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Professor Andy Hargreaves is one of the most original and highly cited thinkers in the field of education, worldwide. He has invented or co-invented several concepts in the field of education and social science, including organizational reculturing, contrived collegiality, emotional geographies, teaching as an emotional practice, sustainable leadership, the fourth way of educational change, professional capital, leading from the middle, and conflicting intersectionality of identities.
Andy Hargreaves holds professorial positions at the University of Ottawa in Canada and Boston College in the US. He is an elected member of the US National Academy of Education. Andy is the former President of the International Congress of School Effectiveness and Improvement (2018-2020). He is former Adviser in Education to the Premier of Ontario (2015-2018) and now an educational adviser to the First Minister of Scotland and the Minister of Education in New Brunswick, Canada. Andy is creator, co-founder and president of the ARC Education Collaboratory, which brings together Ministers and professional leaders from multiple countries to advance the interests of broad excellence, equity, well-being, inclusion, democracy, and human rights in education. Andy has published almost 40 books and has 10 Outstanding Book Awards. He has been honoured in Canada, the US, and the UK for services to public education and educational research. In 2015, Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. Andy holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and The University of Greater Manchester in the UK – the nearest to his hometown. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Professor Hargreaves is an outstanding keynote speaker and workshop leader and has delivered invited addresses in more than 50 countries, 47 US states, and all Australian and Canadian states and provinces. His most recent books are The Making of an Educator (2025) The Age of Identity: Who Do Our Kids Think They Are... and How Can We Help Them Belong? (with Dennis Shirley, 2024), and Leadership from the Middle, Andy is passionately concerned about the future of the teaching profession. In 2023, he was one of six experts commissioned by the UN and the International Labor Organization to inform their high-level panel on the Future of the Teaching Profession. His advocacy for teachers to have opportunities to enjoy and be engaged in more innovation is based on his recent LEGO Foundation funded initiative to build a national teacher-led network of school innovation, and on his lifework commitment to teacher collaboration and professionalism. He is currently writing a completely new second edition of his classic 1994 book, Changing Teachers, Changing Times that remains one of the most cited books on teaching by a living author. |
“Doing something different to try and make a difference together is what deeper collaborative professionalism is all about.”