Full Description
This edited volume examines the causes, consequences, and costs of workplace incivility in P-12 education and provides practical strategies for leaders to prevent toxicity in their schools and districts. The resource provides a broad range of thought-provoking and practical contributions that situate incivility within the current sociopolitical landscape of education. It also offers interventions to support civility and reduce harm within P-12 schools and districts. The volume is divided into three parts: considering the role of leaders and preparation programs in fostering civility; vulnerability, marginalization, and incivility; and incivility in context. Each chapter focuses on a central thesis related to incivility in P-12 educational contexts and includes key points and extension activities to guide leadership development and practice. This volume is for faculty and scholars of educational leadership as well as for current and aspiring leaders who are interested in cultivating educational spaces that are welcoming, affirming, healing, and connective.
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
