In the past few years, global societies, especially in Asia, experienced unprecedented changes in all aspects under the threat of the Covid pandemic. Schools are at the forefront of responding to territory-wide learning disruptions and socio-economic challenges. School leaders must keep abreast in responding to these challenges effectively. For example, during these globally challenging times, school leaders and teachers have generated numerous creative and new educational initiatives to curb the learning disturbances across early childhood to tertiary education. With the implementation of digital learning and virtual classes, the teaching community has embarked on a new journey in professional development in teaching and learning. Self-regulated learning has been promoted and home-school-community collaboration has been advocated to enhance student positive engagement and wellness. Many teacher-led curricula reforms and digital leadership practices were launched.
Against this backdrop, we are calling for manuscript submission to a Special Issue titled “Educational leadership and teacher professional development in Asia from the Pandemic to Post-pandemic times” with the following objectives:
1) To provide a platform for intellectual dialogues, professional exchange, and development across Asia
2) To shed insight into innovative practices in educational leadership and teacher professional development
3) To affirm teachers’ roles in educational leadership in changing times
4) To serve as a valuable reference for academic and professional studies in educational leadership
5) To generate scholarships in educational leadership studies by consolidating and affirming the valuable experiences, responses, and initiatives in education in Asia
We appreciate paper submissions regarding the following:
1) Theoretical discussion on the key factors affecting educational leadership effectiveness in critical times
2) Empirical studies on curriculum and instructional leadership, management and administration with reference to the Asian educational contexts
3) Cutting-edge research for addressing student wellness and/or teacher professional development
4) Practitioners’ perspectives on developing sustainable school development
Interested authors, please submit an abstract of not more than 200 words to the editor of this Special Issue, Professor Celeste Y.M. Yuen at yuetmuiyuen@cuhk.edu.hk
for consideration by March 2024. For further information, please contact Dr. Dongpin Hu Peter at dphu@cuhk.edu.hk; telephone: (852) 3943 0334.