On the Bookshelf
Fall, 2011 Book Selection
The Fourth Way: The Inspiring Future for Educational Change
By Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley
This compelling and provocative volume illustrates how old ways for effecting social and educational change are no longer suited to the fast, flexible, and vulnerable new world of the 21st century. The authors guide readers through three ways of change that have defined global educational policy and practice from the 1960’s to the present:
Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley offer an inspiring new version and plan that leads to remarkable reforms in student learning and achievement and embraces
- An inclusive vision with schools, communities, and corporate partnerships working together
- Learning that is creative, engaging, and demanding
- Shared and ambitious improvement targets Prudent accountability that tests samples Strong schools helping their weaker peers
- An evidence-informed, rather than data-driven profession
- Sustainable leadership that spreads and lasts
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair at the Lynch School of Education, Boston
College, and the elected Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education, London. He is the
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Educational Change and serves as leading editor of the first and second International Handbook of Educational Change. Hargreaves is the cofounder and former director of the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Toronto.
Dennis Shirley is professor at the Lynch School of Education, Boston College. His work ranges from assisting beginning teachers in complex school environments to designing large-scale research and intervention projects for school districts and states. Shirley was the first U.S. scholar to document community organizing as an educational change strategy, which has resulted in visiting professorships at Harvard University and the University of Barcelona and in keynote speeches and educational consulting in Austria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
A copy of the book is available in the CFE library. |
