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Journal Articles 

2025

• The Dark Side of Networks and the Implications for School Leadership. School Leadership & Management 45(1), 1-6.
• The Power of Play. Educational Leadership, 82(4). (with Gladys Ayson and Sajani Karunaweera)​​

2024

• Professional Learning and Development That Honors Students' Identities. The Learning Professional, 45(6), 42–45. (with Dennis Shirley)​​
• Engagement with Learning: Being Fully Present Rather Than Chronically Absent. Practical Literacy, 29(3), 6–9. (with Dennis Shirley)​

2022

• High School Change: A Reflective Essay on Three Decades of Frustration, Struggle and Progress Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 60 No. 3, pp. 245-261.

2021

• What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Taught Us About Teachers and Teaching. In Vaillancourt, T. (Ed) Children and Schools During Covid-19 and Beyond: Engagement and Connection Through Opportunity,Ottawa, Royal Society of Canada
• The Future of Learning Lies in Engagement. Educational Leadership. Vol 79, No 4.​

2020

•  Austerity and Inequality; or Prosperity for All?  Educational Policy Directions Beyond the Pandemic Educational Research for Policy and Practice, October 2020
• Professional Capital After the Pandemic: Revisiting and Revising Classic Understandings of Teachers' Work Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, 2020  (with Michael Fullan)
• Large-Scale Assessments and Their Effects: The Case of Mid-Stakes Tests in Ontario  J Educ Change 21, 393–420 2020.
• Class Matters: Socio-economic Inequality and Education Education Canada, October 2020
• The Sustainability and Non-Sustainability of Teachers’ and Leaders’ Wellbeing Teaching and Teacher Education, March 2020 (with Dennis Shirley and Shanee Washington)
• Leading From the Middle: Its Nature, Origins and Importance  Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Volume 5, Issue 1,          December 26th 2019

2019

• Leadership, Ethics, Inequality, & Identity  Principal Connections, Fall 2019, Series 23, Issue 1
• Teacher Collaboration: 30 Years of Research on its Nature, Forms, Limitations, and Effects Teachers and Teaching, Volume 25, 2019-Issue 5
• The 4 B's: How to Adapt to Other People's Practices and Make Them Stick  The Learning Professional, June 2019, Vol. 40, Number 3 (with Michael O'Connor)

2018

• ​​Well-being and Success EdCan NETWORK, Winter 2018 (with Dennis Shirley)
• What's Wrong with Well-being? Educational Leadership, Vol. 76 No. 2, pp.58-63 (with Dennis Shirley)
• Solidarity with Solidity: The Case for Collaborative Professionalism, Phi Delta Kappa, Vol. 100 Issue: 1, pp. 20-24 (with Michael O'Connor)
• Cultures of Collaboration: Their Origins and Opponents, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Vol. 2 Issue: 2, pp.74-85 (with Michael O’Connor)

2017

• Leading with Consistency, in Waite, D., & Bogotch, I. (Eds.) The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.  (with Rebecca Lowenhaupt)

2016

• Blooming Teachers, Royal Society of Arts Journal, Issue 1
• The Place for Professional Capital and Community, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, Vol. 1: 1.

2015

• Designing and Launching Rural School Improvement Networks: Aspirations and Actualities, Peabody Journal of Education, Volume 90, Issue 2, March 2015, pp. 306-321. (with Danette Parsley & Elizabeth Cox)
• The Top and Bottom of Leadership and Change, Phi Delta Kappan, November, pp.42-48 (with Mel Ainscow)
• Uplifting Leadership: The Higher Calling of Business, Sport and Education; Educational Leadership, February 2015, Vol. 72 Issue 5, pp. 42-47. (with Alan Boyle)
• Professional Capital as Accountability, Education Policy Analysis Archives. Volume 23, February 2015, pp.1-21 (with Michael Fullan & Santiago Rincon Gallardo)

2014

• Sustainable Educational Reform, The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, edited by McGaw, B., Peterson, P. &Baker, E., Elsevier.
• Large-Scale Reform in Literacy and Math: Rethinking Strategy in the Light of International Evidence; Journal of Reading Recovery, Fall, pp 27-35.

2012

• Singapore: The Fourth Way in Action?, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 11(1), 7-17.
• Education, Education reform and school change, Oxford Bibliographies Online (with Corrie Stone Johnson and Kristin Kew)
• School Leadership for Diversity, Encyclopaedia of Diversity in Education (pp. 1886-1891). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (with Allison Skerrett).

2010

• Sustainable Educational Reform, The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, edited by McGaw, B., Peterson, P. & Baker, E., Elsevier, Paris, France pp 289-294.
• Presentism, Individualism and Conservatism: the Legacy of Dan Lortie’s Schoolteacher, Curriculum Inquiry, Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 143-154.

2009

• A Decade of Educational Change, Journal of Educational Change, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 89-101, May.
• Pedagogical and Educational Change for Sustainable Knowledge Societies. In Cowen, R. & Kazamias, A. (Eds.) International Handbook of Comparative Education, Vol. 22, pp. 943-95
• The Persistence of Presentism. Teachers’ College Record, Volume 111 Number 11, p. 2505-2534. (with Dennis Shirley).

2008

• Student Diversity and Secondary School Change in a Context of Increasingly Standardized Reform (with Allison Skerrett), American Educational Research Journal, Dec; vol. 45: pp. 913 - 945.
• Change from Without, In Hargreaves, A.; Fullan, M.; Lieberman, A.; & Hopkins, D. (Eds.), The Second International Handbook of Educational Change, Dordrecht, Springer.
• Engaging Policy: Neither a Borrower nor a Lender be, European Training Foundation Yearbook
• The Fourth Way of Change, Educational Leadership, (October), Vol. 66 Issue 2, p56-61. (with Dennis Shirley)
• Beyond Standardization: Powerful New Principles for Improvement, Phi Delta Kappan, The Journal For Education, 90 (2) October, 135 - 143 (with Dennis Shirley)   
• Distributed Leadership: Democracy or Delivery?   Journal of Educational Administration, Vol. 46 No. 2, 229-240.    

2007

• Sustainable Leadership & Development in Education: Creating the Future, Conserving the Past. European Journal of Education, 42(2), 223- 233
• Five Flaws of Staff Development: and the future that beckons beyond them. Journal of Staff Development, Summer, Vol. 28 No.3.

2006

• Sustainable Leadership and Development in Education. Lifelong Learning in Europe, XI (4).
• Taking Sustainability from Theory to Practice.  Revue Suisse des Sciences de L’education.  28(S), 111-121. (with Dean Fink).
• From Recovery to Sustainability, Journal of Reading Recovery, 5(2), 39-44.
• Redistributed Leadership for Sustainable Professional Learning Communities. Journal of School Leadership, 16(5), (with Dean Fink).
• The Ripple Effect. Educational Leadership, 63(8) 16-20. (with Dean Fink)
• A Energia Da Munca, Patio: Revist Pedogogica, (9), 36, 2005, 51-55. (with Dean Fink)
• Educational Change Over Time? The Sustainability and Non-sustainability of Three Decades of Secondary School Change and Continuity. Educational Administration Quarterly, 42(1), February 3-41. (with  Ivor Goodson.)
• Teacher Nostalgia and the Sustainability of Reform: The Generation and Degeneration of Teachers’ Missions, Memory and Meaning.  Educational Administration Quarterly, 42(1), February, 42-61. (with  Shawn Moore. & Ivor Goodson)
• The Sustainability of Innovative Schools as Learning Organizations and Professional Learning Communities During Standardized Reform.  Educational Administration Quarterly, 42(1), February, 124-156.  (with Corrie Giles.)

2005

• Editorial Statement. Kappa Delta Pi, 69(2), 101-110.
• Leadership Succession. Kappa Delta Pi, 69(2), 163-173.
• The Energy of Change.  Patio:  Revista Pedagogia, 36, November  Brazil:  Artmed Editora S.A. 
• Editorial. School Leadership and Management, 25(4), September, 317-319. (With Alma Harris & Geoff Southworth.). 
• Educational Change Takes Ages: Life, Career and Generational Factors in Teachers’ Emotional Responses to Educational Change. Teaching and Teacher Education, 21, 967-983.
• Nachhaltige Entwicklung durch nachhaltige Schulleitung. Journal fur Schulentwicklung, February, 19-29. (with Dean Fink.).
• Inclusive and Exclusive Educational Change: Emotional Responses of Teachers and Implications for Leadership. School Leadership & Management, 24(2), 285-307.

2004

• The Seven Principles of Sustainable Leadership. Educational Leadership, 61(7), April, 8-13. (with Dean Fink.)
• Broader Purpose Calls for Higher Understanding. The Journal of the National Staff Development Council, 25(2), Spring, 46-50. (interview by Dennis Sparks).
• Distinction and Disgust: the emotional politics of school failure. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 7(1), 27-41.

2003

• ​Sustaining Leadership. Phi Delta Kappan, (84) 9, May, 693-700. (with Dean Fink.)

2002

• ​Teaching and Betrayal.  Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 8(3/4) 393-407.
• Sustainability of Educational Change: The Role of Social Geographies. Journal of Educational Change, 3(3/4), 189-214.
• Perspectives on Classroom Assessment. American Educational Research Journal, 39(1), 69-100. (with  Lorna Earl & Michelle Schmidt).
• The Emotional Geographies of Teachers’ Relations with their Colleagues.  International Journal of Educational Research, Vol. 35, 503-527.

2001

• Entrevista:  Andy Hargreaves.  Patio Revista Pedagogica, 19, November, 30-38.  Brazil:  Artmed Editora Ltda.
• The Emotional Geographies of Teaching.  Teachers' College Record, 103(6), December, 1056-1080.
• Classrooms, Colleagues, Communities and Change:  The Sociology of Teaching at the Turn of the Century.  Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education and Development, 4(1).
• O Ensino Como Profissao Paradoxal.  Patio:  Revista Pedagogia, IV (16), February, 13-18.  Brazil:  Artmed Editora Ltda.
• Beyond Anxiety and Nostalgia:  Building a Social Movement for Educational Change.  Phi Delta Kappan, 82(5), January, 373-377.

2000

• Culture Currents. International Journal of Leadership in Education:  Theory and Practice, 3(4), October/December, 415-419.
• Intensificación.  El trabajo de los profesores, mejor o peor?  Docencia:  Hacia un Movimiento Pedagogico National, 11, September, 75-92.
• Mixed Emotions:  Teachers' Perceptions of their Interactions with Students.  Teaching and Teacher Education, 16, June, 811-826
• Professional and Parents:  Personal Adversaries or Public Allies.  Prospects in Education (The journal of UNESCO), XXX(2), June, 201.213.  (also translated in Spanish and French)
• The Paradoxical Profession:  Teaching at the Turn of the Century. Prospects in Education (The journal of UNESCO), XXX(2), June, 167-180.  (with Leslie Lo).  (also translated in Spanish and French).
• Representing Educational Change.  Journal of Educational Change, 1(1), January, 1-3.
• The Changing Context for Educational Reform, Eisenhower National Clearinghouse,  (with Michael Fullan).
• Curriculum Integration and Classroom Relevance:  A Study of Teachers’ Practice, Journal of Curriculum Supervision, 15(2), Winter, 89-112  (with Shawn Moore).
• Three Dimensions of Educational Reform, Educational Leadership, 57(7), April, 30-34. (with Dean Fink).
• Four Ages of Professionalism and Professional Learning, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 6(2).
• Educational Outcomes, Modern and Postmodern Interpretations: Response to Smyth and Dow, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 21(1), March. (with Shawn Moore).
• Mentoring in the New Millennium, Theory into Practice, 39(1), The Ohio State University, 50-56. (with Michael Fullan).

1999

• Schooling in the New Millennium: Educational Research for the Postmodern Age, Discourse, 20(3), December.
• Getting into Outcomes: The Emotions of Interpretation and Implementation, Curriculum Perspectives, 19(3), 1-10. (with Shawn Moore).
• Fielding Errors:  Deepening the Debate about Teacher Collaboration and Collegiality:  Response to Fielding.  The Australian Educational Researcher, 26(2), August 45-54.
• Reinventing Professionalism:  Teacher Education and Teacher Development for a Changing World, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education & Development, 2(1), June, 65-74.
• Educar en la periferia de la sociedad. Cuadernos de Pedagogia, 75.
• Rethinking School Improvement, in Murphy, J. & Louis, K. S. (Eds.), Handbook of Research  on Educational Administration (2nd Edition), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 251-276. (with Karen Seashore Louis and James Toole).
• The Emotional Politics of Teaching and Teacher Development:  With Implications for Educational Development, International Journal of Leadership in Education, 1(4), 315-336.

1998

• The Emotional Practice of Teaching, Teaching and Teacher Education, 14(8), 835-854.
• The Emotions of Educational Change, in Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M. & Hopkins, D. (Eds.), The International Handbook of Educational Change, The Netherlands, Kluwer Publications, (558-570.
• Effectiveness, Improvement and Educational Change:  A Distinctively Canadian Approach? Education Canada, 38(2), Summer. (with Dean Fink).

1997

• La investigación educativa en la era postmoderna, Revista de educación, Enero-Abril,  111-130.
• A Vueltas con la Voz, Kikiriki, Movimento Cooperativo Escuela Popular, 42-43.
• Cultures of Teaching and Educational Change, in Biddle, B. & Good, T. & Goodson, I. F. (Eds.), The International Handbook of Teachers and Teaching, The Netherlands, Kluwer Publications, 1297-1319.

1996

• Transforming Knowledge:  Blurring the Boundaries Between Research, Policy and Practice, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Summer, 18(2), 161-178.
• Revisiting Voice, Educational Researcher, January/February, 1-8.
• Review article on Abraham, J.  ‘Divide and School’, as contribution to Review Symposium in British Journal of Sociology of Education.

1995

• Paradoxes of Change:  School Renewal in the Postmodern Age, Educational Leadership, April, 14-19.
• Induction or Seduction?, Peabody Journal of Education, 70(3), Spring, 41-63. (with Noreen Jacka)
• Entrevista:  Andy Hargreaves — La importancia de vivir en la frontera, in Sancho, J. M. & Hernandez, F. (Eds.), Cuadernos de Pedagogias.  Madrid, Spain:  Marco Iberica, February,86-93.

1994

• Triple Transitions:  Educating Early Adolescents in the Changing Canadian Context, Curriculum Perspectives, 14(3), 1-10. (with Lorna Earl).
• Restructuring Restructuring:  Postmodernity and the Prospects for Educational Change, Journal of Education Policy.
• Realities of Teaching, International Encyclopedia of Education.  Oxford:  Pergamon Press.
• Teacher Development in the Postmodern Age, Journal of Education for Teaching, Vol. 19, Supplement 1, 95-112.
• Lärares Röster och Skolreformers Mångfaldiga Verklighet, Didactica Minima, 30, 20-37.

1993

• La Reforma Curricular y el Maestro,  Cuadernas de Pedagogia, 211, Febrero, 50-54.
• Individualism and Individuality:  Reinterpreting the Teacher Culture, International Journal of Educational Research, 19, (3).

1992

• Time and Teachers’ Work:  An Analysis of the Intensification Thesis, Teachers College Record, 94, (1), 87-108.
• El Tiempo y el Espacio en el Trabajo del Profesor, Revisita de Educación, numero 298, Mayo-Agosto, 31-55.

1991

• Teaching and Guilt:  Exploring the Emotions of Teaching,  Teaching and Teacher Education, 7, (5/6), 491-505.
• Curriculum Reform and the Teacher.  Curriculum Journal, 2, (3), 249-258.
• Continuity and Change in Educational Policy:  Some Canadian Comparisons, Journal of Education Policy, 6, (2).

1990

• ​ Paths of Professional Development:  Contrived Collegiality, Collaborative Culture and the Case of Peer Coaching, Teaching and Teacher Education, 4, (2). (with Ruth Dawe).
• Teachers’ Work and the Politics of Time and Space,  Qualitative Studies in Education, 3, (4), pp. 303-320. 

1988

• Teaching Quality:  A Sociological Analysis, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 20, (3),  pp. 211-231.

1987

• 9-13 Middle Schools and the Comprehensive Experience, Forum, September 11.
• Personal and Social Education and the Organization of Middle Schools, Pastoral Care in Education, November.

1986

• ​Research and Policy:  Some Observations on SSHRC-funded Education Projects, Journal of Educational Policy, 1, (3), pp. 116-132.

1984

• Experience Counts, Theory Doesn’t:  How Teachers Talk About Their Work,  Sociology of Education, October, pp. 244-254.
• Apple Crumbles?--A Review Essay on the Work of Michael Apple,  Journal of Curriculum Studies, February, pp. 206-210.

1983

• What’s Good for the Goose:  Recommendations and Research on Primary Education, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 15, pp. 96-99.

1982

• Resistance and Relative Autonomy Theories:  Problems of Distortion and Incoherence in Recent Marxist Analyses of Education, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 3, (2), pp. 108-126.
• CCCS Gas:  Politics and Science in the Work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies.  Oxford Review of Education, 8, (2), pp. 139-144. (with Martyn Hammersley).
• The Rhetoric of School-Centred Innovation, Journal of Curriculum Studies, June, pp. 251-266.

1981

• The Middle School Muddle. Times Educational Supplement, November, pp. 4. (with Les Tickle)

1980

• Review Article  on Rutter et al., Fifteen Thousand Hours as contribution to review symposium in British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1, (2), June, pp. 211-216.

1978

• Attitudes to Middle Schools, Education 3-13, April, pp. 11-16 (with Dennis Warwick).

1977

• Progressivism  and Pupil Autonomy,  Sociological Review, August, pp. 585-621.

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