Teachers as Hope Generators: Discovering Profession-as-Vocation in a Teacher Education Department

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The Leitmotiv for my book comes from Howard Thurman (1899–1981): “Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. And do it, because the world needs people who have come alive” (emphasis added).

After I created this concept, I discovered it was used before by Odo Marquard (1991, 98).

A similar approach can be found in the Festschrift for Siebren Miedema, in which colleagues were invited to describe their professional and spiritual journey in the “making of”—the development and interpretation—of their own religious-educational theories (ter Avest 2012).

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Bert Roebben

Dr. Hubertus (Bert) Roebben is Professor of Religious Education in the Faculty of Humanities and Theology at TU Dortmund University (Germany). In 2016 he is President-Elect and Program Chair of the Religious Education Association. E-mail: [email protected]