Dr. Dennis Shirley's work in education spans from the microlevel of assisting beginning teachers to the macrolevel of designing and guiding large-scale research and intervention projects for school districts, states and provinces, and nations. Dennis recently collaborated with an international team on a study of the Alberta Initiative for School Improvement in Canada. He served on a team for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development studying improvements to lower secondary education in Norway. The findings of much of his research were presented in his first collaboratively authored book with Andy Hargreaves, entitled The Fourth Way. He has published an expanded version of this argument related to the role of computers in education in an article entitled The Fourth Way of Technology and Changethat has been published in a special issue of The Journal of Educational Change.
For 6 years, Dennis led a teacher inquiry project along with Boston Public Schools teacher-leader Elizabeth MacDonald; their research has been published in The Mindful Teacher. Dennis has presented on his research and led professional development workshops in Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. He was a Traveling Scholar with the Australian Council for Educational Leaders in 2011 and is planning future engagements in Finland, Sweden, and Norway.
You can email Dennis Shirley at shirleyd_bc.edu.
Dennis Shirley CV April 2011.doc
