PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Eugenie A. Samier is Reader in the School of Education at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland. Peter Milley is Assistant Professor of Leadership, Evaluation, Curriculum, and Policy and Senior Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Educational and Community Services at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Malign performance metrics, soul-crushing audit systems, and wannabe Machiavellians beware, International Perspectives on Maladministration in Education deftly exposes the dark underbelly of educational managementã culture in the neoliberal era. These superb critical essays do more than expose the entrenched systems that produce toxic administration, they help us imagine alternative forms of institutional life based on democratic values, practices, and shared governance. ã -Alexander J. Means, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Psychological Foundations of Education, State University of New York, College at Buffalo, USA This book takes a measured, thoughtful and unrelenting look at the forces at play in contemporary education, interrogates practices of maladministration, and calls for a more humane organization that will release rather than stifle human potential. -Janice Wallace, Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta, Canadaã
