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eD 3 Called to Teach: Teaching as a Mission Vocation

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Recovery of a sense of missional vocation to teaching is vital. This thoughtful study looks at the challenges, including secular assumptions about neutrality, inclusion and professionalism, and sets out a way forward in seeing teaching as a positive, Christian transformative influence in society.

Potential audience

Teachers, headteachers, governors, church members, Christian schools workers, youth workers, Diocesan Education Officers

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Author: Trevor Cooling

Trevor Cooling is Director of the National Institute for Christian Education Research at Canterbury Christ Church University, and works with the'Transforming Lives' Project, an interdenominational initiative that promotes teaching as a Christian vocation. He has been active in education for over 30 years as a teacher, a head of RE, a chief executive of a Christian education charity, a university lecturer and a diocesan schools adviser. He has a PhD in Religious Education, though his first degree is in biology.

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