Managing schools by Filipino values. / Tomas Quintin Andres.

but the fourth is the most recommendable approach. This book is an answer to a long felt need by school managers, educational administrators, educators, practitioners, beginners, school heads, school principals, professors, students and researchers for a book on school management in the Philippine setting.

the second and the third are attractive

School management must be incarnated in the context of the culture, values, morale, and idiosyncracies of the people wherein it is applied and practiced. In the Philippines, many school management systems have been transplanted from the West without any attempt to adapt or modify them to suit the Philippine conditions and the Filipinos' given behavior, sentiments and values. But what the West and highly industrialized Oriental countries are doing now in management may be what Filipinos in the Philippines should do later yet. There is indeed, a compelling need for the indigenization and Filipinization of school management if it is to have its enriching effectiveness to stimulate the best in the Filipino. There are four ways of contextualizing school management in the Philippine setting. One way is by being a syncretizer, that is trying to harmonize Western school management system with Filipino culture. The second way is by being an accomodator, that is, by selecting the good ideas and practices from other school management systems and adapting them to Philippine purposes. A third approach is that of a situationist who seeks to contextualize Western school management systems in relation to the living situation of Filipino people at a crucial time. Finally, there is the approach of an orienter, relating school management systems to the actual issues Filipino school managers and practitioners are facing today in the Philippines. The first approach is too compromising