NEWS: Research Handbook on Educator Wellbeing and Resilience

Dear colleagues,

 

We hope this email finds all of you well.

 

Please, see attached a call for chapter proposals for the upcoming edited Research Handbook on Educator Wellbeing and Resilience (to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing, editors Kutsyuruba, B., Walker, K., & Cherkowski, S.).

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This handbook describes how wellbeing and resilience could be promoted for educators (early career educators, aspiring and practicing teachers, teacher leaders, and school leaders) in school settings. It aims to highlight research on programs, approaches, and strategies aimed at promoting educator wellbeing, enhancing teacher and school leader resilience, and encouraging flourishing in schools through attention to appreciative, strengths-based, positive approaches to teaching, learning, and leading in education. This volume will provide a repertoire of varied answers to how individuals and institutions can leverage what works well to instill in each community member a sense of their value and capacity to contribute to the wellbeing for all and create contexts of flourishing.

 

We invite contributions in two streams:

 

  1. Descriptions of particular efforts, programs, initiatives, developments and/or innovations that are aimed at promoting wellbeing and resilience of educators in school settings.
  2. Conceptually or empirically based analyses of research on wellbeing, flourishing, thriving, resilience, appreciative inquiry, positive leadership, strengths, virtues, ethics, etc. in schools.

 

Potential authors are most welcome to interact with editors to explore possibilities beyond the two categories (above), to gauge potential fit for this book.

The anticipated chapters will be organized by the following focused sections (*tentative, subject to change and modification at the handbook compilation stage):

 

  1. Wellbeing and Resilience of Pre-Service Teachers
  2. Wellbeing and Resilience of Early Career Teachers
  3. Wellbeing and Resilience of Mid-Career Teachers
  4. Wellbeing and Resilience of Veteran Teachers
  5. Wellbeing and Resilience of Early Childhood Educators
  6. Wellbeing and Resilience of Teachers (General)
  7. Wellbeing and Resilience of School Leaders
  8. Wellbeing and Resilience in a School Organization

 

We welcome your abstract submissions before the deadline of January 15, 2025. Please, send the abstracts to ben.kutsyuruba@queensu.ca.

 

Have a wonderful weekend.

 

Best regards,

Ben, Keith, and Sabre