International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education

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.

"Malign performance metrics, soul-crushing audit systems, and wannabe Machiavellians beware, International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education deftly exposes the dark underbelly of educational management 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." —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 organisation that will release rather than stifle human potential."—Janice Wallace, Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canada

• ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesChapter 1 Introduction: The Landscape of Maladministration in EducationEugenie A. Samier and Peter MilleyPART I - Foundational Theories and ModelsChapter 2 The Total Toxic Institution: When Organisations Fail Psychologically, Socially and MorallyEugenie A. SamierChapter 3 A Critical Theory Analysis of the Production of Toxic and Zombie Leadership in the Context of NeoliberalismJohn SmythChapter 4 Maladministration in the UK Education System: A Sociolinguistic PerspectiveYasemin YildizChapter 5 Systemic Maladministration in the Digital Age: Serving the Individual or Bureaucracy in Educational Administration?Eveline WittmannPART II - Researching and Teaching the Dark SideChapter 6 Beyond the Normative: Theorising Maladministration RelationallyScott EacottChapter 7 Methodological Issues in Researching MaladministrationMegan CrawfordChapter 8 Foundational Understandings of the ‘Dark Side’ of Leadership: Can Machiavelli, in Neoliberal Times, Assist Graduate Readings of the Word and World?Carol E. HarrisPART III - Contemporary Issues and Cases InternationallyChapter 9 The Intersectionality of Leadership: International ConsiderationsSheri R. Klein and Read Montgomery DiketChapter 10 Analysis of Maladministration of Selection and Assignment of School Principals in Turkey: A Critical PerspectiveKadir Beycioglu, İdris Şahin, and Fatma KesikChapter 11 The Good School/The Bad Head Teacher: Neo-Managerialism and the Re-Making of the Head TeacherDanilo Taglietti, Emiliano Grimaldi, and Roberto SerpieriChapter 12 Strategies of Discursive Closure Maladministrators Use to ‘Manage’ Their MisdeedsPeter MilleyChapter 13 Administrators Behaving (and Being Treated) Badly Under Neoliberal Global Conditions: Playing Players PlayedDuncan Waite and Jason R. SwisherChapter 14 Workplace Bullying in Schools: An Ecological PerspectiveCorene De WetContributors