This volume develops a theoretical and critical foundation for understanding "maladministration" - the phenomena of harmful administrative and organizational behaviours in educational systems.

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.

Contents

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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, Idris Sahin, 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