ICSEI Voices
ICSEI Dialogic 2026: Call For Submissions
The ICSEI Dialogic is a multi-modal conversation which brings together and amplifies a range of perspectives, contexts, voices, and modes of influence. This is with the aim of documenting, enabling, promoting, pursuing, inspiring, and challenging dialogue, and engagement in sustained collaboration, conversation, and action that could result from this.
The ICSEI Dialogic, in collaboration with the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Network, is now accepting submissions for its 2026 edition. We welcome contributions from educators, researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners to contribute to the theme:
Early Childhood Education and Care: Exploring the potential for promoting children’s lifelong learning, well-being, and sense of belonging.
Guiding questions include:
- How can ECEC pedagogy support lifelong learning and well-being?
- What fosters a sense of belonging in ECEC settings?
- How can leadership and policy ensure equitable access to high-quality ECEC?
- What does high-quality ECEC look like in times of crisis?
Submissions may be written (750–1000 words), audio, video, or visual, and can be in any language.
Submission deadline: 15 October 2025
Send to: [email protected]
Notification of acceptance: 31 October 2025
Selected contributions will be published in the Dialogic and featured during the ICSEI Congress in Doha, Qatar in January 2026.
ECEC Network: Persille Schwartz, Kristina Westlund
ICSEI Dialogic Team (Communications and Knowledge Sharing Standing Committee): Paul Campbell, Joelle Rodway, Trista Hollweck
2025: ICSEI Dialogic: Culture, Race, and Intersectionality: Assets and Challenges for Leading Educational Effectiveness and Improvement
Developed in partnership with the Culture, Race, and Intersectionality (CRI) Network, this issue examines the impact of culture, race, and intersectionality on educational leadership and
2024: ICSEI Dialogic: The role, value and use of collaborative research to promote educational equity and improvement in the context of crisis
Developed in partnership with the ICSEI Crisis Response in Education Network (CREN), this issue examines he role, value and use of collaborative research to promote
2023: ICSEI Dialogic: Problematising the Relationship between Schools, Families, and Communities
Focusing on the complex relationships between schools, families, and communities, this issue developed in partnership with the Practitioners, Policymakers, and Politicians (3P) network, highlights the
2022: ICSEI Dialogic: Back to the Future? Problems and Possibilities for Educational Equity, Quality, and Sustainability
This issue delves into the challenges and opportunities for educational equity, quality, and sustainability, reflecting on the theme of the 2022 ICSEI Congress and offering
2021: ICSEI Dialogic: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges
2021: ICSEI Dialogic: Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges This inaugural issue explores the importance of crossing boundaries and building bridges in education, featuring short viewpoint
Monograph Issue 10: Awareness-Based Systems Leadership:
Awareness-Based Systems Leadership: Co-Creating Ecosystems for School and Network Improvement in Australia. Dr. Richard OwensDirector Woodleigh InstituteHead of Teaching and LearningWoodleigh School
Monograph Issue 9: Leadership of Place: Transforming Schools Into Places of Belonging
Leadership of Place: Transforming Schools Into Places of Belonging Kathryn RileyUCL, Institute of Education
Monograph Issue 8: Exceptional Effectiveness: Taking a Comparative Perspective on Educational Performance
Exceptional Effectiveness: Taking a Comparative Perspective on Educational Performance Alma HarrisEducational Leadership, University of Malaya[/hide] Andy HargreavesBoston College
Monograph Issue 7: Student Voice: A Catalyst for Educational Change
Student Voice: A Catalyst for Educational Change Dennis ShirleyProfessor, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
Monograph Issue 6: How Do We Create and Exchange Knowledge for Systemic Change?
Issue 6 How Do We Create and Exchange Knowledge for Systemic Change? Louise StollProfessor of Professional Learning,London Centre for Leadership in Learning, UCL Institute of
Monograph Issue 5: Local Innovation and Autonomy in Contexts of Standardization and Accountability
Local Innovation and Autonomy in Contexts of Standardization and Accountability Stephen AndersonUniversity of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Monograph Issue 4: Teacher Effectiveness Research and Professional Learning: What if?
Teacher Effectiveness Research and Professional Learning: What if? Alma HarrisInstitute of Educational LeadershipUniversity of Malaya, Malaysia
Monograph Issue 3: A case of rethinking roles and relationships
From with – to between – and beyond – school improvement: A case of rethinking roles and relationships Christopher ChapmanUniversity of Glasgow
Monograph Issue 2: Educational Effectiveness Research – What If…?
Educational Effectiveness Research – What If…? Paul ClarkeSt. Mary’s University College, London, England Professor David ReynoldsUniversity of Southampton, England
Monograph Issue 1: The Practice of School Instructional Improvement: Improvement, (Infra)-structure & Instruction
Monograph Issue 1: The Practice of School Instructional Improvement: Improvement, (Infra)-structure & Instruction James P. SpillaneNorthwestern University, Chicago, USA