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Short biography
- John Martin Hull was born in 1935 in Corryong, in the State of Victoria in Australia. After the Melbourne High School he got a general Degree in English, History and French from the University of Melbourne and studied there from 1953 till 1955. In 1956 he was trained as a specialist secondary teacher of religious education in the School of Education, and from 1957 till 1958 he did a two years part-time study in the psychology and philosophy of education. In 1959 he moved to Britain, and till 1962 studied theology at Cambridge University. From 1964 till 1970 he worked as a part-time researcher at the University of London and the University of Birmingham, and defended his Ph. D. thesis in 1970 in Birmingham. - In respect with the positions he held, the following information might be relevant. From 1957 till 1959 he was a teacher a Grammar School in Melbourne; from 1962-1966 he was Head of the Religious Department of a Grammar school in Croydon; from 1966 till 1968 he was Lecturer in Divinity at the Free Church sponsored Westhill College of Education in Birmingham. From 1968, till he got the status of professor emeritus in 2002 he was appointed at the School of Education in the Faculty of Education of the University of Birmingham. In 1989 he was appointed as Professor of Religious Education. This personal chair was the first in Religious Education made by a university in Britain. From 1990 till 1993 he acted as Dean of the Faculty of Education and Continuing Studies. In September 2004 Hull was appointed as Honorary Professor in Practical Theology at the Queen’s Foundation For Ecumenical Theological Education in Birmingham. - The quality of his work was broadly noticed and was highly appreciated. Only three indices for this fact will be given here. In 1991 John Hull was granted the prestigious William Rainey Harper Award from the international Religious Education Association for his work in the field of Religious Education. In 1995 he received in Frankfurt an honorary doctorate in Theology from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt for his achievements in the field of practical theology, and his honorary supervisor then was Professor Hans-Günter Heimbrock. As was said above, in 2005 he again received an honorary doctorate but now in Education from VU University Amsterdam - In 1980 John Hull became fully blind, but has continued his work and contributions up till now at the highest level of achievement, also in national and international organizations.
John Hull en de auteurs van ‘Religious Education as Encounter’, tijdens de afsluitende sessie van het symposium ter gelegenheid van zijn eredoctoraat. Klik op de foto voor een grote afbeelding.
• Het bovenstaande tekstfragment is ontleend aan de meeromvattende introductie van Siebren Miedema in: ‘Religious Education as Encounter´.
• Link naar de website van professor John Hull.
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