Living with contradictions

John Quicke trained as a teacher and then as an educational psychologist in the late 1960s. He worked as an educational psychologist in Slough and Durham before taking up a lecturing post in the Education Department of the University of Sheffield where he subsequently became a Professor of Education. In the year 2000 he returned to his former profession and is now working as an educational psychologist for Rotherham LEA. He has written several books and numerous articles in professional and scholarly journals. His recent book A Curriculum for Life , Open University Press, was shortlisted for the Standing Conference on Studies of Education annual prize.