CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
*Deadline 30 November 2008*

Volume 11 in the International Perspectives on Education and Society Series published by Emerald Publishing

"EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP: GLOBAL CONTEXTS AND INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS"

Edited by
Alexander W. Wiseman (Lehigh University)
Iveta Silova (Lehigh University)

This volume of the International Perspectives on Education and Society series investigates the changing face of educational leadership from comparative and international perspectives. Various definitions of leadership have transformed the way that educators around the world think about teaching, administration, and policy in recent years. Yet, we continue to know so little about how educational leadership works in real world situations in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, much of the research and literature on educational leadership focuses on only a handful of countries and cultures even though it is generally agreed that leadership is differently contextualized by society, culture, and organizational environment. Empirical evidence has shown how educational leaders work in and with schools as agents of change in classrooms, departments or programs, and schools or systems as a whole. These leaders generally participate in and make both intuitive as well as data-driven decisions in classrooms and schools. But there is still relatively little research and scholarship placing educational leadership in a global context or comparing it internationally. The theme of this volume leads us to two main questions: What is the difference between these theoretical definitions of leadership and what works in the real world? And, more importantly, how are both ideas about and evidence of leadership either the same or different across different national and cultural contexts?

We invite chapter proposals that address any number of a wide variety of topics related to the nature, dynamics, and evidence of educational leadership around the world. Chapters may address educational leadership at any level of schooling or administration ranging from primary to higher education to national and international governance levels. Topics should be international or comparative in scope and could include, but are not limited to, international differences in the meaning of educational leadership, leadership theory, how leaders affect organizational effectiveness, measures of leadership, the role of policy in educational governance, the domain of educational leadership as a field, culturally contextualized meanings of educational leadership and the governance of school systems across nations. The intent is to have a combination of state-of-the-field reviews, theory-driven syntheses of current scholarship, reports of new empirical research, and critical discussions of major topics around the volume's theme.

Chapter proposals should be 4-5 page summaries of the proposed chapter and deal explicitly with as many of the following as are applicable, preferably in this order: (1) objectives or purposes; (2) perspectives or theoretical framework; (3) methods, techniques, or modes of inquiry; (4) data sources or evidence (if applicable); (5) results, conclusions, or point of view; and (6) the significance or relevance of this chapter to the volume's overall theme. Authors of successful proposals will be asked to provide a complete chapter manuscript for external review by March 1, 2009. Final accepted chapter manuscripts are due August 1, 2009. All proposals/manuscripts are peer-reviewed.

Please contact Alex Wiseman (aww207@lehigh.edu) with chapter proposals written in English by 30 November 2008.