Dr Tony Breslin – Chair
Dr Breslin is Director of the consultancy Breslin Public Policy Limited and Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Between September 2001 and August 2010, he was Chief Executive at the Citizenship Foundation. Granted the Freedom of the City of London in 2004, Tony is widely published and frequently gives keynote addresses at conferences and seminars on education, participation and related aspects of public policy.
Ray Edwards – Honorary Treasurer
Ray Edwards spent many years with the Charity Commission, covering all aspects of charity administration and finance. He is experienced in project management and the development of information strategy and was, for some years, Head of Charity Investigations. Since leaving the Commission, he has worked as a charity consultant.
Kevin Avison
Kevin Avison is Executive Officer at the Steiner Waldorf Advisory Service, a collegiate of advisers with a wide background of work in Steiner education, covering the full range of pedagogy from early childhood to upper school. The Service organises and co-ordinates courses, offers consultancy to school and takes part in meetings with initial Teacher educators.
Mike Davies
Mike Davies is a founder of the human scale education movement and former head teacher. He led a radical phase in the life of Telegraph Hill comprehensive in the south London borough of Lewisham before heading a new purpose-built school on the Essex coast. Under Mike the Essex school, Bishops Park College, was unique as a truly radical state school. Built as three ‘schools within a school’, his vision was of an egalitarian community where students found and grew their talents and theirselves.
Katherine Hickman
Katherine was a teacher at Stantonbury Campus School for 27 years, she joined the school in the 1970’s when it was at the forefront of innovation in comprehensive education. Stantonbury is now one of the Leader schools in the HSS project. She holds an M.A in Educational management and Curriculum Studies from the University of Leicester and her final thesis was on working with Parents bridging the gap between home and school entitled listening to Parents. Katherine joined HSEM at the end of the eighties and ran a variety of workshops and was responsible for organising several conferences.
Robin Precey
Dr Precey has been a Trustee of HSEM for almost 20 years and is passionate about the organisation’s values. He has taught in schools in England for 32 years with 13 of these as the headteacher of 2 schools. He has worked at Canterbury Christ Church University as Principal Lecturer and director of the Centre for Education Leadership and School Improvement (CELSI) responsible for coordination of teaching on 2 Masters Programmes, a Doctoral module and student supervision, consultancy and research. His focus is on leadership and his research interests are: Transformative learning for transformational leadership; Evaluation of the impact of professional development programmes and Leadership and management of change.
Mary Tasker
Mary is co founder of the UK Human Scale Education Movement and was chair of the charity between 1995 and 2010. Previously a lecturer in education at Bath University Mary has been a teacher, educator and a champion of child voice in education.
Paul Warwick
Paul is a Lecturer at the University of Leicester school of education where he leads the PGCert programme for teachers in Citizenship Education. His focus is on action research within innovations such as Education for Sustainable Development, Citizenship Education, personalised learning programmes for young people at risk of disaffection or exclusion within mainstream schooling and educational reform.
Human Scale Education Movement Patrons
Professor Tim Brighouse
Professor Brighouse has spent his entire career working in education. He has served as: London Schools Commissioner, Chief Education Officer for Oxfordshire and Birmingham, Professor of Education, Keele University and is Visiting Professor at the Institute of Education London. Tim’s career started in the classroom, teaching in Derbyshire and South Wales. He has written books on education, made numerous media broadcasts and conference speeches. He is a Non-Executive Director at RM.
Satish Kumar
In his earlier years, Satish was a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi’s vision of renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. In 1973, following an 8000 mile peace pilgrimgage, he settled in England, taking an Editorship of Resurgence magazine. He has been the editor ever since. He is the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in Britain. He founded the Small School in Hartland, a pioneering secondary school (aged 11-16), which brings into its curriculum ecological and spiritual values. Satish is a Visiting Fellow at the Schumacher College .
Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is a leading environmentalist and co-Founder of Forum for the Future. Established in 1996, Forum for the Future is now the UK’s leading sustainable development charity, with over 100 partner organisations, including some of the world’s leading companies. He is is an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development. His numerous appearances on television and radio, countless public lectures and many hard-hitting articles in newspapers and magazines have made him the best-known environmentalist in Britain today.
Professor Richard Pring
Professor Pring is an author and academic who was Director of the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University. In 2003 he retired and became Lead Director of the Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training, a £1,000,000 six year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation. He works with his Aga Khan University in Karachi, helping to develop and teach the doctoral programme within the Institute for Educational Development.