Andrew Hargreaves (born 13 February 1951) is Visiting Professor at the

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and Research Professor at

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. 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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. 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. Hargreaves has published more than 30 books that have been translated into a dozen languages. He has won eight Outstanding Writing Awards, including, with Michael Fullan, the 2015 Grawemeyer Award. His most recent books are ''Well-being in Schools: Three Forces that Will Uplift Your Students in a Volatile World'' and ''Five Paths of Student Engagement'' (both with Dennis Shirley), ''Moving: A Memoir of Education and Social Mobility'', and ''Collaborative Professionalism: When Teaching Together Means Learning for All'' with Michael O’Connor.

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