting things done through people. (Follett, 1996).
Management is the organization and coordination of the activities of an enterprise in accordance with certain policies and in achievement of defined objectives. (Drucker, 2005)
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What is educational management
Educational management is concerned with the planning and formulation of educational policies or programmes with a view to achieving educational goals.
The process of deciding on the aims and goal setting of the institution/school. In some settings, aims are decided by the principal, often working in association with senior colleagues and perhaps a small group of lay stakeholders. (Bush 2003)
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CONCLUSION
The ways in which managers influence their employees and encourage them to be productive depend on many variables, including the personality of the leader, the skills of the group/employees, the task or assignment at hand, or the group dynamics and personalities of group members.
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As with leadership, each base of power has its place in management and can prove effective in the right setting and right circumstances.
There are four major factors of leadership that we need to take with us as student if we want to become effective leaders. We need to:
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a. Be a leader: You must have an honest understanding of who you are, what you know, and what you can do.
b. Know your followers: Different people require different styles of leadership. You must know your people! The fundamental starting point is having a good understanding of human nature,
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… such as needs, emotions, and motivation. You must come to know your employees' be, know, and do attributes.
c. Communication: You lead through two-way communication. Much of it is nonverbal and verbal. What and how you communicate either builds or harms the relationship between you and your employees.
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d.Situations: All situations are different. What you do in one situation will not always work in another. You must use your judgment to decide the best course of action and the leadership style needed for each situation.
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QUIZ ONE
State five (5) differences between an administrator and a manager.
Five minutes
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NATURE OF ORGANIZATION
Definition of organizationCharacteristics of organizationTypes of organizationThe school as an organization
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WHAT IS AN ORGANIZATION
A social unit of people, systematically structured and managed to meet a need or to pursue collective goals on a continuing basis.
A group of persons with a common objective"
"A structured process in which individuals interact for objectives.
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Some Scholar’s definition
Russell (1938) describes an organization as a set of people who are combined by virtue of activities directed to common end.
Simon (1955) teaches that organization is a tool that permits groups of human beings to aim at and … achieve goals that would be far beyond the reach of their powers as individual.
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Cont;
To Musaazi (1982) organizations are born when certain people have identified a common purpose, have been able to communicate with each other, and have shown willingness to contribute action.
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"Every organized human activity -- from the making of pots to the placing of a man on the moon -- gives rise to two fundamental and opposing requirements: The division of labour into various tasks to be performed, and the coordination of these tasks to accomplish the activity" (Mintzberg, 1983)
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CHARACTERISTICS OF AN ORGANIZATION
Organizations are fundamentally about people:
It seeks to address the needs of the common member/community. It is however common to observe organizations growing so large and becoming so complex powerful that they shift their focus or end up engaging on goal displacement. They abandon their original objectives to seek more power and place greater emphasis on seeking for money.
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Organization by nature is structural.
That is to say they deal with structures as its sole existence rely on it. In organizations, members must have respect for, and make use of the structures that are put in place. Organizations across the globe possess structures which define their very nature, and which support them in their continuous efforts to survive, grow and progress.
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All organizations, even informal ones, must have purpose.
for it is a sense of purpose that brought the people together in the first place. These objectives/purposes/goals are termed as Mission Statements.
Organization is all about team work:
with different players functioning at different level within the group.
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Organization must be provided with conditions: aimed at enhancing the effectiveness of the attainment of their goals, ie, Principle of natural justices. Eg, conditions of educational goal; there must be physical facilities, well-trained, experienced and qualified teachers, learners, visionary and loving administrators.
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Proper planning and management:
must be in place so that internal conflict will be reduced. Personal interest must not be confused with larger, communal organizational goals.
There must be a system of leadership:
There must be a system of leadership, management and administration in order to function properly, and to allow the organization to provide the services for which it was set up.
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TYPES OF ORGANIZATION
Formal organizations are setup with the clear purpose of arriving at specific goals and objectives, their existence is intentionally planned, their procedures and practices carefully arranged and they stand to be constantly evaluated, scrutinized based on whether or not and to what extent they are able to live up to their expectations. (Musaazi,1984).
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Characteristics of formal organization
Deliberately planned and created Concerned with the co-ordination of activities Hierarchically structured with stated
objectives Based on certain principles such as the
specification of tasks
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Organization structure is laid down by the top management to achieve organizational goals.
Organization structure is based on division of labour and specialization to achieve efficiency in the operations.
The organization does not take into consideration the sentiments of organizational members.
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The authority and responsibility relationships created by the organization structure are to be honoured by everyone.
Developed through delegation of authority Organization structure concentrates on the
jobs to be performed and not the individuals who are to perform jobs.
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INFORMAL ORGANIZATION
Williams (1980) simply refers to an informal organization as “the actual groupings of human beings in an organization including all the interpersonal relationship, friendships and cliques that prevail in an organization.
Gorton (1980) used the term to refer to a network of interpersonal associations which grow out of the social contacts and interactions of those members of formal organization.
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Informal organizations they do not have clear-cut in their operations as formal organization. The origin of informal organization are sometimes very obscure (not well known), sometimes even spontaneous (not planned, out of a blue). Membership is gained unconsciously, although they could be consciously gained as well. Their goals are not specified but evolve (develop gradually) with time.
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Types of informal organization
There are basically three types of informal organization namely,
Horizontal Clique Vertical Clique Mixed Clique
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Horizontal Clique consist of workers who are of similar rank in the organization and who work in a common area.
Vertical Clique often consist of higher-level employees-managers and supervisors who work in the same department.
Mixed Clique is composed of employees of different ranks, departments and even different locations.
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Characteristics of informal organization
The informal organization is flexible and loosely structured
Relationships may be left undefined Informal relationships, groupings &
interactions Membership is spontaneous and with varying
degrees of involvement
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Involves two or more people Informal association precedes formal
organization, as it requires preliminary (informal) contact and interaction before establishment
Repeated contacts but without any conscious joint purpose
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Involves the human need to socialize Includes both friendly and hostile
relationships and interactions
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THE SCHOOL AS AN ORGANIZATION
What is a School? Can a school be considered as an
organization? Or is an organization? Why?
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QUIZ 2
Is a school an organization?State five (5) reasons to support your
answer.
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