Dr. Robbie Case - Personally

Dr. Case met his wife Nancy Link at OISE. From a previous marriage, Dr. Case had daughter Rebecca, and with Dr. Link a son and daughter, Jonathan and Sarah. Dr. Case valued his children's input very highly when writing his books. Perhaps it was the extended observation of and discussions with his own children that gave Dr. Case the "uncanny insight" Dr. Walker noticed.

Dr. Case's own children were very much a part of his 1996 book, The Role of Central Conceptual Structures in Development of Children's Thoughts. In the fashion that had come to be expected from him, Robbie's book changed the face of education once more, proposing that children cannot learn concepts until the "central conceptual structure" was in place, which did not happen until a set developmental stage. This explained in a new way why very young children cannot process abstraction.