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

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

• ISBN13: 9781578868605
• ISBN10: 1578868602
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781578868827
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-12-16
• Publisher: R&L Education
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Summary

A valuable resource to institutions of higher education and various state and national superintendent organizations and agencies, The Dark Side of Educational Leadership provides valuable 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, well-researched chapters demonstrate strategies employed by superintendents to prevent similar issues from causing additional pain.

Author Biography

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

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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