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I was born and brought up in Derbyshire, in the English East Midlands, in a coal mining and iron making town in South Derbyshire. Many of my family were involved in iron making, and I had several vacation jobs working on the blast furnaces at Stanton Ironworks. I went to one of the few secondary technical schools available in post-war England. Here the curriculum centred on science and technology.
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Jackson, R. (2012). Religious Education and the Arts of Interpretation Revisited. In: Avest, I.t. (eds) On the Edge: (Auto)biography and Pedagogical Theories on Religious Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-175-7_6
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