Ethos Education Winter 2012/3 (Issue 6) | Page 4

positive education for the future Contributors: Dr Andrew Peterson is Reader in Civic and Moral Education at Canterbury Christ Church University. He teaches on a range of programmes, including the PGCE 11-18 Citizenship course. He works with a number of schools in the field of civic education, and has published widely in the fields of pupils’ civic and moral learning. He manages the CitizED website (www.citized.info) and will shortly be leaving the University to take up a new post at the University of South Australia, Adelaide. editorial Marguerite Heath taught in Primary Schools in London and was a deputy headteacher in Brent before becoming headteacher of two schools in Kent, serving over 16 years in this capacity. She has also been an adviser to headteachers and worked in Initial Teacher Training at Canterbury Christ Church University. Marguerite conceived and developed Go-Givers (www.gogivers.org) for the Citizenship Foundation, and remains as Programme Director. She has also developed a set of learning materials entitled ‘Get on with the Game’ for the Premier League, and is the author of two books ‘Prejudice’ and ‘War and Conflict’. in the Headlines series published by A & C Black. Andrew B. Morris is the former Director of the Centre for Christian Education and Senior Research Fellow at Liverpool Hope University. He has been involved in Catholic education for over forty years, twenty-five of them teaching in secondary schools. He has been a headteacher, chairman of governors of both primary and secondary Catholic schools, a member of several School Organisation Committees and Deputy Director of Schools of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. His academic specialism is in the field of faith-based education and school leadership. He is an Associate of the National Institute for Christian Education Research at Canterbury Christ Church University and of the Maryvale Catholic Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Birmingham, where he acts also as an occasional book reviewer for the ‘Sower’ magazine. He has worked in collaboration with the Office for Standards in Education over a number of years to publish a series of papers on the academic standards and attainment of pupils in Catholic sector schools in England. Professor Mick Waters works with the schools in the Black Country Challenge in raising standards in the West Midlands. Mick is an Honorary Fellow of the College of Teachers. He is a patron of Heads, Teachers and Industry (HTI), which seeks ways to build reciprocal understanding between sectors, and a Trustee of the Children’s University which offers a range of learning opportunities beyond the school environment. Before joining QCA, Mick was Chief Education Officer for the City of Manchester. In a challenging education environment schools worked hard to break the cycle of urban deprivation, promoting a wide and rich curriculum and encouraging all learners to 2 achieve as much as possible. Mick believes in being close to teachers, children and schools, and is often to be found in the classroom working with children. He has written books on the curriculum, teaching and learning, and management, as well as making presentations at numerous national and international conferences. Kit Thorne is currently Principal Adviser Development in Sheffield Local Authority, responsible for commissioning, brokering and coordinating CPD provision for all schools and settings in the City. The CPD provision focuses on quality first teaching and excellence in leadership. He has worked in Oldham and Leicestershire as an adviser, and trained initially as a teacher of French and German, working subsequently in North Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire schools. Since 2001, under the school improvement project banner in Oldham and now in Sheffield, Kit has been responsible for helping schools to engage with P4C. He is a qualified Level 1 trainer. ethos is edited by: David Rowse To contact the editor or for information on how to contribute to future editions please contact: David Rowse, Editor, Ethos The Collegiate Centre for Values Education for Life, College House, Hockley Hill, Birmingham, B18 5AQ Telephone: Email: Website: 0121 523 0222 [email protected] www.vefl.org.uk Produced in association with: © David Rowse Cover Image: © Claire Lomas @ FrameRate Creative All design work: Claire Lomas @ FrameRate Creative [email protected] www.frameratecreative.co.uk The demystification of social, moral, s \