Change Wars (Leading Edge)
Andy Hargreaves, Ph.D., is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Previously, he was the founder and co-director of the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Until he moved to North America in 1987, Dr. Hargreaves taught primary school and lectured in several English universities, including Oxford. He has held visiting professorships and fellowships in England, Australia, Sweden, Spain, the United States, Hong Kong, and Japan. He was awarded the Canadian Education Association/Whitworth 2000 Award for outstanding contributions to educational research in Canada. His bookTeaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity(2003) received outstanding writing awards from the American Educational Research Association and the American Library Association. Dr. Hargreaves initiated and coordinated the editing of theInternational Handbook of Educational Change(1998). His most recent books areSustainable Leadership(2006) with Dean Fink andThe Fourth Way(ASCD, 2009) with Dennis Shirley. He is founding editor-in-chief of theJournal of Educational Change. Dr. Hargreaves work has been translated extensively into more than a dozen languages. His current research interests include the emotions of teaching and leading and the sustainability of change and leadership in education, business, sports, and health.Michael Fullan, Ph.D., is professor emeritus at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto and special adviser on education to Dalton McGuinty, the Premier of Ontario. He served as dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Toronto from 1988 to 2003, leading two major organizational transformations including a merger of two large schools of education. He is currently working as adviser-consultant on several major education reform initiatives around the world. Michael Fullan bases his work on the moral purpose of education as it is applied in schools and school systems to bring about major improvements. He has written several best sellers that have been translated into many languages. His latest books includeThe New Meaning of Educational Change(4th edition, 2007) andThe Six Secrets of Change: What the Best Leaders Do to Help Their Organizations Survive and Thrive(2008).