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This volume examines the causes and consequences of workplace incivility in P-12 education and provides practical strategies for leaders to prevent toxicity in their schools. This text is for faculty and scholars of educational leadership as well for aspiring leaders who are interested in cultivating affirming and healing educational spaces.
List of contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: Considering the Role of Leaders and Preparation Programs in Fostering Civility 2. Teachers' Perspectives on the Sources and Solutions to Incivility in Schools 3. The Neuroscience of Leaders' Incivility 4. Using Restorative Justice to Address Student-Perpetrated Incivility in Schools 5. Reclaiming Human Flourishing in Teacher and Leadership Education: Addressing Cultures of Incivility in Higher Education
Part 2: Vulnerability, Marginalization, and Incivility 6. Incivility, Microaggressions, and Psychological Safety in Schools 7. Marginalized Populations as Targets of Incivility: The Case of Queer and Trans Educators 8. Mean Girls in Educational Leadership: Overcoming Incivility Among Women
Part 3: Incivility in Context 9. The Common Denominator: Black Women Educators' Experiences with Selective Incivility 10. District Leadership and the Politics of Incivility: Classroom Mobbing and the Crisis of Carework 11. Drowning in a Cesspool of Social Media Incivility: Damages to Leaders' Psychological Functioning and Well-being
About the author
Kara Lasater is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Arkansas, USA.
Kristina N. LaVenia is Senior Lecturer at The University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
James W. Koschoreck is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Texas State University, USA.
