Professor David Hargreaves

Professor David H. Hargreaves, Associate Director for Development and Research for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, is a key proponent of the system redesign agenda. He is also a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and Senior Associate of the think tank Demos. He has served in teacher education, and has been Professor of Education in the University of Cambridge and Reader in Education at the University of Oxford. He has also been involved in educational administration and policy making as Chief Inspector of the Inner London Education Authority, Chief Executive of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and Chairman of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency.

He is the author of many books, including Social relations in a secondary school (1967), Interpersonal relations and education (1972), Deviance in classrooms (1975), The challenge for the comprehensive school (1982), School development planning (1988), The mosaic of learning (1994), Creative professionalism (1998), Education epidemic (2003) Working laterally (2003), and Learning for life (2004). He has written a number of pamphlets for the SSAT on personalising learning and system redesign.