Fundamentals of Educational Planning

The modern conception of educational planning has attracted specialists from many disciplines. Each of them tends to see planning rather differently. The purpose of some of the booklets is to help these people explain their particular point of view to one another and to the younger men and women who are being trained to replace them some day. But behind this diversity there is a new and growing unity. Specialists and administrators in developing countries are coming to accept certain basic principles and practices that owe something to the separate disciplines but are yet a unique contribution to knowledge by a body of pioneers who have had to attack together educational problems more urgent and difficult than any the world had ever known. So other booklets in the series represent their common experience, and provide in short compass some of the best available ideas and experience concerning selected aspects of educational planning.

Although the series, under the general editorship of Dr. C.E Beeby, has been planned on a definite pattern, no attempt has been made to avoid differences, or even contradiction. It would be premature, in the Institute's view, to lay down a neat and tidy official doctrine in this new and rapidly evolving field of knowledge and practice. UNESCO or the Institute, they are believed to warrent attention in the international market place of ideas. In short, this seems the appropriate moment to make visible a cross-section of the different opinions whose combined experience covers many disciplines and a high proportion of countries of the world.