Dennis Shirley is Gabelli Faculty Fellow and Professor of Formative
Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at
Boston College. He has led and advised many educational change
initiatives. He was the principal investigator of the Massachusetts
Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement, a federally
funded improvement network that united 18 urban schools, 7 higher
education institutions, and 16 community-based organizations. He
has conducted in-depth studies on school innovations in England,
Germany, Canada, and South Korea. Dennis has been a visiting
professor at Harvard University in the United States, at Venice
International University in Italy, at the National Institute of
Education in Singapore, at the University of Barcelona in Spain,
and the University of Stavanger in Norway. He is a Richard von
Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, Germany.
Dennis holds a doctorate in education from Harvard University.
Andy Hargreaves is a research professor at Boston College
and a visiting professor at the University of
Ottawa. He is an elected member of the U.S.
National Academy of Education. He is past president of
the International Congress for School
Effectiveness and Improvement, adviser in education to
the first minister of Scotland, and former adviser
to the premier of Ontario. Andy is cofounder
and president of the ARC Education Project: a group of nations
committed to humanistic goals in education. Andy’s more than
30 books have attracted 8 Outstanding Writing Awards. He has
been honored for services to public education and educational
research in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Andy is ranked by Education Week among the top 20 scholars
with most influence on U.S. education policy debate. In 2015,
Boston College gave him its Excellence in Teaching With
Technology Award. Andy’s most recent book is Leadership From
the Middle: The Beating Heart of Educational
Transformation.
The Age of Identity is the fifth book that Dennis and Andy
have written together.
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