PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATION OF EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE HUMAN PERSON’S SOCIETY

Résumé

Human persons’ society generally and that of the Nigerian person particularly is fraught with so many ills. Education is believed to be one of the measures to tackle most of these societal ills, being that it is believed to be the soul of the society. Unfortunately, education as the soul of the society lacks morality, criticality and other rational tools that are necessary for making policies that will aid education in correcting the societal challenges; since it is regarded as the custodian of societal morality. The reason is that educational administrators and managers have been condemned for being excessively quantitative and too specialized, and also overlooking critical and ethical issues, thus, the placement of interest when making educational policies on production and in particular jobs without asking if such policies will benefit or harm the society. It has resulted in so many vices and loopholes discovered in our educational institutions which invariably have led to so many negative effects in the society. Based upon the forgoing that this paper sought to analytically examine how philosophy can be applied in educational administration to see how it helps administrators to become more efficient in making the inevitable ethical decision to ensure that our education meets up with the global standard in building a better society for the human person.