Joseph Blase is a professor of educational administration at the University of Georgia. Since receiving his Ph.D. in 1980 from Syracuse University, his research has focused on school reform, transformational leadership, the micropolitics of education, principal-teacher relationships, and the work lives of teachers. His work concentrating on school-level micropolitics received the 1988 Davis Memorial Award given by the University Council for Educational Administration, and his coauthored article published in the Journal of Educational Administration won the W. G. Walker 2000 Award for Excellence. In 1999 he was recognized as an elite scholar, one of the 50 Most Productive and Influential Scholars of Educational Administration in the world. Blase's books include The Politics of Life in Schools: Power, Conflict, and Cooperation (winner of the 1994 Critic's Choice Award sponsored by the American Education Studies Association), Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (1994, 2000, 2008); The Micropolitics of Educational Leadership (1995), Empowering Teachers (1994, 2000), Democratic Principals in Action (1995), The Fire Is Back (1997), Handbook of Instructional Leadership (1998, 2004), Breaking the Silence (2003), and Teachers Bringing Out the Best in Teachers (2006). His recent research (coauthored with Jo Blase and Du Fengning, 2008), a national study of principal mistreatment of teachers, appeared in The Journal of Educational Administration. Professor Blase has published over 120 academic articles, chapters, and books.

Foreword - Don Saul, AASA American Superintendent of the Year
Foreword - Gary Anderson, Professor of Educational Administration
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
1. The Problem of Principal Mistreatment of Teachers
2. The Many Faces of Moderate Mistreatment: From Discounting Teachers to Offensive Personal Conduct
3. Escalating Mistreatment of Teachers: From Spying to Criticism
4. Severe Mistreatment of Teachers: From Lying to Destruction
5. The Effects of Principal Mistreatment of Teachers: Lasting Wounds and Damaged Schools
6. Worlds of Pain: The Undoing of Teachers
7. Overcoming the Problem of Principal Mistreatment of Teachers: What Can We Do?
Research Method and Procedures
References
Index