International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE)
ISSN: 2277-3878, Volume-8 Issue-3, September 2019
5635
Published By:
Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering
& Sciences Publication
Retrieval Number: C6885098319/2019©BEIESP
DOI:10.35940/ijrte.C6885.098319
Abstract: As per Gen Colin Powell, the leadership is solving
problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the
day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost
confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either
case is a failure of leadership. In this article, we focused to
understand the requirement of future School leaders is recognized
by one and all as an important wind of change in the overall realm
of affairs. The factors, external or internal are going to suggest
out pathway towards redefining future Indian School Leaders. To
that end, the concept presented in this article has been an effort to
reiterate, reinvent and also to discover new areas of focus.
Keywords : School Education System, Quality Analysis,
Leadership Assessment, Government School.
I. INTRODUCTION
Many a book, paper, article and research paper have been
written on the interesting topic of Leadership since years.
School Leadership too has gained attention of many and the
subject has been given due importance off late in India. But
as time changes, the face of Education has also changed
continuously and consequently the leadership requirements
have also undergone plethora of transitions. Needless to say,
few changes would be peculiar to a State and few generally
applicable to the School leadership as such.
Given the importance of professionalism, it might be
thought that the government regularly analyses it. The fact is,
it has done so only episodically and that too only when
confronted with a crisis. Since the subject undergoes
transformation with time it would be prudent to carry out yet
another study to assess the leadership requirements as they
stand today to build future school leaders peculiar to Indian
Education System.
A. Aim
The aim of this paper is to redefine the Leadership
requirements of future School Leaders.
B. Scope
The paper analyses the subject under the following heads :-
Changing Socio Political Environment.
Requirement of changing future School leaders.
Challenges within Existing System and
Recommendations.
Revised Manuscript Received on September 23, 2019
* Correspondence Author
Nafees Fatima*, Research Scholar, Department of International School
of Business Management, Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan,
India. E-mail: nafees.iaf@gmail.com
T.K. Jain, Department of International School of Business Management,
Suresh Gyan Vihar University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. E-mail:
trilokkr.jain@mygyanvihar.com
II. CHANGING SOCIO POLITICAL
ENVIRONMENT
We cannot completely isolate our schools from the
changing social, political and economic reforms that are
happening throughout the world. It has been suggested
without much skepticism by many that such factors alone may
be largely responsible for shaking the natural dynamism of
creating Leaders. The various societal and political and
economic influences that posing serious challenges and
threats to the education system today are as follows:-
A. Materialistic and Consumer Culture
In the fast paced world of booming economy and
skyrocketing markets the profession of teachers has also felt
the effects of such splurge of materialism and consumerism.
For the Government Schools, the consequences are not so
favourable and encouraging because the lucrative and
profitable options in the International schools tend to prevent
the potential bright young teachers who otherwise would have
taken a call to join Schools in government sector.
Many who are not seeing a career progression may find
themselves having no professional growth in turn gets
disappointed with their current assignment and they begin to
assume that grass greener on the other side. In private sector
employees focus on improving the life style instead of getting
into tough working conditions which has become a part of life
for some working in the government, only to add on to the
problem comes the things like postings and separation from
family and frequent detainment for temporary duty like
Election Duty or duty to do a survey or duty on polio day.
B. Media Revolution
In the last few years the schools have seen an exorbitant
change with the role and involvement of Media in it. The
awareness of the public has also increased tremendously in
last few years. Our Schools were not prepared for the Media
Revolution. They were taken by surprise with the increase in
awareness. The increasing awareness levels has exposed the
activities concerning that involves large sums of money.
Educational Reforms like the Right to Education Act
(RTE), Right to Information (RTI) Act and Protection of
Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) have generated
a curiosity leading to the rise in interest of public as these acts
were made for the benefit for the needy. All this exposure to
media has caused the schools to appear less glamorous and
more under scanner. The respect surrounding the profession
of Teachers is also looked upon
with a suspicion and it has been
watered down by the intrusive
Strategy to Increase the Leadership Quality in
Government Schools Based on Need of the Hour
Nafees Fatima, T.K. Jain