As an international field of scholarship and practice, educational administration is rich and varied yet, ‘under the rug’, the incompetent, negligent, disturbing, destructive, immoral, criminal, and evil administrative acts that sometimes take place in and through educational organisations are infrequently scrutinised by scholars of educational administration. These range from negligence and mistreatment of people to academic and professional dishonesty, from theft, fraud, embezzlement, conspiracy, and the abuse of power to the implementation of damaging policies and the fostering of toxic or corrupt practices and cultures. For a variety of reasons, some of which have fear and self-preservation at their core, scholars and practitioners who are aware of disturbing behaviours in education prefer to remain silent or to talk quietly in informal venues about them. As a result, maladministration in education remains a theoretically under-developed and under-researched topic. The purpose of this volume has been to develop a broad theoretical and critical foundation for understanding the phenomena of maladministration in educational organisations and systems internationally, including the examination of contemporary issues that shape harmful administrative and organisational behaviours.