Dr. Alan Thomas

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  www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/2008/05/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/21/2008  

  By Jane Lowe and Alan Thomas
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  Dr Alan Thomas has researched home education extensively in the U.K. and Australia.He is a visiting fellow at the Institute of Education, University of London and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.He will be in Australia next year for our national home education conference and this book as well as his original Educating Children At Home and a new book will all be available for sale at each venue.
  
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  www.northantshe.org.uk/HEintheNews/AClassoftheirOwn.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/17/2005    Last Visited: 3/7/2007  

  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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  www.home-ed.vic.edu.au/1996/11/ - [Cached Version]
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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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  www.northantshe.org.uk/HEintheNews/SchoolsOutForever.ht - [Cached Version]
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  But Alan Thomas, of the Institute of Education, disagrees."Different approaches work in different settings," he says.

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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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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 9/27/2007  

  ... 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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  Dr Alan Thomas,

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  Children Educated at Home Dont Learn Like Those in... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/24/1996    Last Visited: 1/31/2005  

  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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  Robyn Williams: Alan Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Northern Territory in Darwin.

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  Educating Children At Home - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/22/2006    Last Visited: 9/28/2008  

  By: Alan Thomas*
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  Alan Thomas has carried out the first major investigation into how parents go about the day-to-day task of educating their children at home.His findings, based on a detailed analysis of learning in a hundred families in Britain and Australia, have profound implications for the wider educational community.
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  * Dr. Thomas is Visiting Fellow at the University of London Institute of Education.The research for the book was undertaken whilst he was a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia.He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
  
  Final chapter of the book may be read here.

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  Home Education Network » Home sweet school - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/6/2006    Last Visited: 1/17/2007  

  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 100 home-educating families in Australia and Britain.He is now a visiting fellow at the University of London, Institute of Education.
  
  He says none of us are formally taught the essential skills we learn from infancy: speech, basic literacy and numeracy.And while he does not wish to be seen as an advocate, he concedes, "There is no scientific basis whatsoever for the almost universal assumption that this traditional means of educating children (mainstream schooling) is essential if they are to progress after reaching school age.

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