Social Justice Approach - Types of management approaches, School Management & Administration

 

Types of management approaches

Management plays a crucial role in the making of any organisation. There is a need for adopting various approaches and techniques in the process of educational planning so as to arrive at the most realistic planning model to maximise the output.

There are different approaches to educational planning. Each planning approach has its unique features.

Few important approaches of educational management are

• Manpower approach
• Cost benefit approach
• Social demand approach
• Social justice approach
• Rate of return approach
• Intra educational extrapolation approach

Social Justice Approach:

This approach emphasizes justice to the disadvantaged sections of society and is based on Article 45 of the Indian Constitution.

This approach is aimed at making special provisions for the socially, economically and educationally disadvantaged communities for a longer duration.

It is also known as social planning or planning for social development.

The approach holds that an education system of a country can be shaped according to the social or national goals of a country.

The national policies and the constitution of a nation broadly describe these goals and the social development.

Many of the goals, thus set, are largely dependent on education. Hence, it becomes essential that educational system should contribute to the achievement of these goals.

Hence, educational planning inevitably takes these expected goals of social development into consideration to be achieved through education.

To achieve the goal of social development, social justice has to be achieved first.

Making provision for achieving this goal would amount to social justice approach to educational planning.

Social justice means providing facilities and equal opportunities for development to all the people of a country. For instance, Article 45 of the Indian Constitution urges the state to provide for free and compulsory education for all children up to the age of fourteen.

In the same purview, special provisions for the education of children from economically and socially backward communities would be an attempt to provide justice to this section of the society.

The adoption of social justice approach is evidenced by making such considerations at the time of educational planning.