Hockerill Educational Foundation Explained

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. Book: Tony Eaude. Children's Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development: Primary and Early Years. limited. 4 January 2008. Learning Matters. 978-1-84445-310-8. 110.
3. Book: John Elliott (editor). Reconstructing Teacher Education . 27 April 2012. Taylor & Francis. 978-1-136-45382-3. 19.
4. Comment. 81. October 1994. Comment 081 October 1994. 15.
5. Invitation. New Theatre, King's College, London. 1997.
6. Web site: Lords Hansard text for 17 Jun 2002 (220617-24).