Education Management in India-the Need for Caution

It is the contention of this paper that one has to take a cautious approach in case of India towards ‘education management ’coming from the west for the following reasons-(a) management has always been subject to critique which is worth recalling (b) education management has arisen in the context of the New Public Management ideology which pushes a universal presentist Anglo-Saxon management as a panacea (c) management theories are imported from non-education context to education without considering the compatibility (d) education management practice of one socio political context is proposed for another context without recognizing the specificity of the context. It is proposed that education management should take into account the specificity and diversity of the Indian context)