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CPE TrusteesChairperson - Peter Humphreys M.Ed.(Birmingham) is Head of Mere Green Combined School, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. He has a career to date of 23 years spanning five urban primary schools within the City of Birmingham. Experience in a diverse range of settings with multi cultural, disadvantaged, challenged learners and more recently with large numbers of children with special needs. He lays emphasis on searching to build more open, democratic, non-ageist, community and collaboratively minded solutions to learning. He seeks to develop a curriculum which meets the needs of the learner. He chairs the Four Oaks Cluster of Schools; an exciting and innovative collaborative venture between ten geographically located schools committed to serving their school and wider communities. He is also a member of Education Now. Secretary - Janet Meighan trained as a teacher of young children. After many years of teaching in schools she worked in Higher Education for over 20 years with students preparing for a career in teaching, and also with teachers on in-service courses. As a Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby she was co-ordinator of the Early Years Courses. She has a commitment to personalised education, which recognises the uniqueness of each learner, and aims to support their growing autonomy as they responsibly participate in the management of their own learning. She has been a consultant and conducted workshops on:
She has also lectured nationally and internationally on early childhood themes. Whilst at the University of Derby she was involved extensively in action research IT-INSET, working democratically with small teams of students and teachers in schools to develop aspects of the curriculum and their own skills. She has contributed to various publications including the following books:
and has co-edited with Professor Philip Gammage,
She is a director of Education Now Ltd. and a director of Education Heretics Press Treasurer - John White has a background in youth and community work and in race and community relations. He has a wide experience of youth and community work in Britain and Germany and is currently Chief Officer of Tayside Racial Equality Council. He is co-founder of the home-education support group, Schoolhouse Home Education Advise. In a voluntary capacity he serves on Tayside Health Board; is a Dundee West End Community Councillor; is a member of The National Joint Consultative Forum (training voluntary groups to achieve charter marks); a member of the Scottish Consultative Council on Race Relations; a member of the Scottish Racial Equality Advisory Forum and member of the management committee of Dundee Victim Support. Kevin Holloway M.A.(Education), B.A.(Manchester), PGCE is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Leeds. Previously he taught mathematics in two Bradford schools. He is responsible for contributions to the PGCE Primary Course, the B.A.(Hons) QTS, and M.Ed. Studies. He is a member of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. His research interests include: the management of learning, and the development of numeracy, and he has published a number of papers on these topics. Roland Meighan D.Soc.Sc., Ph.D., B.Sc.(Soc), LCP., Cert. Ed.,FRSA was appointed Special Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham (1992-98) in recognition of his research and writings in the field of current and future learning systems in education. He was Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Birmingham for over twenty years and he has also been associated with the Open University in various part-time roles since its inception. He has worked in primary, secondary and further education in the UK. and he has also had experience of the Local Education Authority Inspectorate. He has lectured in Social Psychology, Curriculum and Sociology, and has been involved in teacher training and in-service teacher education for over twenty years. The focus of his work has been learning systems, past, present and future, which has led him to identify key distinctions between authoritarian, autonomous and democratic patterns. This has led him to propose that, in a democracy, learners must manage their own education, choosing the mode of learning that is appropriate for their learning style and type of intelligence, rather than making the best they can of what is prescribed for them by the state. He is
His research has included -
Professor Meighan has published widely. The most well known of over 100 publications are:
Philip Toogood – Has worked in both independent and state sectors of education. A former Head teacher in both mainstream and alternative schools, he founded the Flexi College in Burton on Trent. He was also amongst the founder members of the Community Education Association; the Human Scale Education Movement and Education Now Publishing Co-operative. He undertakes consultancy in minischooling, small schooling and flexicolleges. He is author of The Head’s Tale (1983) and co-author of Anatomy of Choice in Education (1991) Chris Shute - Former teacher, home-educating tutor and author of Compulsory Schooling Disease; Alice Miller: the unkind society, parenting and schooling; Edmund Holmes and ‘The Tragedy of Education’. He has worked as a consultant to families educating children out of school and has a background in fostering difficult adolescents, working in residential contexts and running educational holiday centres. Alison Preuss has a background in languages, sociology and journalism. An experienced home-educator, she has worked in social work (including child protection), youth and community work, women’s aid and basic adult education. She owned and managed her own business in language services and is currently a freelance writer and parliamentary researcher for a MSP. She co-founded the home-education support group, Schoolhouse Home Education Advise and is currently secretary, dealing with enquiries, volunteer training, publicity and editing newsletters. She is vice-chair of ARCH (Action on the Rights of Children in Education) and parent representative on an ethnic minority education project in Dundee, Barathya Ashram. Other committee members (co-opted) are:· Sharon Ginnis - (corresponding) Educational consultant Trish Humphreys – Teacher for 22 years covering all phases from early years up to special needs children in secondary schools. Now works as a Local Authority Teacher/Advisor on special educational needs. Amanda Salmon - Classical musician with an interest in personalised forms of education |