After teaching in secondary schools and lecturing at Didsbury College of Education, first in History then in Religious Studies, Brenda Watson became Director of the Farmington Institute for Christian Studies in Oxford until 1988.   Subsequently, she was an Education Consultant, and is now retired. She has been concerned with these issues most of her working life, and has published books and articles on these themes. She has a special concern to try to cross boundaries between learning and real life. She lives in West Malvern, UK.