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Dennis Lynn Shirley

Professor and Gabelli Faculty Fellow

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Dennis Lynn Shirley

Ed.D.

Contact

Campion Hall Room 221

Telephone: 781-443-4802

Email: dennis.shirley@bc.edu

Education

  • Ed.D., Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

Research Interests

I am interested in ways that students engage with learning and ways that their well-being can be promoted.

Expertise

  • Comparative & International Education
  • Curriculum & Instruction
  • Formative and Whole Person Education
  • Philosophy of Education
Personal Website Curriculum Vitae

Department

TCS Teaching, Curriculum, and Society

Profile

I study educational change as it is enacted in individual schools, across school systems, and in new online digital learning environments as well. Recently I have worked with colleagues to create our new Lynch School undergraduate degree in Transformative Educational Studies and our new online master's degree in Global Perspectives: Teaching, Curricula, and Learning Environments.

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
  • Research Project in Seoul, South Korea
  • Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow, Bosch Academy, Berlin, German
  • Special Issue Guest Editor, East China Normal University Review of Education

Select Publications

In 2021, I published "Five Paths of Student Engagement: Blazing New Trails to Learning and Success" (Solution Tree) and "Well-being in Schools: Three Forces for Uplifting Your Students in Volatile Times (ASCD). Both of these books are co-authored with Andy Hargreaves and both are the result of studies we conducted in Canada and the US.

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