EDM 211: EDUCATIONAL PLANNING AND POLICY

Answers in CAPS

1. DROR defined planning as the process of preparing a set of decisions for action in the future directed at achieving goals by optimal means.

2. CHURCHMAN defined planning as a matrix of interdependent and sequential series of systematically related decisions.

3. FRIEDMAN defined planning as an interactive process with decisions reached as a result of dialogue.

4. Definitions of planning given by DROR, SIMON and CHURCHMAN can be regarded as RATIONAL/TECHNICAL planning.

5. FRIEDMAN’S definition of planning as an interactive process with decisions reached as a result of dialogue can be regarded as INTERACTIVE/TRANSACTIONAL planning.