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Keynote Speakers
Dr Martyn Rouse:
Martyn Rouse is Chair of Social and Educational Inclusion at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland where he directs the Inclusive Practice Project, which is designed to reform teacher education so that teachers are better prepared to work in the diverse classrooms to be found in schools today. Previously he was a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge and Director of Studies for Education at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He was a teacher for 16 years in London and also worked for a local authority advisory service. He has undertaken research and development work on inclusion for local authorities in the UK and for several national and international agencies, including the European Agency for Special Needs Education, the OECD and UNICEF. Recent international work includes the ‘Schools for All Project’ in the Republic of Latvia, the Inclusive Practice Project in the Republic of Georgia, as well as development work on inclusion in Bosnia, Serbia and Armenia. He co-ordinated a Department for International Development (DFID) project with the Kenyan Ministry of Education designed to build educational capacity at the local level so that more disabled children can attend school. He has carried out research for the DfES in England on the identity and status of teachers of special educational needs and recently chaired the steering group for the HMIE review of provision for pupils with dyslexia in Scotland. He has published widely on inclusion and special needs and is a well-known speaker on these issues nationally and internationally. He is the co-author of Achievement and Inclusion in Schools published by Routledge, winner of the NASEN/Times Education Supplement Academic Book of the Year 2008.
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Dr Andy Hargreaves:
Andy Hargreaves is the Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Andy Hargreaves's teaching and research at Boston College concentrates on educational change, performing beyond expectations, sustainable leadership and the emotions of teaching.
Professor Hargreaves qualified for and went on to teach primary school before studying for and completing his Ph.D. thesis in Sociology at the University of Leeds in England. He 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. From 2000-2002, he was also Professor of Educational Leadership and Change at the University of Nottingham in England.
Professor Hargreaves has authored or edited more than 25 books which have been translated into a dozen languages. Andy Hargreaves’ book Teaching In The Knowledge Society: Education in the Age of Insecurity, is published by Teachers’ College Press and Open University Press and has received the Choice Outstanding Book Award from the American Libraries Association for Teaching and the American Educational Research Association Divison B Outstanding Book Award. Andy's current research is funded by the UK Specialist and Academies Trust and the National College for School Leadership and is concerned with organizations that perform beyond expectations in education, sport, business and health.
Andy now lives close to Boston, Massachusetts with his wife Pauline who is also an educator. Their children, Stuart and Lucy, work in the fields of law and environmental policy.
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