Among his most recent publications have been, Teachers Matter: Connecting Lives, Work and Effectiveness (co-authored with Pam Sammons, Gordon Stobart, Alison Kington and Qing Gu); Leading Schools in Times of Change (co-authored with Alma Harris, Mark Hadfield, Harry Tolley and John Beresford); Effective Leadership for School Improvement (co-authored with Alma Harris, David Hopkins, Andy Hargreaves, Mark Hadfield and Christopher Chapman); International Handbook on the Continuing Professional Development of Teachers (edited with Judyth Sachs); and Successful Principal Leadership in Times of Change: An International Perspective (edited with Ken Leithwood).
Chris continues to provide keynotes at conferences in the UK, America, Europe, Australia and China. Throughout, he has remained close to teachers, through teaching and as a founder member of a network learning community of schools. He is also the founder and coordinator of an existing 14 country research network on successful school principalship. In 1993, he was awarded an honorary doctorate for his work on teacher thinking and, in 2008, a D.Litt.
Whilst working with a number of publishers, his relationship with Routledge began with The Falmer Press in 1990, through the publication of Insights into Teachers’ Thinking and Practice (with Maureen Pope and Pam Denicolo). This was followed in 1993 by Research on Teacher Thinking; Understanding Professional Development (with James Calderhead and Pam Denicolo). In 1999, a seminal, single authored book on teachers’ professional learning and development, ‘Developing Teachers: The Challenges of Lifelong Learning’ was published. This brought together theories of professional learning and expertise and placed them in the real life policy and practice contexts of teachers. In 2002, with Ciaran Sugrue, he published, Developing Teachers and Teaching Practice, and, in 2003, Effective Leadership for School Improvement (co-authored with Alma Harris, Mark Hadfield, David Hopkins, Andy Hargreaves and Christopher Chapman). A second single-authored book, A Passion for Teaching was published in 2004. This synthesizes the literature and combines this with evidence from the field about the role of passion in successful teaching. The book provides a complement to the dominant discourse about ‘effective’ teaching, emphasising how emotions affect all teaching. The book is an acknowledgement of the contribution to high standards of teaching, learning and achievement of various forms of intellectual, physical, emotional and passionate endeavours in which teachers at their best engage; and has been translated into several languages.
Chris is also Founding and Chief Editor of ‘Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice’, the internationally-respected journal, also published by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, now in its sixteenth year. He is also a co-Editor of Educational Action Research, and an active editorial board member of several more internationally refereed journals. Chris is also Editor of the first International Handbook on Teacher and School Development, due to be published in 2011. He is co-editor, with Ann Lieberman, of a series of books on Teacher Quality and School Development.
His most recent book, with a colleague, is entitled, The New Lives of Teachers which will be published this month; and he will give the Opening Address on the same subject to the annual Dutch-speaking Educational Research Conference in June this year. The book examines the varied, oftentimes demanding commitments on teachers’ lives today. Using a range of contemporary examples of teaching, it examines the positive and negative influences upon career and professional development, in particular, the influences of leadership, culture, colleagues and conditions of work which are shown to be profoundly related to teachers’ commitment, work-life balance, well being, resilience and retention.
For further information on Christopher Day, visit his website.
