Hockerill Educational Foundation

The Hockerill Educational Foundation was founded on the closure of Hockerill College, a Church of England (Diocese of Rochester) and Non-conformist churches, teacher training college, in 1978. ^[1]

Objects

The foundation's purpose is to advance further and higher education, specifically but not exclusively in relation to religious education. ^[1]

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 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 ^[2]
• 1987 Shirley Williams, Education on the rack
• 1988 Clifford Longley, Time for a fresh vision
• 1989 Brian Gates The National Curriculum and Values in Education
• 1990 David H. Hargreaves The Future of Teacher Education ^[3]
• 1991 Janet Trotter 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, 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 ^[4]
• 1995 Peter Toyne, 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. ^[5]

• 1998 Christopher William Herbert When the Ice Breaks and the Penny Drops: Truth, Education and God
• 1999 Stewart Sutherland, 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 Alan Chesters, Bishop of Blackburn: Distinctive or Divisive? The Role of Church Schools. ^[6] King's College London, London, 16 November 2001
• 2002 Peter Vardy – A philosophical approach to religious education and the search for the truth.

References

1. "Distinctive or Divisive? The Role of Church Schools." Alan Chesters, Bishop of Blackburn: King's College London, Hertford. Hockerill Educational Foundation 2001
2. Tony Eaude (4 January 2008). Children's Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development: Primary and Early Years . Learning Matters. p.  110. ISBN   978-1-84445-310-8.
3. Reconstructing Teacher Education. John Elliott (editor). Taylor & Francis. 27 April 2012. p. 19. ISBN   978-1-136-45382-3.
4. "Comment 081 October 1994". Comment (81): 15. October 1994.
5. "Invitation" (Document). New Theatre, King's College, London. 1997.
6. "Lords Hansard text for 17 Jun 2002 (220617-24)".

External links

• Official website