Jeremy Cunningham

Jeremy Cunningham taught for over thirty years in the UK state secondary sector, eighteen years as a headteacher. He has a strong interest in school culture, and education for active citizenship. He worked as a consultant for the programme Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa. His book ‘Conflict Transformation through School’ was published by Trentham books in 2015. It was developed from his PhD thesis for the Open University and focuses on a case study from Northern Uganda. In 2016 he spent three months in schools in Sri Lanka for research published in the journal Research in Comparative and International Education,(2018)  (jointly with Suren Ladd): ‘The role of school curriculum in sustainable peace-building: The case of Sri Lanka.’ He is currently teaching Ukrainian refugees.