Jeremy Cunningham was a headteacher for 18 years in two state secondary schools in Oxfordshire. He has been active in citizenship and human rights education since the 1970s, and has written about student participation, school ethos and fair disputes processes. His curriculum development experience includes integrated humanities, Citizenship and Personal Social and Health education. He completed an MPhil at the University of York in 1986 on human rights education in a secondary school.
    Since stepping down from headship in 2005, Jeremy worked as a part-time consultant on the programme Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) working with educational institutions in ten countries, and leading an exploratory visit to francophone West Africa.
He audited an Oxford University MSc course on comparative education and education for development, becoming interested in education after violent conflict. He is a member of the Conflict and Education Research Group, based at the Education Department in Oxford, and is editor of their working papers series.
  Jeremy is interested in the development of Citizenship education in the UK, and has worked as a consultant on guidelines for school leaders on the Human Rights Act. He is a part-time consultant for leadership development programmes.

Publications

Cunningham, J.(2000)  Democratic Practice in a Secondary School in  Osler, A (ed) Citizenship and Democracy in Schools. London. Trentham

Cunningham, J (1992) Rights, responsibilities and school ethos  in Baglin-Jones, E and Jones, N  Education for Citizenship. London, Kogan Page

Cunningham, J (1991) The Human Rights Secondary School in  Starkey, H (ed) The Challenge of Human Rights Education. London, Cassell

Languages

English
French