CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Reimagining Education through Entrepreneurship: An International Showcase of Leadership and Collaboration to Educate for a Sustainable Future

Edited by: Professor Lene Foss, Professor Colette Henry
& Dr. Wai Yi Feng
Abstracts by 30th September 2023

Quality educational leadership has been shown to be a key factor in academic organizational effectiveness, influencing universities’ entrepreneurial and innovative capability (HEInnovate.eu; Klofsten et al, 2019; Stolze and Sailer, 2021). At the primary and secondary levels, school leadership ranks second behind teaching as a school-related factor affecting student learning (Leithwood et al., 2010). School leaders are under more scrutiny than ever before to make measurable changes in the lives and academic achievement of their students (Hargreaves & Fink, 2006).

Recently, the term “responsible leadership” has become important in education as students face a turbulent world where their live experience is punctuated by social and political unrest, mass movement of displaced people, climate change, financial instability, unemployment, mass layoffs, downsizings, environmental problems, corporate scandals, and unethical conduct in public office (Browne & Foss, 2022). Accordingly, a responsible leader’s core task is to develop relationships with stakeholder groups that “raise one another to higher levels of motivation and commitment for achieving sustainable value creation and social change” (Pless, 2007:438). In the educational context, such stakeholders include parents, communities, businesses, and organizations, and developing strong relationships with such stakeholders often depend upon entrepreneurial thinking and action. While the academic literature covers a range of leadership aspects in different educational environments, little by way of concerted academic attention has been paid to exploring and promoting responsible leadership across the educational spectrum and highlighting the role of entrepreneurship in this process.

Reflecting our proposed structure for the book, we invite international country-based teaching cases that address on one of the following themes:

• entrepreneurship in educational leadership, organization and management in schools and school systems
• entrepreneurship in the curriculum (and in curriculum development and curriculum enrichment);
• entrepreneurship in collaboration between educational institutions, community, business, and stakeholders

We seek well written and novel teaching cases that demonstrate the different embodiments of entrepreneurship for different phases of education (primary, secondary, and tertiary). We will prioritise those teaching cases that demonstrate how entrepreneurship contributes to educating young people for a sustainable future. Accordingly, we seek cases cut across not just different countries, contexts, and educational levels, but also different academic disciplines, reflecting the spread of both the entrepreneurship and sustainability agendas.