Call for Book Chapters | Multilingual and Multicultural Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities for Early Childhood Education Leaders

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Call for Book Chapters | Multilingual and Multicultural Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities for Early Childhood Education Leaders

Scientia Global Editions: CLAEC e-Books

Scientia International Press, in partnership with Editora CLAEC (Centro Latino-Americano de Estudos em Cultura), announces the Call for Chapters for the collective volume:

Multilingual and Multicultural Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities for Early Childhood Education Leaders

This book is part of the Scientia Global Editions: CLAEC e-Books collection and invites scholarly contributions on multilingualism, multiculturalism, inclusion and leadership in early childhood education.

About the Book

Early childhood education stands at a defining crossroads. Across the globe, the classrooms where children take their first steps as learners are becoming increasingly multilingual and multicultural, shaped by migration, globalisation, the revitalisation of indigenous languages and the digital interconnectedness of 21st-century societies.

Yet the leadership frameworks, pedagogical models and institutional policies that govern these spaces have not always kept pace with this reality.

This edited volume brings together original scholarly contributions that examine, from diverse international perspectives, the challenges and opportunities that linguistic and cultural diversity presents for early childhood education leaders.

The book is grounded in the conviction that inclusive leadership in early childhood education is not a peripheral concern, but a foundational one. The ways in which school leaders, curriculum designers, policymakers and practitioners respond to multilingualism and multiculturalism in early childhood settings shape not only children’s educational trajectories, but also the social fabric of communities and nations.

Drawing on applied linguistics, inclusive education, postcolonial theory, developmental psychology and comparative education, the volume explores themes such as translanguaging and multilingual pedagogy, decolonising early childhood curricula, digital literacy and 21st-century skills in diverse classrooms, disability-inclusive and gender-responsive practices, family and community engagement in multicultural early childhood education, and leadership development for culturally sustaining schools.

The volume foregrounds perspectives from underrepresented regions, including Small Island Developing States, the Global South and postcolonial multilingual societies, challenging the dominance of Western and monolingual frameworks in early childhood education research and practice.

Thematic Axes (Non-Exhaustive)

Multilingual and multicultural classrooms
Early childhood education leadership
Translanguaging and multilingual pedagogy
Inclusive education and culturally sustaining schools
Decolonising early childhood curricula
Digital literacy and 21st-century skills
Disability-inclusive and gender-responsive practices
Family and community engagement
Global South and postcolonial perspectives
Small Island Developing States and multilingual societies
Applied linguistics and early childhood education

Editor

Dr. Deepa Sookara-Ramchurn (Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius)

Who Can Submit

Authors with a minimum academic degree of Master’s, with or without institutional affiliation
Chapters may include co-authorship with PhD candidates, Master’s students or undergraduate students, provided at least one author holds a Master’s degree
Maximum of five authors per chapter

Languages and Multilingual Publication

Submissions accepted in English
All accepted chapters will be published in bilingual English-Portuguese format
Translation into Portuguese will be carried out with the support of artificial intelligence and editorial review, at no additional cost to the authors
Each chapter receives an individual DOI
The e-book will receive an ISBN registered in Brazil

Publication Model and Timeline

Continuous publication flow
Approved chapters may be published on the OMP platform within up to 15 business days after publication fee payment and submission of the final version
At the end of the submission period, all approved chapters will be gathered into the final consolidated version of the e-book
The complete consolidated volume will be published by December 31, 2026

Publication Fees (per approved chapter)

Institutions in Brazil: R$ 400.00
Institutions outside Brazil: €250.00

Key Dates and Information

📅 Submission deadline: November 14, 2026
📘 Open-access, bilingual publication
📄 License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
📚 Final consolidated e-book: by December 31, 2026