Andy Hargreaves
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The Brennan family, who have endowed this professorship, have renamed it after their son who died on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Its mission is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. Andy Hargreaves' teaching and research at Boston College concentrates on educational change, performing beyond expectations, sustainable leadership and the emotions of teaching.
Professor Hargreaves qualified for and went on to teach primary school before studying for and completing his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology at the University of Leeds in England. He lectured in a number of English universities including Oxford until in 1987 he moved to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Canada, where he co-founded and directed the International Center for Educational Change. From 2000-2002, he was also Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of Nottingham in England.
Professor Hargreaves has authored or edited more than 25 books which have been translated into a dozen languages. Andy Hargreaves' book Teaching In The Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity, is published by Teachers' College Press and Open University Press and has received the Choice Outstanding Book Award from the American Libraries Association for Teaching and the American Educational Research Association Division B Outstanding Book Award. Hargreaves' current research is funded by the UK Specialist and Academies Trust and the National College for School Leadership and is concerned with organizations that perform beyond expectations in education, sport, business and health.
Andy now lives close to Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Pauline who is also an educator. Their children, Stuart and Lucy, work in the fields of law and international development.
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. The Brennan family, who have endowed this professorship, have renamed it after their son who died on the 104th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Its mission is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. Andy Hargreaves' teaching and research at Boston College concentrates on educational change, performing beyond expectations, sustainable leadership and the emotions of teaching.
Professor Hargreaves qualified for and went on to teach primary school before studying for and completing his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology at the University of Leeds in England. He lectured in a number of English universities including Oxford until in 1987 he moved to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Canada, where he co-founded and directed the International Center for Educational Change. From 2000-2002, he was also Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of Nottingham in England.
Professor Hargreaves has authored or edited more than 25 books which have been translated into a dozen languages. Andy Hargreaves' book Teaching In The Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity, is published by Teachers' College Press and Open University Press and has received the Choice Outstanding Book Award from the American Libraries Association for Teaching and the American Educational Research Association Division B Outstanding Book Award. Hargreaves' current research is funded by the UK Specialist and Academies Trust and the National College for School Leadership and is concerned with organizations that perform beyond expectations in education, sport, business and health.
Andy now lives close to Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Pauline who is also an educator. Their children, Stuart and Lucy, work in the fields of law and international development.
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