Dr. Alan Thomas

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  (Dr Alan Thomas, Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute of Education and formerly at the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia)

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  Dr Alan Thomas,

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  ... Informal learning complies with a child's natural logic, says Dr Alan Thomas, a former senior lecturer at Charles Darwin University, who completed a study of ...

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  Authors: Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
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  From the moment you read the preface you'll know that Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison understand the world of home education in general and natural learning in particular.
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  Alan, a developmental psychologist, was initially interested in individualised teaching and therefore came to study children learning at home.
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  by Alan Thomas

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  FN: Alan Thomas

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  Alan Thomas has done a study on this question.He's Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northern Territory in Darwin and his results are quite surprising.
  
  Alan Thomas: Education means schools and classrooms, and always has.Not any more.

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  Authors: Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison
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  From the moment you read the preface you'll know that Alan Thomas and Harriet Pattison understand the world of home education in general and natural learning in particular.
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  Alan, a developmental psychologist, was initially interested in individualised teaching and therefore came to study children learning at home.

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  Influence of Interface Geometry of Rubber Friction - Philip Gabriel, Dr. James Busfield and Prof. Alan Thomas, Queen Mary University of London
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  Visco-elastic Behaviour of Rubber in a Combined Torsion-Tension Test - Nutthanun Suphadon, Dr. James Busfield and Prof. Alan Thomas, Queen Mary University of London

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  (Dr Alan Thomas, Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute of Education and formerly at the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia)
  
  "We are revelling in our new-found freedom!

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  For Dr Alan Thomas, a developmental psychologist and visiting fellow at the Institute of Education, the idea that it's children who decide what to study opens up a radical way of looking at learning.However, most home-educating families begin by imitating school (one parent told me how her daughter insisted on making hall passes for her sisters).The drift into a more relaxed approach happens gradually as they gain confidence.He believes that children learn from experience in an extension of the way they did in infancy. 'They don't want neat 40-minute blocks.If you are enjoying French, what's the point of stopping at the end of the lesson?They might want to learn one subject for days, weeks.'
  
  In his experience of studying home-educated children in Britain and Australia, Thomas has concluded that there is too much panic around literacy. 'Some children don't learn to read until they are eight or nine, with no apparent disadvantage.If you leave it until they are ready it seems they catch up.Within six months they are likely to be at least at the same level as schoolchildren the same age.' Many go on to be avid readers. 'Learning is in our culture,' says Thomas, who believes that children often learn without even realising it. 'Just as very young children learn to talk, so they will learn basic maths or how to read and write.
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  Dr Alan Thomas has followed up home-educated students into adulthood and says they're as varied a set of people as ex-school pupils. 'Most have gone to university.Some have done exceptionally well.

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