Ian Robinson (rationalist)
Ian Robinson (born 18 November 1940 in Melbourne, Australia) is President Emeritus of the Rationalist Society of Australia and immediate past Chairman of the Rationalist Association of Australia.
He was educated at Ivanhoe Grammar School and the University of Melbourne where he graduated with honours in Philosophy. Subsequently he has been a tutor in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, a lecturer in Philosophy of Education at Coburg Teachers' College, leader of the Curriculum Project Team (Primary) for the Victoria Ministry of Education and Manager of the Music and Writing Department at Chisholm Institute, from which he retired in 2010.
He has been Editor of Farrago, MUM, National U, Chalkface and the Australian Rationalist, and written many articles and books. His fantasy story "The Crypt of Fleeting Hope" was published by Penguin.
He has acted in and directed a number of plays at La Mama and the Pram Factory theatres in Melbourne, served as president of the Melbourne Writers' Theatre and was theatre critic for the National Times. He is married to actress Maggie Millar.
"Marijuana and Society", the Australian Rationalist, Vol. 1, No. 5, 1970.
"Ivan Illich and Education", Part 1, the Australian Rationalist, Vol. 3, No. 2, December, 1973.
"Ivan Illich and Education", Part 2, the Australian Rationalist, Vol. 4, No. 1, February, 1974.
Weekly theatre reviews. The National Times. July, 1974-July, 1977.
"Everything I'm afraid you've been teaching children and haven't wanted to know about", Curriculum and Research Bulletin, Vol. X, No. 3, August. 1975.
The Primary School Curriculum: A Manual for Victorian Schools, Education Department of Victoria, 1979, (principal author).
"Challenging sex-role stereotypes", Chalkface, Vol. 3, No. 1, April, 1983.
Key Group: Empowering Teachers to Change, Melbourne, BLIPS, 1987, (with Nick Alexopoulos).
Exploring Mathematics in Classrooms, Melbourne, Ministry of Education, 1987. (with Nick Alexopoulos)
"Language and Mathematics: The Experience of EMIC and Key Group", in Robert Hunting (ed), Language Issues in Learning and Teaching Mathematics, Papers from a Conference on the theme "What can recent work on language learning contribute to the teaching of mathematics?" La Trobe University, 1988.
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