Andy Hargreaves - Sustainable Leadership

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Sustainable Leadership

Modern educational leadership is driven by moral purpose, and in Sustainable Leadership, Hargreaves and Fink give us a first-class primer on how to make such leadership ubiquitous.

DAVID HOPKINS, HSBC Chair of International Leadership and formerly chief advisor to the Secretary of State on School Standards, Department for Education and Skills, England

When leaders depart from their initial values and purposes, their organizations change in untoward ways. In Sustainable Leadership, the authors convince us that when leaders focus on what is truly important and sustainable, organizations will thrive. This is, thank God, no cookbook. It is a distinctive contribution to the literature.

SEYMOUR B. SARASON,

professor of psychology, emeritus,

Yale University

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hargreaves, Andy.

Sustainable leadership / Andy Hargreaves, Dean Fink. 1st ed.

p. cm. (Jossey-Bass leadership library in education)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-6838-0 (alk. paper)

ISBN-10: 0-7879-6838-2 (alk. paper)

1. School management and organization. 2. Educational leadership.

I. Fink, Dean, 1936 . II. Title. III. Series.

LB2805.H32 2006

371.2dc22 2005013835

THE JOSSEY-BASS

Leadership Library in Education

Andy Hargreaves

Consulting Editor

THE JOSSEY-BASS LEADERSHIP LIBRARY IN EDUCATION is a distinctive series of original, accessible, and concise books designed to address some of the most important challenges facing educational leaders. The authors are respected thinkers in the field who bring practical wisdom and fresh insight to emerging and enduring issues in educational leadership. Packed with significant research, rich examples, and cutting-edge ideas, these books will help both novice and veteran leaders understand their practice more deeply and make schools better places to learn and work.

ANDY HARGREAVES is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and the author of numerous books on culture, change, and leadership in education.

For current and forthcoming titles in the series, please see the last pages of this book.

To our children,

Stuart, Lucy, Danielle, and Tracy,

environmentalists, educators, and advocates

whose contributions to the public good

will live on long after this book and its authors

have been forgotten

Acknowledgments

Much of this book arises out of research conducted for and funded by the Spencer Foundation of the United States under the title Change Over Time? A Study of Culture, Structure, Time and Change in Secondary Schooling and codirected by Andy Hargreaves and Ivor Goodson. We have also drawn on two other projects: Change Frames, funded by the Ontario Minister of Education Transfer Grant in partnership with one of the provinces largest school districts, and Succeeding Leaders, supported by the Ontario Principals Council.

We were privileged to have outstanding research support on all projects from colleagues who worked with us to collect, organize, and analyze the case study data on which we have drawn in this book. We are indebted to Michael Baker, Colin Biott, Carol Brayman, Martha Foote, Corrie Giles, Ivor Goodson, Shawn Moore, Paul Shaw, Robert White, and Sonia James Wilson. Outstanding administrative and research assistance was provided by Nancy Stahl, Paul Chung, and Kristin Kew in Boston and by Leo Santos in Toronto.

Our greatest professional thanks go to the teachers and administrators who worked openly with us, gave generously of their time, and responded with continual criticism to draft reports of our findings. We thank Lucy Hargreaves for providing insight and information on Education for Sustainable Development initiatives in particular.

Our greatest personal gratitude and love is reserved for our wives, Pauline and Ramona, who for over seventy years between them have sustained each of us beyond measure.

A.H.

D.F.

The Authors

Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education in Boston College. The mission of the chair is to promote social justice and to connect theory and practice in education. Raised in a Northern English mill town, Hargreaves taught primary school and lectured at several English universities, including Oxford University, before moving in 1987 to the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education in Canada, where he later cofounded and directed the International Center for Educational Change. He took his current position at Boston College in 2002. Andy Hargreaves has authored and edited more than twenty-five books in education, which have been published in many languages. His previous book Teaching in the Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity received outstanding book awards from the American Educational Research Association and the American Library Association.

Dean Fink is an independent consultant with extensive experience in over thirty countries. Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canadas largest manufacturing city, he spent thirty-four years in public education, thirty of which were in leadership roles as department head, assistant principal, principal, and superintendent. After taking early retirement in 1993 and completing his Ph.D., he wrote Changing Our Schools (with Louise Stoll), followed by Good Schools/Real Schools: Why School Reform Doesnt Last, and Its About Learning and Its About Time (with Louise Stoll and Lorna Earl). His most recent book, published in 2005, is Leadership for Mortals: Developing and Sustaining Leaders of Learning.