This document provides instructions for a task in an Education Management module. Students are asked to discuss and differentiate the concepts of education administration, management, and leadership. For each concept, they must list 5 definitions from different authors and reference them properly. They must also identify the one definition they agree with most and explain their choice. Finally, they should list 5 school-related activities for each concept, focusing on rules for administration, relationships for management, and improvement for leadership. The task is due on August 24, 2011.

1. Tshwane University of Technology
Faculty of Humanities
Department of Education Studies
Task 1 – 10 August 2011
Lecturer: Dr Muavia Gallie
Module: EDU210T (Education Management)
Submission Date: 24 August 2011
This task is a culmination of discussion that took place during the fist
lesson of the second semester. The focus of the lesson was on the
difference between Education Administration, Management and
Leadership. More often than not, these three concepts are treated in
the literature and books as similar or more or lest the same. We
therefore argued that these terms, from the position of the lecturer,
are different in the following way:
• Education Administration – it has to do with the implementation
and adherence of the RULES and REGULATIONS (policies,
agreements, Acts, etc.) of an organisation/school. Therefore, an
administrator should know the documents where these rules and
regulations emanating from as part of the basis of performing his/
her duties/responsibilities;
• Education Management – it has to do with the facilitation of
healthy human relations between those in the organisation/
school, whether the relationship is vertical and/or horizontal.
Therefore, a managers should have people skills, and know how
and when to apply these skills given the different types of
personalities and traits among people;
• Education Leadership – it has to do with the design, development
and implementation of a vision (future preferred state) that excites
colleagues to do whatever it takes to achieve the future goals/
station. Therefore, a leader must be able to pursued people,
excite people, challenge people, redirect people, be prepared to
be challenged, to be unpopular for a while, etc. in order to achieve
the future preferred results.
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2. Based on the above, you task is to discuss each of these three
concepts under the following headings:
1. List 5 definitions on each of these concepts from 5 different
authors well known within the discipline. You must ensure that
these definitions are properly referenced in terms of the Harvard
method;
2. From the list above, identify the one definition which you agree the
most, and motivate why you chose this one;
3. List 5 activities which take place at school that are directly related
to these concepts. Take note that the administration should focus
on rules and regulation application, the management should focus
on people relationship and interaction, while the leadership should
focus on ideas, solving problems and improving results.
As indicated above, this task is due on 24 August 2011, during class
time.
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