Gordon Sturrock obituary

My husband, Gordon Sturrock, who has died aged 71, was an original thinker whose ideas shaped the theory and practice of children’s playwork, a vocation that grew out of the UK adventure playground movement.

He had a varied career, managing adventure playgrounds in London from 1976 to 1985 and then, from 1985 to 1990, running his own playground equipment business, Interplay Resources. In 1990 he set up The Play Practice, a consultancy to the play and leisure industry, which he ran while also acting as course leader in playwork and youth studies at the University of East London from 1999 to 2009.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2YIw5Tu