Welcome to the Human Scale Education Movement

Welcome to The Human Scale Education Movement

Putting relationships at the heart of the organisation and design of our schools.

Human Scale Education Movement works directly with schools and parents to promote human scale learning environments where children and young people are known and valued as individuals. We believe that ‘humanity of scale’ and the ‘primacy of relationships’ should not only inform the design of our schools but should also influence our public sector services.

The humanity of scale and the primacy of relationships

This short film, an interview with Linda Nathan from the Boston small schools movement conducted by James Wetz, explains the importance of humanity of scale and the primacy of relationships.

We believe a schooling system based on these principles would make it possible to develop smaller learning environments, provide a bedrock for innovations in pedagogy, have an impact on social justice and foster schools which are rooted in families and communities.