On Terminology of School / Educational Administration / Management in the Cross-cultural Context

The terms of / and / educational administration / in Chinese and English are both connected with and different from each other in their wording and connotations.In Chinese,management / administration refers to the behavior that rules and manages institutions or matters according to certain laws so as to coordinate parties involved therein,and further to achieve certain goals,whereas in English,it involves that of general public affairs as well as of specific activities of management.As to school / educational administration / management,the Chinese term means both the macroscopic educational administration and the microscopic school management,while the English term refers chiefly to the specific management of school teaching and the organization and leadership of education.