Course Lecturer: DR TENENG PATIENCE EPSE BAME

COURSE TITLE: EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND TRAINING

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Year: 2021-2022   Course Type : R Fundamental £ cut-across □ Professional

Semester: 1 □ Complementary □ Optional

Training Axes to be covered : Concepts in Educational Administration; Administrative

Processes and Functions; Issues of School Administration in Cameroon; Principalship and
Leadership; educational supervision(processes and functions)
Overall course hours and Lectures : Tutorials practicals : Personal Total 60
study:
divisions : 20 : 20 15
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1. Course description
This course is designed to help students understand the principles, purposes and
processes of educational administration. It specifically deals with the problems and
issues related to school administration and supervision system in Cameroon. It also
provides the students with learning opportunities to understand and reflect upon the
emerging trends and issues of educational administration and supervision.

2. General Objectives
The general objectives of this course are as follows:

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  Understanding the meaning, concept and theory of educational
administration.
 Describing the processes involved in administration with their explanation in
the school milieu.
 Assessing the issues of school administration in Cameroon.
 Developing understanding of meaning, concepts and process of supervision.
 Be familiar with and use the processes involved in supervision.
 Developing critical understanding of the development, processes and issues
of school supervision in Cameroon.

Possible course Outlets or Graduate Destinations

After this course, Graduates can possibly become:

 Educational administrators or managers

 School principals
 Head teachers
 Project managers
 Human resource heads
 Financial managers and more

3. Contents in Detail with Specific Objectives

Specific Objectives Contents
• Explain the meaning of Unit One: Concepts of Educational
administration. Administration

• Distinguish between administration 1.1 Meaning of administration

and management. 1.2 Difference between administration and

• Describe the meaning of school management

administration. 1.3 Overview of educational administration

• Understand the theory of 1.4 Theory of educational administration

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 administration. 1.5 Decision making in educational
• Discuss the dynamics of decision administration
making in educational
administration.
• Describing various processes Unit Two: Administrative Processes
involved in school administration. 2.1. Planning
• Explaining the major tasks to be 2.2. Organizing
undertaken in each stage of 2.3. Communicating
administrative process. 2.4. Influencing

Discussing the problems and 2.5. Co-coordinating

challenges of administrative processes.
• Discussing the various issues and
challenges of school administration in
Cameroon.
2.6. Evaluating
Unit Three: Issues of school administration in
Cameroon
3.1. Bureaucratic control
3.2. Diversity in teachers’ appointment,
promotion and transfer
3.3. Head teachers’ and principals’
appointment
3.4. School decision-making and the roles of
school management committee

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• Showing how knowledge of Unit Four: Leadership as Principalship
leadership affects school leadership 4.1 Who is a Leader?
of principals and head teachers 4.2 Characteristics of a leader
4.3 Classical Leadership Styles
 Authoriterian
 Democratic
 Laisez-faire
 Situational
4.4 Leadership role
 Staff Development
 Developing the Environment for Growth
 Sharing Authority and Responsibility
with Personel
4.5 Four Dimension Leadership
 Support
 Interaction facilitation
 Goal emphasis
 Work facilitation
• Discussing how government policy Unit five: School Legislation
and external influence through Consultation of Internal and international
government ratification of texts
international conventions influence
education in Cameroon.

• Discussing how 21st century E-Administration and E-Govenance in

knowledge explosision in terms of education and Institutional performance
internet development, artificial
intelligence, robotics and
globalization and how they influence
adminiatration

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Group presentations Peer and Lecturer appraisal

4. Teaching methodology:
 Lecture and formative assignments to links, websites
 Class discussions
 Independent study
 Group presentations
 Course will be put on Google classroom
Assessments:
Formative assessments will be done through group presentations. This will constitute
30%
Summative assessment will be done at the end of the semester where general exam
questions will be set for individual work. Students should show mastery of course
and demonstrate analytic skills by using course knowledge to solve real life
problems raised in the exams questions. This will constitute 70%

Graduate Outlets and targeted Destinations:

 Graduates from this course are expected to become educational
administrators, such as principals, head teachers, school entrepreneurs,
leaders of organizations of any kind, directors of projects and more.

References

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Fonkeng and Tamanjong. (2009), Secondary School Administration and Principal
ship. Yaounde – Cameroon, Presses Universities D’Afrique Vol. (2).
Fonkeng E.G (2007) The History of Education in Cmeroon from 1884-2009.
Ndiva Mbua F (2003) Educational Administration: Theory and Practice. Limde
Design House, Cameroon
Luma L.E (1983) The Education of African Teachers- Yaounde- Sopecam
Introduction to Educational Administration; A Module. By Eric Chinedu Amadi
2008. See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273143560