• Ledda

  Michele Ledda

  Yorkshire Co-ordinator of Civitas’ Supplementary Schools Project

  Civitas
  

  Michele has an MA in English literature from Leeds University.  He qualified as a teacher of English in 2001 and has worked in various state and independent schools.  He now runs two subject-centred Saturday Schools for children from 5 to 15 and teaches English and maths in one of them. Michele is a co-organiser and founding member of Leeds Salon, which organises public debates on current affairs, politics, science and culture.  He has written articles on education, the curriculum and the teaching of poetry for various publications from the Guardian’s comment is Free website to spiked-online and Culture Wars.  He has also written the chapter on English teaching for The Corruption of the Curriculum (Civitas, 2007).  He has appeared several times on radio and TV, including BBC Breakfast.  With the Manifesto Club he has launched the Hands Off Poetry! petition against the ban of Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Education for Leisure from the AQA Anthology and examination syllabus, following a media panic about knife crime.  He is currently researching The Privatisation of Knowledge and the End of Liberal Education.

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