Introduction

Department of Education Planning and Management is one of the oldest and pioneer departments of the Faculty of Education. It has an opportunity to produce and empower diverse educational planners, managers, supervisors, teachers, professors and researchers working in the field of educational, social and physical sciences. The faculties in the department have a rich history in the publication, research and training across national and international arenas.

Faculty Members

Currently, six faculty members are involved in instructional activities, research and training programs in the department. The faculty members are engaged in various academic pursuits that range from academic exchange, networking to collaborative research with both national and international partners of different disciplines. 

S.N	Faculty Members	Designation
1.	Ganesh Prasad Khanal	Associate Professor
2.	Narayan Prasad Adhikari	Lecturer and Head
3.	Dawa Sherpa	Lecturer
4.	Surya Prasad Adhikari	Lecturer
5.	Jhupa Kumari Budhathoki	Lecturer
6.	Laxmi Khadka	Lecturer

 

Courses and Description

First Semester Ed. 511 Foundations of Education Ed. 513 Advanced Psychology Ed. PM 515 Planning Education for Change Ed. PM 516 Theories of Educational Management and Leadership Ed. PM 517 Educational Administration and Supervision Ed. 518 PM Organizational Behaviour in Education	Second Semester Ed. 521 Curriculum Practice Ed. 522 Education Development Ed PM 525 Recent Trends in Educational Planning and Management Ed. PM 526 Educational Resource Management Ed. PM 527 Theories and Practice of Non-Formal Education Ed. PM 528 Financing of Education
Third Semester Ed. 531 Measurement and Evaluation Ed. 532 Research Methodology in Education Ed.PM 536 Financing of Education Ed. PM 537 Managing Diversities in Education Ed. PM 538 School Management Ed. PM 539 Social Justice in Education	Fourth Semester Ed. 541 Contemporary Issues Ed. PM. 542 Monitoring, Evaluation and Research in EPM Ed. PM 543 Practicum in EPM Ed. 545 Thesis Writing

Courses and description

Course Title: Planning Education for Change

This course is designed for the Master's degree (M.Ed.) students to provide them with general knowledge about planning education for change. Its aim is to help the students develop the knowledge and skills which are necessary to formulate and implement the plan and policy of education that aims at bringing educational change and addressing the issues of national development. Education as a dynamic process has to be made possible by planning it for bringing the desired result i.e. changes in the status of people. Students, under this course, are, therefore, encouraged to have a broader conceptual clarity about latent force of education which is brought out to the fore through its planning. 

Course Title: Theories of Educational Management and Leadership   

This course is designed for those students who specialize in Educational Planning and Management at the M.Ed. level. The main intention of this course is to provide in-depth understanding of theories of educational management and leadership.  The course also deals with the interface between theories of management and leadership. Moreover, this course enriches the students’ thinking on ways and measures to apply management and leadership theories in operating educational institutions. The course, therefore, intends to engage the students in brief case studies and field studies to get a feel of the operating educational organizations

Course Title: Educational Administration and Supervision

This course aims at providing general knowledge about educational administration and supervision to Master degree (M.Ed.) students. It intends to orient the students to theoretical bases of educational administration and supervision by relating them to some established practices. Educational administration and supervision is an applied discipline for bringing the desired result i.e. efficient and effective educational organization and the students are therefore encouraged to have a broader conceptual clarity about its different facets that work in tandem to drive the organization to deliver quality education services to the people.                             

Course Title:  Organizational Behaviour in Education

This course is designed for those students who specialize in educational planning and management at Master of Education (M.Ed.). The aim of this course is to provide an in-depth understanding of theory and practice of organizational behavior (OB) and change relating to educational institutions. This course enriches the students' understanding and thinking and stimulates them to apply the knowledge of organizational behaviour and change gained through classroom interaction and experiential exercises in operating educational institutions.

Course Title: Recent Trends in Educational Planning and Management

This course acquaints the students with recent trends and developments that have shaped educational planning and management in the beginning of the third millennium. Its aim is to help the students to be familiar with the changes that have occurred over the years and relate them to the present day planning and management practices.  It further intends to place the students on a new footing of trends that give meaning to this discipline along the changed context of the world.

Course Title:  Educational Management Information System (EMIS)                     

This course is designed for those students who intend to be program personnel or practitioners of education management information system (EMIS). It aims to help the students develop the knowledge and skills which are necessary to formulate and implement EMIS trends. Students are encouraged throughout the course to consult libraries, education related institutes, relevant we-sites and participate in classroom discussion. This course is related with planning, various aspects of EMIS development as latest concept of management information system MIS, EMIS system indicators of education system, EMIS in Nepalese education system.

Course Title: Educational Resource Management

Educational Resource Management aims at providing general knowledge about educational resource management to Master degree (M.Ed.) students. It intends to orient the students about theoretical bases of human resource in particular and other educational resources in general, and their management by relating them to some established practices. Contents of the course are primarily dealt in reference to school education. Educational resource management as an applied discipline supports effective and efficient implementation of the plans and programs. Therefore, this course encourages students to have a broader conceptual clarity about the importance of effective resource management to make the education system efficient and thereby ensure equitable quality education.

Course Title: Theory and Practices of Non Formal Education

Theory and practices of Non Formal Education (NFE) aims at orienting about conceptual basis and modes of education that do not necessarily subscribe to the traditional mainstream education to the Master degree (M.Ed.) students.  It intends to provide knowledge about the way NFE is approached in different settings. While doing so students will be oriented about theoretical bases of different learning approaches. Another significant feature of the course is introduction to lifelong learning.  Therefore this course encourages students to gain a broader knowledge about NFE to ensure equitable quality education for all, particularly for adults.  

Course Title: Financing of Education

This course on Financing of Education aims at orienting about conceptual basis and modes of education financing with particular reference to school education to higher education students. It intends to provide knowledge about the way education in general and school education in particular are financed and regulated. The course also orients students about different practices of ensuring financial accountability in education sector.  Thus this course encourages students to have a broader conceptual clarity about financing of education. 

Course Title: Managing Diversities in Education                     

This course is designed to provide students with perspectives of diversities that are to be managed in education. It particularly acquaints the students with the performance, practices and factors of diversity management with emphasis on multicultural perspectives. Diversity technology, sources of diversity and managing diversities of people that result from different backgrounds that they come from are the focus of the course.

Course Title:  School Management                                    

This course is designed to provide the students with the recent approaches of managing public/community schools.  This course specifically deals with theoretical and practical perspectives of school-based management and enriches the students’ understanding of improving school effectiveness. The course also deals with school emergency management plan. Through experiential exercises the students gain insight into practical know-how of school-based management.

Course Title: Social Justice Education

This course is designed to assist the potential educators to understand, appreciate and practice the essence of social justice in real life situation. It also intends to generate multiplier effect of social justice education extending from the master’s level classroom to the realities of the households. It will assist students in familiarizing themselves with the issues of social justice by exploring their own assumptions and beliefs. 

The students are supposed to identify not only the local social justice issues but also relate and explore them at the national and international context. In this sense, the course intends to help the students situate themselves in the lived reality and connect with the macro environment around them with a critical perspective.

Course Title: Monitoring, Evaluation and Research in Planning and Management  

This course is designed to provide students with perspectives of monitoring, evaluation and research in planning and management in education. It particularly acquaints the students with the performance and practices in educational planning and management with emphasis on monitoring, evaluation and research perspectives. Dynamics of monitoring and evaluation, research development results, use of qualitative and quantitative research in Educational Planning and Management, and planning educational research are the foci of this course.   

Course Title: School Culture and Change

This course has a key focus on school culture and educational change with reference to school reform. Emphasis is laid on the learning experiences to reflect on the meaning and importance of school culture and to develop and use appropriate tools to diagnose and assess the school culture. Students through this course develop critical understanding of the issues and problems of improving school culture at both public and private schools in Nepal. In addition, opportunities for learning about the meaning and importance of inclusive school culture with a broader perspective on educational change and school effectiveness are provided through this course.

Course Title: Contemporary Issues in Educational Planning and Management 

This course is designed to provide students with an orientation to contemporary issues in educational planning and management. It makes an attempt to particularly acquaint the students with discourses on current issues of educational planning and management in order to help them develop dynamic perspectives to identify and look into cross cutting issues of  planning and management of education with a reference to Nepalese education system. The foci of the course are: Access to the use of technology, sources, trends and development of planning along with managing of contemporary issues of education.

For any Queries:

Naryan Prasad Adhikari (Head)

narayan.adhikari@cded.tu.edu.np