Background
Hargreaves grew up in the small Lancashire textile and engineering town of Accrington in England, home to football club Accrington Stanley.
Professor of Educational Leadership
Hargreaves grew up in the small Lancashire textile and engineering town of Accrington in England, home to football club Accrington Stanley.
Hargreaves completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at the University of Leeds in England, and lectured in a number of English universities including Oxford until in 1987 he moved to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Canada, where he co-founded and directed the International Center for Educational Change.
The mission of the Chair is to promote social justice and connect theory and practice in education. The youngest of three brothers, he was the first in his extended family history to enter higher education, studying sociology at Sheffield University. From 2000–2002, he was also Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of Nottingham in England.
He has written or edited more than 25 books which have been translated into a dozen languages.
Their two children live in Toronto, Canada.