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. He is radical in insisting on the overriding need to question and subvert the external examination systems that now cripple education (and to raise standards by other means), conservative in asserting with Polanyi that an individual’s or a ...