School Organisation

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Education is a sort of thing that almost all of us got, are still getting or are actually giving in approved schools, colleges, universities and other similar places. In this sense education refers to formal institutionalized education or to those living experiences that are provided by or sanctioned by the state. The formal institutionalized institutions include the schools, colleges and the universities For shaping the character of these institutions, organisation and administration play an important role. Here we are concerned with organisation and administration at the school stage of education only.

Meaning of School Organisation

School organisation is a combination of two words, Viz, school and organisation. In order to understand the meaning of school organisation, it is essential to understand the meaning of school and organisation separately.

Meaning of School

The term school has many different meanings. Some people consider School as a place where the students utilize their leisure hours profitably. Some regard it as a seat of learning; some others believe that it is a society in miniature. Some others interpret school as the temple of Goddess Saraswati, where the students sit together forgetting all their differences on the basis of caste, creed, colour and sex. Because of such differences, the scholars define the term in the following manner.

John Dewey

The school is a special environment where a certain quality of life and certain types of activities are provided with the object of securing child’s development along desirable lines.

Ryburn

“The school” is a co-operative society, a place where giving or taking of co-operation is experienced by all.”

Nunn

“The school must be thought of primarily not as a place of learning where certain knowledge is learnt but as place where young are disciplined in a certain form of activity namely those that are of the greatest and most permanent significance in the wider world:

K.G. Saiyidian

The school is a Centre of rigorous life. It is an indirect intimate contact with the realities of life around, reflecting the best and worthiest of its features which are simple enough to appeal to the child.”

Meaning of Organisation

Organisation means to bring into existence. Organisation is directly connected with planning and efforts made by the people. It is a medium, through which goals and the objectives envisaged by the administration are achieved. Administration is pre-executive stage while actual execution occurs or should occur at the organizational level. It is the coordinated activities of a group of persons constituting the organisation to lead the common goal.

Organisations are of two types, formal and informal. The formal organisation is one established by the external authority. The positions held by the people in such an organisation are determined by some external authorities. For instance, a college has been established by the state government or by some private enterprise. The positions in the college that is, of the principal, vice-principal, professors, readers and lecturers or of ministerial staff are determined not by the workers in the college but by the external authorities.

An informal organisation grows out of a formal organisation or otherwise on account of the interpersonal relationships of the group. There is a common affinity among the members of the formal organisation. Each member of the group is able to interact with every other member of the group. The group is formed voluntarily to achieve certain objectives. The group develops its own structure or technique of working. There is no hierarchical order in the group. They are all more or less equal in all respects except for doing their assignments allotted by the group itself.

Organisation can also be interpreted in another two ways: For example, when we say that this school is under D.A.V. Organisation,
the organisation refers to a body or a controlling organization. When we say the organisation of the school is upto the mark, we mean setting up of things. Thus, organisation is concerned with the pre- execution stage of a school. It is a stage when all arrangements of a school are made available. The term organisation has been defined
as :

J.B.Sears

“It is a machine for doing work. It (Organisation) may be composed primarily of persons of materials of idea of concepts, symbols, forms, rules, principles or more often of a combination of these. The machine may work automatically or its operation may be subject to human judgement and will.”

W.H.Ryburn

“Organisation simply means the practical measures which we take to ensure that the system of work we use will be of the greatest possible assistance in carrying out our aims and of the greatest benefit to our children.”

Elsbrel

“Organisation of the school is the administrative expression of educational theory”.

When we combine the two terms, school and organisation, we mean school organisation is nothing but setting up of an institution. The important steps for school organisation are acquiring land for the school campus, construction of school building, furnishing the class room with furniture, admitting the students of school, appointing headmaster and assistant teachers, organising curricular and co- curricular activities, maintaining cumulative record cards etc. These organisational aspects of the school are mainly concerned with those systems and processes which contribute to the achievement of the set goals, It covers all human and physical factors which may be made available in a properly organised manner for attaining the object in view. The school activities should keep a particular aim in view. For example, we organise co-curricular and social activities so as to generate a proper atmosphere in which the moral character of the students may be developed on the destred lines. For achieving this. emphasis will have to be laid on the appointment of worthy, morally sound and dedicated teachers.

School organisation is concerned with a system in which the headmaster, the teacher, the students and other related persons come as a team to undertake the task of running the school on sound lines. Hence by school organisation we mean the act of organising all available physical and human resources in an organised manner to attain the objectives of education.

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