Call for Ideas and Proposals: International Handbook for Governance, Leadership, Administration, and Management in Education

The International Handbook for Governance, Leadership, Administration, and Management in Education (Springer) is calling for chapter proposals. This international handbook is edited by Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber, Head of Research Group Development of Persons, Organisations and Systems, Leibniz Institute IPN Kiel/Berlin and Chair of Excellence Leadership, Quality Management and Innovation, Department of Educational Research, Linz School of Education, Johannes Kepler University Linz. The book will be published by Springer.

Aims and Scope
This handbook aims to bring together rigorously reviewed top-quality contributions by distinguished authors from research, policy and practice from around the world. It provides a comprehensive up-to-date compilation of important issues of and around educational governance, leadership, administration, and management. In the tradition of the two previous International Handbooks of Educational Leadership (Leithwood, Chapman, Corson, Hallinger, & Hart, 1996; Leithwood & Hallinger, 2002), this handbook is theory-oriented and methodology-based and also seeks to cover research and practice.

General Information for Authors
The International Handbook for Governance, Leadership, Administration, and Management in Education uses an electronic submission and review process. Authors are strongly advised to carefully read the Aims and Scope of the handbook. Proposals that clearly do not meet standards for scholarship or are not consistent with the Aims & Scope will not be sent out for review.

Authors will be required provide personal information. Authors shall also clearly indicate which section(s) they wish to author. All the chapter proposals should be approximately 500 words in length, following the style of the 7th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA). Authors should strictly review the proposals to avoid plagiarism and self-plagiarism before the submission. All the proposals will be screened, and the selected authors will be contacted by the editorial board to submit a full chapter manuscript.

Book structure

Part I. Governance

Section 1: Theories and models of governance
Section 2. Policy development
Section 3: Policy implementation
Section 4: Data use, standardization, and best practices
Section 5: Governance as analytic perspective
Section 6: National, international and transnational perspectives on governance
Section 7: Mapping of empirical research (Perspectives on content, geographic, methods)
Section 8: Limitations, boundaries and illusion of governance, policy rhetoric and reality

Part II Leadership, Administration and Management

Section 9: Leadership Theories
Section 10: Leadership approaches and school improvement
Section 11: Methodological implications for research of leadership, administration, and management
Section 12: Research methods in leadership research
Section 13: Marketing and attracting of educational leaders
Section 14: Selection of leadership, administration, and management
Section 15: Support structures within the organization
Section 16: Accountability and autonomy
Section 17: Professional Development programs (preparation, induction, continuing professional development)
Section 18: Mentoring
Section 19: Working conditions, salaries
Section 20: Human resource management
Section 21: Quality management
Section 22: Community outreach and networking
Section 23: Career cycles
Section 24: Values
Section 25: Diversity, Inclusion and the Right to Education for All
Section 26: Artificial Intelligence and digitality in the Leadership and Management of Schools
Section 27: Leadership and culture
Section 28: Learning organisation (relationship between organisation and leadership)
Section 29: Health and motivation
Section 30: Country reports from Northern and Eastern Europe
Section 31: Country Reports from West- and South-Europe
Section 32: Country Reports from Asia & Oceania

Submission Procedure

The submission procedure includes two steps.

• Step 1 Submitting the chapter proposal (500 word)
• Step 2 Submitting the full paper manuscript (7,000 – 8,000 words including references)

Authors of accepted proposals will be sent chapter guidelines to compose the first complete manuscript. All the submitted chapters will go through a review process. The editor-in-chief and section editors will make the final decisions regarding the final acceptance of the chapters.

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For any inquiries about this handbook, please contact the editor-in-chief:

Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber
Head of Research Group Development of Persons, Organisations and Systems
Leibniz Institute IPN Kiel/Berlin

Chair of Excellence Leadership, Quality Management and Innovation
Department of Educational Research, Linz School of Education, Johannes Kepler University Linz

huber-office@bildungsmanagement.net