Roles of Resource Person in Supervision
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Department of Educational Planning and Management
Abstract
Resource Person is local level educational officer who are responsible for the
overall management of education system. This study is an effort in education
field to assess the roles of the Resource Person, effectiveness of their
performance in quality improvement of education, challenges faced by them and
measures to minimize these challenges.
Dailekh is a hilly district located at western part of Nepal which has 12
Resource Centers (RC) with one Resource Person in each resource center. This
study is concentrated on roles, effectiveness and challenges of Resource Person
in supervision of the study area. This study has conducted in only one resource
center with 6 total number of schools in which two are secondary level schools
and four basic level schools. As latest amendment of educational policy up to
grade eight is considered as Basic level and twelve is regarded as Secondary
level. Out of two secondary level schools one is nearer to resource center and
one is far from it. Likewise, two basic schools lie nearer to the resource center
and two are farther apart. I used both qualitative and quantitative technics
along with primary and secondary data. Purposive sampling method was used
to select schools. Questionnaire method was used to collect necessary
information. To know the geographical obstacles how affect the education and
supervision process. The major roles of Resource Person are administrative,
social, facilitative & advisory. The effectiveness of Resource Person depends
on field visit, use of ICT, participation in enforcement of physical
infrastructures, attendance in particulars and meetings, seminars.
The major challenges faced by Resource Person they are accessibility,
maximum number of schools, administrative burden, political pressure and
uneducated people. Resource Person has mainly three roles i.e., administrative, social and advisory. Among different roles the administrative role is major and
most time consuming role of Resource Person.
The schools nearer to resource center has good performance in education
quality in comparison to farther schools. Accessibility and maximum number of
schools are major challenges faced by Resource Person among many of them.
The measures to minimize challenges are free from political pressure,
reasonable number of schools, clear division of labor and personality
development through trainings. This study suggest to give rights enough to
regulate supervision, relief administrative burden and minimize irrelevant
challenges.