Andy Hargreaves is a world-renowned British-Canadian educator who has dedicated his life to working with teachers and schools to make learning and teaching more engaging, fulfilling and collaborative for everyone. An author or editor of almost 40 books, Andy is a gifted writer who has become one of the most cited education scholars alive and has received 8 outstanding writing awards to date. He is an education adviser to the First Minister of Scotland, and for the Minister of Education for New Brunswick in Canada. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Sweden, Hong Kong and the University of Greater Manchester, has been honoured in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia for services to public education and educational research, and was awarded his university's Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award in 2015 at Boston College in the US. You can learn more at www.andyhargreaves.com and can join his 40,000+ followers on X (formerly Twitter) @hargreavesbc or Bluesky @ahargreaves.bsky.social.

It might not be a memoir (he says), but it absolutely falls somewhere between a highly illuminative portrait of our greatest educational interactionist and a deeply engaging origin story of a truly unique and wonderful human being. As an avid reader of Andy's books for the better part of two decades, I think this is the keystone upon which everything else should be placed. The early career teacher and academic will find incredible wisdom and advice. We somewhat later-stage activists, teachers, wonks, and researchers will find ourselves in the pages, amazed by the lucidity and insight Andy so consistently maintains as we come into contact with the main social theorists and thinkers of our formative years and look upon them with new eyes. It is truly a monumental piece of work and generous contribution to further feed our 'passion for understanding education'. Chapeau, Andy.David H Edwards