Call for Chapters | Cocktail School Leadership Mix: Strategic Approach to Crisis and Change

The book is part of the Scholarly Collection Series and seeks to include quality works which provide new insights into adaptive, equitable, and digitally responsive leadership.

EDITORS

Prof SS Khumalo , Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Management, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

Disruptive events taking place in the global arena are shocking and unprecedented. Never has the world been hit by disruptions one after the other of such lethal and devastating nature. These occurrences bear serious implications for the education systems of the world (Ali, Bhuiyan, Zulkifli, & Hassan 2022; Jones, Abebe, Emirie, Gebeyehu, Gezahegne, Tilahun, & Vintges, 2022). Governments and education authorities are forced to revise their budgets, and academic planning is also affected. These disruptions manifest in different forms and shapes around the globe. The recent COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that governments were caught napping. During these trying times, lives were lost, schools were forced into prolonged closures, the curriculum was trimmed, a huge number of students dropped out of the schools (Jones, Abebe, Emirie, Gebeyehu, Gezahegne, Tilahun & Vintages, 2022). The worst of these high-stakes disruptions in the form of geopolitics include continuing wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, the DRC and the M23 rebels, and the recent India-Pakistan conflict (UNICEF,2024; Ojo, 2025).

The primary purpose of this edited book is to provide an exploration of the various leadership approaches for navigating these disruptive times. Covey (1989) argues that the rise or fall of any organization rests squarely on the shoulders of its leadership. Therefore, despite the unpreparedness of the governments, in particular education authorities, school leadership is duty-bound, of course, supported by education authorities, to ensure that the academic agenda is delivered. It is therefore within this context that the concept, cocktail leadership becomes crucial, and this project is intended to draw from a blend of approaches that intend to address a growing demand for timely, research-informed insights into adaptive, sustainable, and responsive leadership. The book will appeal to a broad and diverse audience engaged in education leadership and reform. Key targeted reader groups include educational leaders and administrators, policymakers, scholars and researchers in education, teacher leaders, and graduate students in educational leadership and public policy. Themes include, but are not limited to:

• Implications of global disruptions in the schooling ecosystem
• Inadequacies of traditional leadership paradigms in the times of schooling disruptions/Failing leadership paradigms
• Towards differentiated school leadership approaches
• Digital technologies and school leadership: Lessons learnt from disruptions
• Building agile, future-ready schools
• Global Disruptions and the Schooling Ecosystem
• Multi-layered school leadership in complex schooling situations
• Wartime leadership: A craft for leading during ceasefire
• Social justice leadership in a traumatizing schooling context
• Disrupting the disruptions through digital technologies
• Leadership for sustainability

IMPORTANT DATES

Chapter abstract submission: 30 July 2025
Full chapter submission: 30 November 2025
Book publication: February 2026

IMPORTANT GUIDELINES & NOTES

1. The chapters (abstracts/full-texts) should be submitted to the volume editor at [email protected].
2. A chapter should NOT exceed 10% similarity content from all sources, including referenced works.
3. The contributing authors need to adhere to our Policy on the use of generative AI tools and technologies in academic writing .
4. The abstracts/full texts will be shared with the volume editor, and the authors will directly be contacted by the volume editor with an acceptance/rejection/amendment decision.
5. There is no chapter submission/processing or publishing charge. The book accepts chapters free of any APC/fee.
6. A chapter should be APA 7th Edition styled and submitted in MS Docx format and must include authors’ affiliation details, failing which the chapters will not be considered for review. A chapter should ideally be of 5,000 to 10,000 words including references with Times New Roman Font Size 12 with single line spacing & page margins of 1″ (Top, Bottom, Left, Right).
7. Unoriginal or previously published works will not be processed for review.
8. All chapters need to have complete affiliation details.
9. All chapters will be reviewed by chapter reviewers (peer-reviewers) before acceptance by the book editor. The chapters will be reviewed using a double-blind peer review system.
10. The editorial (editor’s) decision of accepting or rejecting a chapter shall be final. The book editor has all the editorial freedoms pertaining to the content quality of the book, and the publisher doesn’t interfere in any editorial decision taken by the editor pertaining to the acceptance/rejection of any work for the book.
11. The authors submitting chapters need to adhere to our policies on plagiarism, scholarly misconduct, and publication ethics. The copyright respecting the accepted chapters will remain with the authors, with the publications’ rights being with the CSMFL Publications.
12. The authors of the accepted & published chapters retain their right to use their work for scholarly and teaching purposes, subject to the conditions and limitations as described in Authors’ Rights for Content Reuse .

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