Harold Rosen (educationalist)

Harold Rosen (25 June 1919 – 31 July 2008) was an American-born British educationalist who lived in the UK for most of his life. His particular field was teaching English, and he eventually became an academic at the Institute of Education, part of London University.

In his youth, following the lead of his mother and grandfather, Rosen was a communist activist. After World War II, he became an English teacher and later a teacher trainer. He became a major figure in left-wing thinking in education after leaving the Communist Party in 1957. In the 1960s and 1970s, he played an important part in debates and developments in the fields of language teaching and primary education.