Implementing Quality Management Systems in Preschool Education
Abstract
This paper aims to highlight essential contributions in terms of management development in preschool institutions, the facts that leads to increasing quality of the entire educational process. Approaching this topic and bending with particular interest in the field of formal education in Romania, we dive into the essence of educational management so that we can offer important constructive suggestions for optimizing analysis activities and implicitly increasing performance in terms of specific management of the network of kindergartens. Preschool education is the cornerstone of the formation of human personality, as well as the first gateway to knowledge. To ensure high quality in education, a complex process is needed, very well organized and structured, which must be integrated into the institutional culture of the organization.
Talking about quality management while focusing on quality in education represents in fact an analysis and careful research on management actions aimed directly at increasing the satisfaction of the needs of the beneficiaries of the educational system.
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