School Leadership and Management

The coming year (2009-10), we plan to add the School Leadership and Management (SLM) component to the MDP, and the current MDP will also continue to remaining districts.

SLM is an important area within ELM (Education Leadership and Managment). Some initial ideas on the content of such a program are given below (my own loud thoughts - pls share your own thoughts and comments too. Also the blog has part of my thoughts, see attached file).

Purpose of SLDF/P

Pedagogical leadership in schools
1.Purpose of school/education (philosophy of education)
2.Relationship between school and society (sociology)
3.How does learning happen

1. Educational perspectives
Can be similar to mdp with some more emphasis on the school context (aims of education/NCF 2005). Child learning / capacities, diversity, marginalization
much more practical ways of transacting
(Deeper meanings of BALA, Nali Kali – meaning of the cards, samudayadatta shaale – purpose of the program)
Can we critique current attempts and learn from these (case studies).