Gillian Thomas
Founder, Telling research
Gillian Thomas is a fully trained qualitative specialist with over seven years experience in one-to-one interviewing, focus group facilitation and ethnographic fieldwork. She is experienced in a wide range of innovative research methods including in-home ethnographic studies and large public engagement events.
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- nursery or prison? The childcare revolution has brought the UK a whole new collection of purpose built buildings for early years education and childcare. But we've come a long way from the little village hall... from : gillianthomas 26th February 2003
- Beautiful schools check out the schoolworks game which guides kids round a virtual school, helping them to improve things along the way. from : gillianthomas 28th February 2003
- Quiet kids According to this article in the Guardian (click here to read), children are not learning to talk as early as they used to. The usual culprits of 'too much television' and 'too busy parents' are blamed.But how much is this really the case? Might other factors, such as smaller family size, or more transient carer relationships also play a part? And is it really true that children are talking later. Might it also be that expectations of their performance in schools is higher, or even that... from : gillianthomas 7th March 2003
- From astrology to algebra Demos are involved in a pilot study in schools of a online portal which gives teachers access to interactive online materials from a variety of free and commercial providers. In case you couldn't work out how the test worked, the clue is that the symbols changes each time. To find out how the sum works, it is possible to use algebra.(10x + y) - (x + y) = Z10x + y - x - y = Z9x = THE ANSWER!So the symbols for multiples of nine will all be the same.Fun exercises like this have the potential to... from : gillianthomas 27th March 2003
- Teachers need teaching too Isn't it funny that teachers spend all day, every day in a learning establishment, but get very little time to learn themselves? This article (registration required - but easy!) argues that "we cannot expect teachers to create a vigorous community of learners among students if they have no parallel community to nourish themselves". The authors describe learning schemes that enable teachers to learn more about pedagogy as well as their subject areas. from : gillianthomas 14th May 2003
- Tug of love and money The government seems to be moving towards favouring funding early years, though of course lots of funding goes into programmes for older children, such as Connexions. The positions that seemed to be emerging from various participants in response to this either/or choice can be crudely summarised as below:More money all round (but saying this for years, and not completely realistic)In the short term focus on teenagers, but move to early years in the longer termFocus on teenage mothers which... from : gillianthomas 2nd September 2003