Andrew Hargreaves (born 13 February 1951) is visiting professor at the

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and research professor at

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Early life

Hargreaves grew up in the small

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textile and engineering town of

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in England, home to football club

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. In 2002, he laid the foundation stone for the new building at his old primary school, Spring Hill Community Primary School, with his former teacher, Mary Hindle. The youngest of three brothers, he was the first in his extended family history to enter higher education, studying sociology at

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Academic career

Hargreaves completed his PhD in

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at the

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in England, and lectured in a number of English universities, including

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, until in 1987 he moved to the

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in Canada, where he co-founded and directed the International Center for Educational Change. From 2002–2018 he was the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at

, until he returned to Canada to become Visiting Professor at the

. Hargreaves has published more than 30 books that have been translated into a dozen languages. He has won ten Outstanding Writing Awards, including two 2025 Society of Professors of Education Book Awards, one with Dennis Shirley as well as the 2015

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with Michael Fullan. Hargreaves' books include: * ''The Making of an Educator: Living and Learning Through the Great Education Shift'' (2025) * ''Leadership from the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational Change'' (2024) * ''The Age of Identity: Who Do Our Kids Think they are and How Do We Help Them Belong?'' (with Dennis Shirley, 2023) * ''Well-being in Schools: Three Forces that Will Uplift Your Students in a Volatile World'' (2022) * ''Five Paths of Student Engagement'' (2021) * ''Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility'' * ''Collaborative Professionalism: When Teaching Together Means Learning for All'' (with Michael O’Connor)

Honours and memberships

Andy Hargreaves is an elected member of the

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in the US, and a member of the

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in the UK. He holds Honorary Doctorates from

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in Sweden, the

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, and the University of Greater Manchester.

Personal life

Hargreaves has been married for over 50 years to Pauline Hargreaves, a retired school administrator. They have two children –

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, an Associate Professor in Law at the

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, and

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, a Canadian entrepreneur and former Canadian federal government

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to Mona Fortier (2017–21). Hargreaves is a long-distance hiker, and a life-long supporter of

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References

External links

*http://www.andyhargreaves.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Hargreaves, Andy Alumni of the University of Sheffield Academics of the University of Nottingham Boston College faculty People from Accrington Living people 1951 births British educational theorists Alumni of the University of Leeds British expatriate academics in the United States