The Dark Side of Educational Leadership Superintendents and the Professional Victim Syndrome

by Polka, Walter S.,; Litchka, Peter R.

• ISBN13: 9781578868599
• ISBN10: 1578868599
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: R&L Education

Summary

"A resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides insights into specific resiliency behaviors that contribute to superintendents' abilities to overcome the trauma associated with being a professional victim. Specifically illuminating those issues that contribute most often to the victimization of superintendents. Polka and Litchka identify resiliency factors of most significance to superintendents in dealing with the professional victim syndrome, helping superintendents to better prepare for the professional victim syndrome during their professional career."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Peter R. Litchka is assistant professor of education and director of the graduate program in educational leadership at Loyola College in Maryland. Walter S. Polka is associate professor of educational leadership at the Niagara University College of Education in New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
Victims	p. 1
Help Wanted	p. 19
Mobbing	p. 33
This Can't Be Happening to Me	p. 51
Beyond the Glass Ceiling	p. 65
I Was Only Following Orders	p. 83
You Gotta Be Kidding	p. 97
You Never Know	p. 115
A Broken Heart Forever	p. 127
Family Matters	p. 143
No Superintendent Left Behind	p. 159
Compass: A Survival Guide	p. 171
The Professional Victim Study (2006)	p. 179
References	p. 199
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