[Inlt] [SPAM: 8.000] FW: The death of Dr Rex Walford

[Mick Healey]

I am forwarding this sad news which has just been distributed on the IGU-CGE
list.
 
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Dear Colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I am emailing you all to inform you about the
death of Dr Rex Walford.  Tragically, he was killed in a boating accident on
the evening of January 2nd, 2011, having been to dinner with long-standing
friends on an island in the River Thames, where they lived. Rex was a major
figure in UK and international geographical education, well known
particularly for his work on games and simulations in geography education,
but for much else besides.  He was a historian of geography in schools in
the UK.  He was a major influence on so many geography teachers and tutors
through his work at Cambridge University until he retired as geography
education tutor (and also in another role as Head of the Department of
Education), through his many courses and conference contributions, and
through his writing.  I have known him from 1970, when I first met him as an
undergraduate.  He has had an impact on my career, as on so many others over
the past forty years.  He had so many interests outside geographical
education, for instance in music, drama and the theatre and in motorbiking.
He will be very much missed, not least because he was such a wonderful
person, convivial, a great raconteur, just so thoughtful of others and
caring, who gave much of his time to his many interests and the people
involved in them.  It is a real sadness to convey this news to you.

Yours,
Simon

-- 
Professor Simon Catling,
Professor of Primary Education,
Honorary Secretary IGU CGE,
Research Leader, Department of Early Childhood and Primary Education,
Westminster Institute of Education,
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Oxford Brookes University,
Harcourt Hill,
Oxford
OX2 9AT
UK



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