Email: andrew.hargreaves@bc.edu
Engagement, Well-being & Play in Schools; Professional Capital in Teaching; School Networks; Educational Change; Leadership from the Middle; Global Educational Policy
Dr. Hargreaves is not currently accepting Ph.D. students.
Andy Hargreaves is Research Professor at ֱ College, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa, and Honorary Professor at Swansea University.He is former President of the , Adviser in Education to the First Minister of Scotland and to the Minister of Education for New Brunswick in Canada. Andy is President and co-founder of the a group of nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy, and human rights in education. He is an elected member of the .
Andy’s current projects address developing and researching a national network of schools that serve high needs populations through ; implementation of inclusive education policies; and building global education policy networks to advance humanistic values. These total almost $3m in funding.
Andy has consulted with and addressed the OECD, the World Bank, the International Baccalaureate, Education International, the International Confederation of Principals, governments, universities, and professional associations worldwide. He has given keynote addresses in over 50 countries, in 47 US states and in all Australian states and Canadian provinces. Andy is ranked the with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, ֱ College gave him its Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the Education University of Hong Kong and the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the University of Bolton (his hometown university) in the UK. Professor Hargreaves’s books have received 8 outstanding writing awards, including (with Michael Fullan) the Grawemeyer Award, the most prestigious and highest value award in the field.
Andy has created new knowledge in the field including the concepts of professional capital, contrived collegiality, sustainable leadership, and the emotional practice of teaching.
Professor Hargreaves’s research is . His classic text on is among the most cited research books on teaching by a living author, including all languages. Andy’s most recent books are : the beating heart of educational transformation (2023), : A memoir of education & social mobility (2020), and, with Dennis Shirley, : Who do our kids think they are and how do we help them belong? (2024), three forces that will uplift your students in a volatile world (2022), and (2021). Andy’s opinion pieces can be read in The Washington Post, Education Week, The Conversation, The London Times, the Canadian Globe and Mail, and the Toronto Star.
Shirley, D. & Hargreaves, A. (2024) The Age of Identity: Who Do Our Kids Think They Are…and How We Can Help Them Belong. Corwin Press
Hargreaves, A. (2023) Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Transformation, New York, Routledge.
Hargreaves, A & Shirley, D. (2022). Well-being in Schools: three forces that will uplift your students in a volatile world, ASCD
Shirley, D. & Hargreaves, A. (2021), Five Paths of Student Engagement: blazing the trail to learning and success, Solution Tree.
Hargreaves, A (2020). Moving: a memoir of education and social mobility, Solution Tree
Hargreaves, A & O’Connor, M.T. (2018). Collaborative Professionalism: Corwin
Hargreaves, A., Boyle, A. & Harris, A. (2014)Uplifting Leadership, San Francisco, Jossey Bass
Hargreaves, A. &Fullan, M. (2012)Professional Capital: transforming teaching in every school,New York, Teachers College Press.
Hargreaves, A. &Shirley, D. (2012)The Global Fourth Way: the quest for educational excellence,Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin Press.
Hargreaves, A., Lieberman, A., Fullan, M. & Hopkins, D. (Eds.) (2010)Second International Handbook of Educational Change. Dordrecht, Springer.
Hargreaves, A. & Shirley, D. (2009)The Fourth Way,Thousand Oaks, CA; Corwin Press.
Hargreaves, A. & Fink, D. (2006)Sustainable Leadership, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
Hargreaves, A. (2003)Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity. New York: Teachers' College Press and Buckingham: Open University Press.
Hargreaves, A. (1994).Changing Teachers, Changing Times: Teachers’ Work and Culture in the Postmodern Age. Continuum & Teacher’s College Pres
LEGO Foundation. Playing at the Edge of Change: Creating & Researching a National Network of Playful Schools Serving High Needs Populations (with Trista Hollweck) $2,170,000, 2022-2023
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada. Taking the Panic out of the Pandemic: Creating and Using a Thought-meet to Stimulate and Support a Global Educational Movement for Equitable, Inclusive and Sustainable Educational Solutions to Covid-19 (with Trista Hollweck and Richard Barwell), $32,000, 2020-2021
ARC Education Project, an international consortium of education ministries and professional associations, 2020- $168,000 p.a.
Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Developmental Evaluation of the Implementation and Preliminary Outcomes of an Inclusive Education Policy Framework in Nova Scotia, $358,794 (with Jessica Whitley). 2019-2022
WISE Foundation, Professional Collaboration: An Illustrated, Researched-Based Typology, $103,000, 2016-2017
Council of Ontario Directors of Education, Leading From the Middle, $250,000 (with Dennis Shirley), 2015-2017
Northwest Rural Innovation and Student Engagement (NW RISE) Network, Education NorthWest, USA, $500,000 (with Dennis Shirley), 2013 -2018
Council of Ontario Directors of Education, Evaluation of “Essential for Some, Good for All” project, $400,000 (with Henry Braun), 2009-2013
Hargreaves, A. (2021). What the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Taught Us About Teachers and Teaching. In Vaillancourt, T. (Ed) Covid-19 and Education in Canada, the report of the COVID-19 Education Group, Ottawa, Royal Society of Canada.
Hargreaves, A. (2021). , Educational Leadership, Vol 79, No 4, pp 26-31, December.
Hargreaves, A & Shirley, D. (2021) Leadership, Identity, and Intersectionality, in Netolicky, D. (Ed), Future Alternatives for Educational Leadership: Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Democracy, New York, Routledge.
Shirley, D., Hargreaves, A., & Washington, S. (2020). , Teaching and Teacher Education, March,
Hargreaves, A. (2020). Austerity and inequality; or prosperity for all? Educational policy directions beyond the pandemic, Educational Research for Policy and Practice, October.
&(2020), : revisiting and revising classic understandings of teachers' work,, Vol. 5 No. 3/4, pp. 327-336
Hargreaves, A. (2020) Large-scale assessments and their effects: The case of mid-stakes tests in Ontario.J Educ Change21,393–420. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10833-020-09380-5
& (2020). Leading from the middle: its nature, origins, and importance, , 5(1), 92-114.
Hargreaves, A. (2020). The Day After: education & equity after the global pandemic, in Soskil, M (Ed.) Flip The System US, New York, Routledge.
Hargreaves, A. (2019). Teacher collaboration: 30 years of research on its nature, forms, limitations and effects, Teachers and Teaching, 25(5), 603-621. DOI:
Hargreaves, A. & O’Connor, M.T. (2018). Cultures of collaboration: their origins and opponents, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2(2),74-85
Hargreaves, A., Wangia, S. & O’Connor, M. (2018). Battling education narratives, in Netolicky, D., Andrews, J. & Paterson, C. (Eds.) (2015) Flip The System Australia, Routledge, 120-133.
Hargreaves, A. & Lowenhaupt, R. (2018). Leading with Consistency, in Waite, D., & Bogotch, I. (Eds.) The Wiley International Handbook of Educational Leadership, New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hargreaves, A. (2016). The place for professional capital and community, Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 1(1).
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