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) and Non-conformist churches, teacher training college, in 1978."Distinctive or Divisive? The Role of Church Schools."

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: King's College London, Hertford. Hockerill Educational Foundation 2001

Objects

The foundation's purpose is to advance

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and

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, specifically but not exclusively in relation to religious education.

Hockerill Lectures

The Hockerill Lectures are delivered on an annual basis. The lectures are published annually and in ten-year collections. * 1980 John Rae, ''What should be the aims of religious education?'' * 1981 Priscilla Chadwick, ''Religious education - an unresolved tension'' * 1982

Richard Harries Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Profes ...

26 November ''Religious education and English literature'' * 1983 John V Taylor ''The importance of not solving the problem'' * 1984 Robert A. K. Runcie ''Morality in Education'' * 1985 Robert Waddington ''The unknown, remembered gate : notes towards a pilgrim model of Christian education'' * 1986 Mary Hall, ''Education through Encounter - a bridge quite near'' * 1987

Shirley Williams Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, (' Catlin; 27 July 1930 – 12 April 2021) was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from ...

, ''Education on the rack'' * 1988

Clifford Longley Clifford Longley is an English journalist and author. Early life Clifford Longley was educated at the Trinity School of John Whitgift in Croydon. He graduated from the University of Southampton. Career Longley was a journalist for ''The Times'' ...

, ''Time for a fresh vision'' * 1989 Brian Gates ''The National Curriculum and Values in Education'' * 1990 David H. Hargreaves ''The Future of Teacher Education'' * 1991

Janet Trotter Dame Janet Olive Trotter (born 29 October 1943) is an academic and administrator in higher education; she helped found the University of Gloucestershire in 2001, becoming its first Vice-Chancellor in the same year. She lives in Cheltenham. Caree ...

''What is the role of the church colleges in the 1990s?'' * 1992 John Polkinghorne 20 November 1992 '' A World We Can Understand and Live In'' * 1993

John M. Hull John Martin Hull (22 April 1935 – 28 July 2015) was Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at the University of Birmingham. He was the author of a number of books and many articles in the fields of religious education, practical theology an ...

, ''The Place of Christianity in the Curriculum: The Theology of the Department for Education.'' * 1994 Tim Brighouse, 18 November, ''What is and what should be : a vision for the education service'' * 1995

Peter Toyne Peter Howard Toyne (born 25 January 1946) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2006, representing the rural electorate of Stuart. He served as Attorney-Gen ...

, ''Education for citizenship at the Millennium'' * 1996 Jack G. Priestley, 15 November, ''Spirituality in the Curriculum'' - Hockerill Lecture 1996, Hockerill Educational Foundation, Essex * 1997 Edward C Wragg, School of Education, University of Exeter - ''If You Were The Next Millennium Would You Bother to Turn Up?'' *:6:15 pm Friday 21 November 1997, New Theatre, King's College, London. Followed by tea and biscuits in the Council Room. * 1998 Christopher William Herbert ''When the Ice Breaks and the Penny Drops: Truth, Education and God'' * 1999

Stewart Sutherland Stewart Ross Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, (25 February 1941 – 29 January 2018) was a Scottish academic and public servant and one of Britain's most distinguished philosophers of religion. He sat as a crossbencher in the House of L ...

, ''From here to eternity- education sub specie aeternitatis'' * 2000 Nicola Slee, ''A Subject in her own Right, the Religious Education of Women and Girls'' * 2001

: ''Distinctive or Divisive? The Role of Church Schools.'' King's College London,

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, 16 November 2001 * 2002 Peter Vardy - ''A philosophical approach to religious education and the search for the truth.''

References

External links

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