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 now calling for chapter proposals. This international handbook is edited by Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber, Chair of Excellence Leadership, Quality Management and Innovation, Department of Educational Research, Linz School of Education, Johannes Kepler University Linz and Head of Leadership University of Teacher Education Schwyz, Switzerland. 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: Trends of new and good governance

Section 3: Policy development

Section 4: Policy implementation

Section 5: Data use, standardization, and best practices

Section 6: Governance as analytic perspective

Section 7: National, international and transnational perspectives on governance

Section 8: Mapping of empirical research (Perspectives on content, geographic, methods)

Section 9: Limitations, boundaries and illusion of governance, policy rhetoric and reality

Part II Leadership, Administration and Management

Section 10: Theories of leadership, administration, and management

Section 11: Methodological implications for research of leadership, administration, and management

Section 12: Research methods in leadership research

Section 13: Mapping of empirical research

Section 14: Marketing and attracting of educational leaders

Section 15: Selection of leadership, administration, and management

Section 16: Support of leadership, administration, and management

Section 17: Support structures within the organization

Section 18: Accountability and autonomy

Section 19: Professional Development programs (preparation, induction, continuing professional development)

Section 20: Mentoring

Section 21: Coaching

Section 22: Working conditions, salaries

Section 23: Human resource management: recruitment, selection, retention, assessment, staff professional development and motivation

Section 24: Quality management: setting school vision, mission and strategies, school effectiveness evaluation and assessment, competence building, building professional learning community, social impact

Section 25: Community outreach and networking

Section 26: Career cycles

Section 27: Health and motivation

Section 28: Values

Section 29: Diversity, inclusion and the right to education for all

Section 30: Professional judgement

Section 31: Simulation in leadership professional development

Section 32: Leadership and culture

Submission Procedure and Important Dates

The submission procedure includes two steps.

• Step 1 Submitting the chapter proposal:

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit the chapter proposals via https://www.unipark.de/uc/IH-GLAME/

• Step 2 Submitting the full paper manuscript:

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

Recap of the important dates

1. Deadline of chapter idea submissions (only ideas and short description, 500 words) January 30, 2024,
2. Internal check of proposals, February 12, 2024
3. Review by section editors, March 11, 2024
4. Further invitation of colleagues for submissions by section editor and/or editorial board: March 11, 2024
5. Notification of chapter proposal acceptance paper idea acceptance: March 25, 2024
6. Submission of the first complete full paper manuscript (draft): July 15, 2024
7. First review and comments by the section editor and/or editorial board: August 15, 2024
8. Deadline of the final full paper manuscript: November 30, 2024
9. Final Review from the section editor and/or editorial board: January 15, 2025
10. Final editing and proofing by publisher
11. Publication: March 2025

Call for Proposals

Please click here for the book flyer

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

Prof. Dr. Stephan Huber
Chair of Excellence Leadership, Quality Management and Innovation
Department of Educational Research, Linz School of Education
Johannes Kepler University Linz

Schwyz University of Teacher Education
huber-office@bildungsmanagement.net