Over 35 years, CARE has developed and field tested a conception of Applied Research as a form of systematic critical enquiry carried out within the context of action to effect worthwhile educational change.
CARE was established in 1970, UEA providing a permanent home for the core team of the Humanities Curriculum Project, a major curriculum project of the 1960s. At that time UEA had no School of Education (and did not envisage one) and so CARE was seen as a research centre essentially engaged in external applied research projects in the education sector. CARE quickly established itself, nationally and internationally, as a centre of activity in two areas: action research and program evaluation, and added to its activities a post graduate training programme which attracted many international students.
In 1980 CARE was incorporated in the newly established School of Education, along with the Keswick Hall College of Education, a long established Norwich institution, which brought the Centre into more direct contact with teacher education and continuing professional development programmes.
The steering team member of the Centre for Applied Research in Education is Mr. Rob Walker . Read more about his curriculum vitae.