Trust and Betrayal in Educational Administration and Leadership

<p>This collection explores critical and foundational theory for trust in educational administration and leadership as it influences a broad range of topics, such as ethics, governance, diversity, policy, management, and power. It demonstrates the relevance of this foundation to practical issues and problems internationally, both within the organizational context and extra-organizationally. Contributors from throughout the world focus on the application of trust factors as they affect our understanding of, and practice in, educational organizations. This volume will be of interest to students and faculty of educational administration theory, the policy and politics of education, and educational leadership as well as practitioners and policy makers.</p> <p><strong>Editors’ Introductions. </strong>The Interdisciplinary Foundation of Trust: From Trustworthiness to Betrayal <em>Eugenie A. Samier</em>. Theoretical, Practical, and Research Perspectives of Trust in Educational Administration and Leadership <em>Michèle Schmidt</em> <strong>Part I: Theoretical Foundations </strong>1. Exploring the Dynamics of Work Place Trust, Personal Agency, and Administrative Heuristics <em>Cheryl L. Bolton and Fenwick W. English </em>2. Educational Trust: A Critical Component in the (De)cultivation of Social Capital in School Districts <em>Michèle Schmidt </em>3. Trust in Organisational, Leadership, and Management Studies: Theories, Approaches, and Conceptions <em>Eugenie A. Samier </em><strong>Part II: Research Approaches </strong>4. Reconceptualising Educational Administration as a Hermeneutics of Trust <em>Stephanie Mackler and Séamus Mulryan </em>5. Studying the Psychological and Cultural Wages of Mistrust: An Essay on Organisational Torment under a Suspicious Regime <em>Eugenie A. Samier </em>6. Developing Trust through Collaborative Research: Mentoring Graduate Students of Colour <em>Cynthia Gerstl-Pepin and Marybeth Gasman </em><strong>Part III: Critical and Current Issues </strong>7. Toxic Leadership and the Erosion of Trust in Higher Education <em>Sheri R. Klein </em>8. In Schools We Trust? Leadership <em>in loco parentis</em> and the Failure to Protect Students from Bullying and Harassment <em>Dominique E. Johnson </em>9. Administration, Education, and the Question of Trust <em>Richard Bates </em>10. The Politics of Derision, Distrust and Deficit: The Damaging Consequences for Youth and Communities Put at a Disadvantage <em>John Smyth </em>11. (Non)-Legal Requirements for Trust in Slovenian Higher Education <em>Uroš Pinterič </em>12. Personalisation: The Individual, Trust, and Education in a Neo-liberal World <em>Helen M. Gunter, Stephen Rogers, and Charlotte Woods</em></p>