Author: Cook, H. Caldwell
Title: The Play Way: An Essay in Educational Method
Description: Heinemann, London, 1931. Eigth Impression, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Prefaces, Note, Contents list & list of Illustrations to front; colour frontis.; title page in red & black with smal b/w. illustration of playing boys in the eighteenth century. Caldwell Cook served as the English master at the Perse School in Cambridge from 1911–1915 and 1919–1933. Caldwell Cook started writing this book in 1914. He is a proponent of allowing "the boys" to learn by themselves. In his own practice at Perse School he made abundant use of theatre using drama to teach English & building a room, called 'the Mummery', in his school, based on an Elizabethan theatre, and where students improvised plays based on dramatic literature. This idea had been used and publicised by Harriet Finlay-Johnson. He called this method the "play-way". The Play Way, the book, argued that learning came from experience doing instead of from listening and reading: "The natural means of study in youth is play." Compared to the conditions in some of the other schools of the period it must have been a delight to be educated under this regime. His book also provides an interesting prelude to A. S. Neill whose more radical approach to childhood and play can be read in Summerhill. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xvi + 366. Fading to spine colour. pencilled notes & quotes from other books to fep with signature of C. A. Scrimgeour who was active in the Cambridge branch of the Workers Education Association.. Gilt titles spine, black titles front cover, blind-stamped publishers device to rar cover. Red cloth; illustrated by b/w. drawings in the text with colour & b/w. photo's. & fold-out plan to rear. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; Child Centred Education; Perse School; Cambridge; Britain/UK; 1900-1920; Education. Inventory No: 4797.

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