Challenging Contemporary Thinking on Play

Author:   Victoria de Rijke ,  Rebecca Sinker
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
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Pages:   194
Publication Date:   06 August 2025
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Author:   Victoria de Rijke ,  Rebecca Sinker
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:  

9783031916380


ISBN 10:   3031916387
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   06 August 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Dr. Victoria de Rijke is Emerita Professor at Middlesex University, London. She has forty years experience working with Primary school teachers and children, including active engagement with artist residencies, consultancies and research projects in the creative arts, producing teaching and learning resources online. Victoria also writes and presents on the visual or performing arts and children’s literature, and is Co Editor-in-Chief of the international research journal Children’s Literature in Education. Dr Rebecca Sinker has worked in arts education and museum learning for over three decades, in large national institutions, higher education and small independent arts organisations. For 15 years she worked at the Tate Galleries in London as Senior Research Curator: Digital Learning and before this Head of Young People’s Programmes. Since 2021 Rebecca has been pursuing new projects as an independent curator, researcher and project manager, including producing an annual diverse cultural programme in Hastings, for Refugee Week, consulting on a Children’s Art Prize with the Museum of Art Pudong in China and working as Interim Business Manager at the Institute of International Visual Arts (iniva). ​Dr. Victoria de Rijke and Dr. Rebecca Sinker are two co-founding members of ‘4Play’ which works to remind arts, academic and educational audiences of the importance of play, especially when it’s dark. They have co-published on this topic from 1996 to the present, and collaborated on many arts practice and research projects such as ‘Book Burning’ (2003) ‘Dare to DADA’ (2006) ‘DisPlay: Ludic illusions & disillusions’ for Liverpool Tate Ludic Museum and ‘The Empty Box’ for Tate (2015).  

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