Heffron, John M. and Minoru Koide. "Improving Higher Education Models Through International Comparative Analysis." Improving Higher Education Models Through International Comparative Analysis, 271-291. Edited by Valerie A. Storey and Thomas E. Beeman. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2023.
Heffron, John M. "Social Capital as Mentoring: a New Paradigm in Action." The Wiley Handbook of Mentoring: Paradigms, Practices, Programs, and Possibilities, 29-73. Edited by Beverly J. Irby. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2020.
Heffron, John M. “The North American Sphere of Influence: From Sea to Shining Sea.” In The Pacific Basin: An Introduction, 46-55. Edited by Shane J. Barter and Michael Weiner. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Heffron, John M. “The Transnational Context of Schooling.” Educational Leaders without Borders: Rising to Global Challenges to Educate All, 167-192. Edited by Rosemary Papa and Fenwick W. English. New York: Springer, 2016.
Ascher, William, Garry Brewer, Shabbir Cheema, and John M. Heffron. The Evolution of Development Thinking: Governance, Economics, Assistance, and Security. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Ascher, William, and John M. Heffron. “Rethinking Culture and Development: Patterns of Change and Persistence.” Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development, 1-24. Edited by John M. Heffron and William Ascher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Heffron, John M. “'Old Times There are Not Forgotten’ Southern Traditionalism and American National Development.” Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development, 44-66. Edited by John M. Heffron and William Ascher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Ascher, William, and John M. Heffron. “Conclusions: Intertwining Cultural Adaptation and Economic Development.” Cultural Change and Persistence: New Perspectives on Development, 233-244. Edited by John M. Heffron and William Ascher. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Rondinelli, Dennis A., and John M. Heffron. “Leadership for development: An Introduction.” Leadership for Development: What Globalization Demands of Leaders Fighting for Change, 1-26. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2009.
Heffron, John M. “Leadership for a ‘Decade of Development’: John F. Kennedy and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.” Leadership for Development: What Globalization Demands of Leaders Fighting for Change, 49-80. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2009.
Rondinelli, Dennis A., and John M. Heffron. “Globalization, Leadership, and Development: Emerging Patterns and Challenges” Leadership for Development: What Globalization Demands of Leaders Fighting for Change, 267-292. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2009.
Rondinelli, Dennis A., and John M. Heffron. “Adjusting to Globalization: Change and Transformation in Asia.” Globalization and Change in Asia, 1-14. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinell. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Heffron, John M. “Global Crossroads: A Shared History of Globalization in the Asia Pacific Region.” Globalization and Change in Asia, 15-38. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Rondinelli, Dennis A., and John M. Heffron. “Sustaining Progress in a Globalizing society: Lessons from Asia.” Globalization and Change in Asia, 227-246. Edited by John M. Heffron and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
Heffron, John M. “Beyond Community and Society: The Externalities of Social Capital Building.” Social Capital As a Policy Resource, 251-268. Edited by John D. Montgomery and Alex Inkeles. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.
Heffron, John M. “Nation-Building for a Venerable South: Moral and Practical Uplift in the New Agricultural Education, 1900 1920.” Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and its Limits, 43-76. Edited by Wayne J. Urban. New York: Garland Publishing, 1999.
Heffron, John M. “The Lincoln School of Teachers College: Elitism and Educational Democracy.” Schools of Tomorrow, Schools of Today: What Happened to Progressive Education. Edited by Susan F. Semel and Alan R. Sadovnik. New York: P. Lang, 1999.
Heffron, John M. “Defining Values.” Values in Education: Social Capital Formation in Asia and the Pacific, 3-28. Edited by John D. Montgomery. Hollis, NH: Hollis Pub. Co., 1997.
Heffron, John M. “Soka Education as a Theory of Leadership: Implications for the Preparation, Practice, and for the Re-structuration of the Modern Principalship.” Management in Education 32, no. 3 (June 2018): 102-8.
Heffron, John M. “‘To Form a More Perfect Union’: The Moral Example of Southern Baptist Thought and Education, 1890-1920.” Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation 8, no. 2 (Summer 1998): 179–204.
Heffron, John M. “Toward a Cybernetic Pedagogy: The Cognitive Revolution and the Classroom, 1948-Present.” Educational Theory 45, no. 4 (December 1995): 497–518.