"This volume develops a theoretical and critical foundation for understanding ""maladministration""—the phenomena of harmful administrative and organisational behaviours in educational systems. Chapter authors provide theoretical and practice-based perspectives across international contexts regarding common destructive practices that occur in educational organisations, such as negligence and mistreatment of people, professional dishonesty, fraud and embezzlement, abuse of power, and corrupt organisational cultures. International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education shines a light on this complex topic by examining various practices at individual, group, organisational, and system levels; the contexts and influences that give rise to them; and potential remedies to ensure more accountable, just, and safe institutions."
Contents List of Figures List of Tables Chapter 1 Introduction: The Landscape of Maladministration in Education Eugenie A. Samier and Peter Milley PART I - Foundational Theories and Models Chapter 2 The Total Toxic Institution: When Organisations Fail Psychologically, Socially and Morally Eugenie A. Samier Chapter 3 A Critical Theory Analysis of the Production of Toxic and Zombie Leadership in the Context of Neoliberalism John Smyth Chapter 4 Maladministration in the UK Education System: A Sociolinguistic Perspective Yasemin Yildiz Chapter 5 Systemic Maladministration in the Digital Age: Serving the Individual or Bureaucracy in Educational Administration? Eveline Wittmann PART II - Researching and Teaching the Dark Side Chapter 6 Beyond the Normative: Theorising Maladministration Relationally Scott Eacott Chapter 7 Methodological Issues in Researching Maladministration Megan Crawford Chapter 8 Foundational Understandings of the ‘Dark Side’ of Leadership: Can Machiavelli, in Neoliberal Times, Assist Graduate Readings of the Word and World? Carol E. Harris PART III - Contemporary Issues and Cases Internationally Chapter 9 The Intersectionality of Leadership: International Considerations Sheri R. Klein and Read Montgomery Diket Chapter 10 Analysis of Maladministration of Selection and Assignment of School Principals in Turkey: A Critical Perspective Kadir Beycioglu, İdris Şahin, and Fatma Kesik Chapter 11 The Good School/The Bad Head Teacher: Neo-Managerialism and the Re-Making of the Head Teacher Danilo Taglietti, Emiliano Grimaldi, and Roberto Serpieri Chapter 12 Strategies of Discursive Closure Maladministrators Use to ‘Manage’ Their Misdeeds Peter Milley Chapter 13 Administrators Behaving (and Being Treated) Badly Under Neoliberal Global Conditions: Playing Players Played Duncan Waite and Jason R. Swisher Chapter 14 Workplace Bullying in Schools: An Ecological Perspective Corene De Wet Contributors
Eugenie A. Samier is Reader in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Peter Milley is Assistant Professor of Leadership, Evaluation, Curriculum, and Policy and Senior Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Reviews for International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education: Theories, Research, and Critiques
Malign performance metrics, soul-crushing audit systems, and wannabe Machiavellians beware, International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education deftly exposes the dark underbelly of educational managementã culture in the neoliberal era. These superb critical essays do more than expose the entrenched systems that produce toxic administration, they help us imagine alternative forms of institutional life based on democratic values, practices, and shared governance. ã -Alexander J. Means, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Psychological Foundations of Education, State University of New York, College at Buffalo, USA This book takes a measured, thoughtful and unrelenting look at the forces at play in contemporary education, interrogates practices of maladministration, and calls for a more humane organization that will release rather than stifle human potential. -Janice Wallace, Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canadaã
