Titus Alexander is founder of Democracy Matters, the alliance for learning practical politics, and author of Pedagogy of Power: Learning for Democracy (Institute of Education Press 2016), the first textbook for teaching practical political skills. He is developing an advanced apprenticeship in Leading Social Change, to start in 2018. Titus has worked on education for change with local communities across the UK, as director of learning with The Scarman Trust. He was a local government officer, schools inspector and grassroots activist for many years. Other publications include Campaigning is OK!,  Learning Power (Campaign for Learning 2007),  Family Learning: foundation of effective education (Demos 1997), Citizenship Schools: a practical guide to education for citizenship and personal develop, and Unravelling Global Apartheid: An overview of world politics (Polity 1996).