Rob Walker

University of East Anglia | UEA · Centre for Applied Research in Education

Rob Walker connects early experiences with authority to his view of himself as an observant outsider who uses associated perspectives and case study methods to enhance his evaluation practices and to invite others to reflect on ways to build on their positives. See the interview document here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/ev.2030...

Many discussions about educational technologies reflect a belief that the right approach or use of technology which transform or revolutionalise education. This chapter explores the idea that classrooms are, in fact, very difficult to transform. After reflecting upon some key phases in the history of schools, technologies in the UK, the chapter pro...

Recent attempts to use Flanders' FIAC system to observe teacher-pupil interactions in primary school classrooms had indicated severe limitations in this approach. The method is useful in a formal situation, but it contains an implicit ‘Theory of instruction.’ If this technique is applied to those informal classrooms whether primary or secondary, in...

During problem-based learning (PBL), students brainstorm on a problem, generate hypotheses and formulate learning objectives. Certain verbal and non-verbal expressions are used by students in response to specific learning issues. This study examines the use of these expressions as indices of the learning taking place and the tutors' threshold to in...

This paper presents a European Community supported project which investigated whether the use of electronic and mobile technologies in the hands of young learners might engage them in learning activities and start to change their attitudes towards learning. The mLearning system was implemented in a Europe‐wide network of 14 schools with over 500 st...

This paper reports a small number of interviews with young people in Athens about their use of internet chat rooms as a means of meeting people. In the last few years there has been a growing public (adult) concern about the dangers of socialising with strangers in chat rooms, but what do the users themselves think about the risks involved, and wha...

Undaunted by theoretical debates which suggest the impossibility of realising the aspiration, case study research is essentially concerned with providing credible representations of reality. Case studies aim to give the reader a sense of 'being there'; whether this means seeing a classroom through the eyes of a child, a school through the eyes of a...

Central to service-learning is the belief that people learn from the experience of being placed in unfamiliar settings and expected to develop some degree of competency. In such circumstances the construction of narrative is a key learning process. We do not just ‘learn’ in an abstracted way; we learn from someone, from doing things (particularly f...

In this paper we look at the educational assumptions that underlie the notion of learning from experience and at the specific circumstance of teaching (participatory) action research in the context of higher education. We take the view that ‘learning from experience’ is not merely a psychological mechanism, but a process of socialisation of its own...

This paper examines the use of First Class conferencing software to create a virtual culture among research students and as a vehicle for supervision and advising. Topics discussed include: computer-mediated communication and research; entry to cyberculture, i.e., research students' induction into the research community; supervision and the Interne...

Outlines the background and structure of the U.K./Australia Fellowships Scheme for Teachers of Science. Summarizes some of the issues articulated by the fellows, hosts, and organizers. Presents a qualitative cost/benefit analysis of the Fellowships Scheme. (Author/JRH)

Have you ever thought research is boring? This book is dedicated to the notion that social research should become an integral part of the contemporary workplace. Its principle concern is with integrating different forms of qualitative research within the ambit of professional practice. It is a vital source for all who are interested in doing resear...

Evaluation is increasingly a requirement of any interventive or action programme in health, education and elsewhere. Outside the USA it has grown from being the minority interest of a few specialists to an integral concern for any specially funded project or programme. An informal survey sent out to drug educators attending two major conferences in...

At Los Alamos, an innovative approach to transmuting long-lived radioactive waste is under investigation. The concept is to use a linear proton accelerator coupled to a solid target to produce an intense neutron flux. The intense stream of neutrons can then be used to fission or transmute long-lived radionuclides to either stable or shorter-lived i...

Mutually inhibitory networks are the fundamental building blocks of many complex systems. Despite their apparent simplicity they exhibit interesting behavior. We analyze a special class of such networks and provide parameters for reliable K-winner performance. We model the network dynamics using interactive activation and compare our results to the...

A special class of mutually inhibitory networks is analyzed, and parameters for reliable K-winner performance are presented. The network dynamics are modeled using interactive activation, and results are compared with the sigmoid model. For equal external inputs, network parameters that select the units with the larger initial activations (the netw...

We have previously demonstrated that pregnancy-associated endometrial α2-globulin (α2-PEG), the human glycosylated (β-lactoglobulin homologue (HG-BLG), is quantitatively the major secretory soluble protein product of the secretory endometrium during the latter half of the menstrual cycle and decidua spongiosa of the gestational endometrium during e...

We have previously demonstrated that pregnancy-associated endometrial alpha 2-globulin (alpha 2-PEG), the human glycosylated beta-lactoglobulin homologue (HG-BLG), is quantitatively the major secretory soluble protein product of the secretory endometrium during the latter half of the menstrual cycle and decidua spongiosa of the gestational endometr...

We have previously shown that pregnancy-associated α 1 -globulin, a small molecular weight (32 kDa) insulin-like growth factor-binding protein (IGF-BP), is quantitatively the major secretory protein product of the decidualized endometrium during human pregnancy and is localized principally in the decidual cell. In the present study, employing monoc...

The molecular basis of microtubule dynamic instability is controversial, but is thought to be related to a "GTP cap." A key prediction of the GTP cap model is that the proposed labile GDP-tubulin core will rapidly dissociate if the GTP-tubulin cap is lost. We have tested this prediction by using a UV microbeam to cut the ends from elongating microt...

Endometrium from postmenopausal women with endometrial adenocarcinoma was examined immunohistochemically using a monoclonal antibody to pregnancy-associated endometrial alpha 2-globulin (alpha 2-PEG), the major secretory protein of the glandular epithelium during the late luteal phase of the menstrual cycle and early pregnancy. Specimens were obtai...

The distribution of alpha 2-PEG, a human analogue of beta-lactoglobulin, in endometrium at different phases of the cycle was determined using immunohistochemistry with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. In the epithelial cells of glands in the functional zone of the endometrium, alpha 2-PEG was first detectable from Days 19 to 21 during the mid-...

The distribution of α2-PEG, a human analogue of β-lactoglobulin, in endometrium at different phases of the cycle was determined using immunohistochemistry with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. In the epithelial cells of glands in the functional zone of the endometrium, α2-PEG was first detectable from Days 19 to 21 during the mid-luteal phase...

Theoretical and clinical evidence suggests that traditional ice water immersion is not the best therapy for heatstroke. We treated three patients with serious heatstroke using the downdraft from a light utility helicopter to dissipate heat primarily by evaporation and convection. The speed of cooling was substantially better than that reported in p...

Significant numbers of mast cells have been demonstrated histologically around the periphery of the invasive rat mammary adenocarcinoma 13672NF. The number of mast cells at microfoci along the tumour:host tissue junction was significantly greater than that found in normal mammary tissues, and few mast cells were detected within the tumour itself. M...

The design is an outline of a 3.6 Mbit digital store suitable for television signals sampled at frequencies of up to approximately 3 x color sub-carrier frequency. The design had to be flexible in order to meet a wide-range of requirements involving this type of storage. The final machine met its target specification and incorporated a comprehensiv...

Interactions between teachers and pupils in classroom situations may be studied and teaching techniques evaluated in a kind of “debriefing” if film and audiotape recordings are made synchronously during the class. In the technique described, filming is done at one frame every two seconds using two 16mm recording cameras — one with a fixed-focus len...

An observational recording system was devised to record and to replay the stream of classroom events--nonverbal events, as well as verbal. Although videotape recording/closed circuit television has been used in similar systems, the one here used selected 35mm. stills made from 16mm. film. The stills were then synchronized with tape recordings and p...

Traducción de: Doing research. A handbook for teachers El autor asume en este libro que la investigación es parte esencial del rol de los docentes, pues le permite llevar a cabo una reflexión sobre su práctica docente y sobre lo que sucede en el aula, con las consecuentes posibilidades de mejorarla. El texto estudia las principales dificultades que...

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