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Chapter 10
Confronting Academic Mobbing in Higher Education: Personal Accounts and Administrative Action
This term refers to the persons who watch as academic mobbing occurs, yet who choose to remain quiet while the bullying and revulsive attacks occur, but who are not one of the bullies nor the target but who are equally culpable due to the choices made to not correct bullying behaviors based upon the fear of becoming a target oneself.
Published in Chapter:
In the Midst of the Maelstrom: Struggling Through the Revulsions of Academic Mobbing While Maintaining One's Ethical Compass
Caroline M. Crawford (University of Houston – Clear Lake, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9485-7.ch010
Abstract
Academic mobbing's impact upon the target and the target's professional world can throw one's world off kilter to the point that the target has difficulty maintaining a semblance of psychological and cognitive balance. This story is one target's approach towards maintaining a semblance of balance within the midst of the horrors of academic mobbing and bullying attacks. This target's ethical compass and balance are maintained through the support and guidance of outstanding colleagues, yet in more personal moments the target's sense of psychological equilibrium and emotional stability are drawn from the lifetime accumulation of quotations, lyrics, and poems that articulate one's ethical compass and steadfast psychological center.
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