Bøker av Andy Hargreaves

There's more to all of us than what meets the eyeA perfect storm is upon us and educators are in the middle of it. Identity issues often incite and divide us, but they are actually our way out of the storm. No one should be oppressed or have to hide who they are, and young people need to be prepared for a future where they can learn to live together and help others belong.In their beautifully written book, Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves brilliantly show how we can and must engage with young people's identities in their fullness and complexity. Rooted in classical and contemporary theories of identity, extensive research, and in sheer common sense, their book takes us from bitterness to belonging and includes: Examples of how schools seek to address identity and belonging Strategies to deal with the raging identity controversies in our schools and societies Charts and graphics to help build inclusive professional communities Constant invitations to readers to apply ideas to their own work

This is a breakthrough book on student engagement. Join Dennis Shirley and Andy Hargreaves, two award-winning authors and leaders in their field, on a profound educational quest that will take you through exciting and challenging terrain. Five Paths of Student Engagement will open your eyes, heart, and mind and empower you to implement practices that lead directly to your students' well-being, learning, and success.By integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, and using inspiring examples from seven years of research, this book delves deeply into the what, why, and how of student engagement. It reveals who and what the true enemies of student engagement are, and shows you how to defeat them. It will enrich and reward your work for years to come.Utilize research-based strategies to promote active engagement in the classroom and build the foundation for student growth: Learn why active engagement is the new frontier of student achievement.Understand how engaging students means so much more than defeating boredom.Consider psychological and sociological theories that cast new light on engagement and motivation.Reflect on how engagement is about mystery and magic, meaning and purpose, and focus and mastery.Understand why increasing classroom engagement requires much more than surveys, rubrics and observation protocols.Learn strategies to battle all five enemies of engagement in order to engage students totally and motivate unmotivated students.Explore five clear paths of engagement that lead to improving student learning and success that all teachers and schools can embark upon immediately.Contents:PrefaceChapter 1: From Achievement to Engagement--Two Ages of Educational ChangeChapter 2: Theories of Engagement and Motivation--From Maslow to FlowChapter 3: Three Myths of Engagement--Relevance, Technology, and FunChapter 4: The Five Enemies of Engagement--How to Defeat ThemChapter 5: Standardized Testing--The Archenemy of EngagementChapter 6: The Five Pathways of Student Engagement--In Theory and PracticeChapter 7: The Promise of Engagement and the Battle for ChangeReferencesIndex

Social mobility--the chance, through education, to achieve greater success compared to one's parents--is one of the most compelling issues of our time. In Moving, renowned professor, government adviser, and global change agent Andy Hargreaves shares candid, poignant and occasionally hilarious personal experiences of social mobility. Deeply revealing, emotionally direct, and intellectually insightful, the book begins in 1950s Northwest England and takes readers up to Hargreaves's university education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hargreaves openly shares how class movement has affected him throughout life, links his narrative to classic and contemporary research and realities, and calls on society to reverse the increasing levels of social immobility and inequity worldwide.Use this resource to inspire your work in increasing learning for every student:Learn, through the author's research and firsthand account, how issues surrounding mobility, equity, and education in the 20th century are still reflected in 21st-century life.Understand the obstacles of socially mobile students as they negotiate schoolwork, poverty, cultural collisions, and personal hardship. Witness how Hargreaves's experiences of testing, selection, ADHD, inspiring and uninspiring teaching, whole-child inclusion, and elitist exclusion are still alive and well in education today.Study three alternative scenarios for the future of social mobility that highlight the best ways to address both mobility and equity and to deal with the strains experienced by students who succeed in becoming mobile.Contents:Preface and AcknowledgmentsTable of ContentsAbout the AuthorChapter 1: Move On UpChapter 2: No One Likes Us; We Don't CareChapter 3: How the Light GetsChapter 4: End of EdenChapter 5: Worlds ApartChapter 6: Higher LovesChapter 7: The Full MontyChapter 8: The Bigger PictureIndexEndnotes

This is a book about collaboration by education professionals on a global scale by first establishing the need for it then outlining how that collaboration can be created.

International in its empirical and theoretical scope, this book contains a number of new ideas about teaching and addresses many of the recent changes that are occurring in teachers' work. It discusses both the need for change and the conditions of change in teaching.

What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success? The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever.

Helping educational leaders to use the ideas put forward in The Fourth Way, this book will allow readers to achieve positive and sustainable reform in their schools.

Argues that in a world of growing complexity and rapid change, it is vital to forge strong, open and interactive relationships with communities beyond schools in order to bring about significant improvements in teaching and learning within schools.