Playing and Exploring - Education Through the Discovery of Order

First published in 1985, Playing and Exploring draws on many disciplines in order to formulate a new way of thinking about the nature and power of education. As so often with creative thinkers, Robin Hodgkin's work is at once subversive and conservative.

List of contents

Introduction 1. New ground 2. Education - making space for instruction 3. Things for use and things for meaning: tools and symbols 4. Competence 5. The four roles of a teacher 6. Embodied form 7. Many-levelled theory 8. Divided brain, uniting mind 9. Words and images 10. Success for all children Postscript: On human talents

About the author

R.A. Hodgkin (1916-2013) was educationalist, Quaker and great mountaineer. He was principal of the Sudan Institute of Education from 1949-55; headmaster of Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire from 1955-67, and a Lecturer in the Oxford University Department of Education from 1969-77. From 1977-80, he was Chairman of the Mount Everest Foundation. He read widely in psychology, biology, anthropology and theology, and brought their lessons to bear on the curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: R.a. Hodgkin, Hodgkin R.A.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.10.2025
• EAN: 9781041124351
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4112435-1
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Educational Psychology, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Multicultural Education, Educational psychology, teacher training, Secondary Schools, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Primary & middle schools, Multicultural education, Primary and middle schools, Educational strategies and policy