Dr. Alan Thomas

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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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  ... 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, 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, 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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  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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  Published on: 3/19/2008    Last Visited: 3/19/2008  

  FN: Alan Thomas

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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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  Published on: 3/29/2006    Last Visited: 10/27/2007  

  Dr Alan Thomas,

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  A Class of their Own - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/17/2005    Last Visited: 9/29/2008  

  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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  Centre for Materials Research: People: Prof Alan Thomas - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/23/2007    Last Visited: 11/23/2007  

  Prof Alan Thomas
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  Professor Alan Thomas is one of the country's leading research Materials Physicists.He is, and has been for many years, the UK expert in Rubbery Materials, a fact, which is, acknowledged world wide, particularly in Japan and the USA.
  
  Alan was awarded a scholarship that enabled him to attend Brasenose College, Oxford to study physics, graduating in 1948.He then accepted a position at the British (now Malaysian) Rubber Producer's Research Association, not because he had any prior interest in rubber but largely because it was the UK centre for high quality research into long chain molecular materials.When he arrived his research director Dr Ronald Rivlin suggested to him that he should study the strength of rubber.This was a formidable request to make of a 21 year-old inexperienced researcher.But he applied himself to the task and has been working with this broad aim in view ever since.
  
  He developed the theories of strength and crack growth, the basic concepts of which underpin all current work in rubbers and plastics.His original papers, produced while a young man, are still frequently mentioned in almost every branch of rubber science and engineering.His work from then to the present day is characterised by his ability to address difficult scientific and technical problems from an original point of view, work out the consequences mathematically in a simple but elegant theory, and support the conclusions by a few well designed, searching experiments.In consequence his ideas have been accepted widely and quickly and even sometimes regarded as obvious, but of course only after the pioneering work was carried out.His fundamental solutions to the real technically difficult problems of friction and wear (tyre applications), bridge and earthquake bearings have lead to life saving advances.
  
  The work of Alan Thomas has been recognised by the award of many prizes and medals in the UK, USA Europe and Malaysia.Most notable of these are the Colwyn Medal of the UK Plastics and Rubber Institute and the Charles Goodyear Medal of the American Chemical Society awarded for the first time to a non-US citizen.His employers MRPRA, received the Prince Philip award in 1990 for his pioneering work on earthquake bearings.He is also much sought after world-wide, as an industrial consultant because of his ability to see to the bones of, and solve real technological problems.
  
  He has been a visiting Professor in the Materials Department at Queen Mary since 1974, continues to supervise PhD students in the rubber research group, give invited papers at international conferences and to publish quality papers in international journals.

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