Mark Charman
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Mark is a qualified teacher. In 2007, his pupils earned international recognition when they followed Gandhian principles, campaigning against modern slavery.
This included them holding audience, by invite at The Home Office with MPs from the British and European Parliaments. The children also gave up their names for 26 days, boycotted chocolate, and worked with opinion makers BBC World, News 24, Newsnight, Today, and CBBC News.
The children's approach was presented in the House of Lords as exemplary to all schools and they received a National Humanitarian Award from the British Red Cross. Their efforts were commended by the Prime Minister of Great Britain, the Archbishop of the West Indies and The Gandhi Foundation of the USA.
Mark works in primary and secodary schools and for private contractors and more recently, presented a PSHCE campaign on a tour of schools around the UK and Ireland for the European Commission.
He later
joined The
Children's Company making niche children's programming such as 'Ripley
and Scuff' which won the BAFTA Award for Best Pre-School Series in 2003.
Other
Television Production Credits include:
The
Brit Awards
ITV1
Music
of the Millennium
Channel 4
The
Sunday Politics Programme
GMTV
Food
and Drink
BBC2
Girls
On Top
BBC1
The
International Indian Film Awards
ITV1
Christmas
Glory
ITV1
The
Pepsi Chart
Channel 5
The
Rottentrolls
ITV1
Metroland
ITV1
Mark Charman runs the group, 21st Century Philosophers, set up to promote philosophical thinking skills to young people. Check out the website / e-scrapbook of East London members' philosophical insights here.
Mark also speaks at conferences about concepts he has developed in the discipline of Philosophy for Children and trains other practitioners in schools throughout the world.
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used with kind permission of The Children's Company Ltd.
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Children's Company