An Evening with Professor Andy Hargreaves: Building Collaborative Professionalism.

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An Evening with Professor Andy Hargreaves: Building Collaborative Professionalism.

By UNSW School of Education

Date and time

Mon, 11 Mar 2019 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM AEDT

Location

UNSW Australia - Room 119, Level 1 John Goodsell Building

High Street Kensington Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia

Description

An Evening with Professor Andy Hargreaves: Building Collaborative Professionalism.

Join us for this unique opportunity to hear and have a conversation with a leading scholar and thought-leader about educational improvement and change. Professor Hargreaves will speak about his most recent research on collaborative professionalism in various countries around the world.

About the Presenter:

Andy Hargreaves is Research Professor at Boston College, Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University. He is Past President of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Adviser in Education to the First Minister of Scotland and from 2016-2018 to the Premier of Ontario. Andy is founder of the Atlantic Rim Collaboratory (ARC): a group of 9 nations committed to broadly defined excellence, equity, wellbeing, inclusion, democracy and human rights.

Andy has consulted with the OECD, the World Bank, governments, universities and professional associations worldwide. He has given keynote addresses in 50 countries, 47 US states and all Australian states and Canadian provinces. Andy’s more than 30 books have attracted multiple Outstanding Writing Awards. Andy is ranked in the top 20 scholars with most influence on US education policy debate. In 2015, Boston 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.

His most recent book (with Michael O’Connor) is Collaborative Professionalism: when teaching together means learning for all (Corwin, May 2018).

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The UNSW School of Education specialises in educational research and teacher education at the pre-service and in-service levels, with a particular focus on secondary and higher education contexts. It has more than 1800 students, including over 100 higher degree students, and nearly 135 academic, administrative and school-based staff from all around the world. For a list of other upcoming Professional Learning events see here.

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