Lyn Tett
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Professor
Lyn Tett
Professor
of Community Education
and Lifelong Learning/Director
of Research
Dept
of Higher & Community
Education
The Moray House
School of Education,
The University of Edinburgh,
Paterson's
Land, Holyrood
Road,
Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
Scotland, UK
 Email: Lyn.Tett@ed.ac.uk
Telephone:
+44 (0) 0131 651 6113 |
[ Qualifications ]
[ Principal Interests ] [ Research
Supervision ]
[ Biographical
Note ] [ Current
and Recent Research ] [ Publications ]
Qualifications
- 1971-77: BA
(Hons) Social & Cognitive Psychology (Upper
Second), Open University
- 1981-84: Post-Graduate
Diploma in Post Compulsory Education, Open University
- 1993-95: MEd Community Education,
Heriot Watt University
Principal
Interests
| My
interests lie within the broad area of community
education and lifelong learning. My research
has involved an investigation of the factors
such as class, gender, disability that lead to
the exclusion of adults from post-compulsory
education and of the action that might be taken
to promote social inclusion. It has focussed
on three main areas. These are: |
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The cultural, class and identity factors that contribute to literacy and numeracy difficulties experienced by adults and the forms of education and learning that are most effective in empowering individuals and communities experiencing educational disadvantage; |
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An investigation of the factors that encourage or prevent access to higher education for, and retention of, educationally disadvantaged adults with a particular focus on class and gender; |
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Inter-professional
partnerships especially in the relationship between
schools and community education and the role
of parents as partners in their children's education.
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Research
Supervision
I am happy
to supervise research in the areas described above.
I currently supervise doctoral students in the following
areas:
- Adult learning in small and medium sized enterprises in Scotland
- School Choice of Northern Areas' (NAs) newly migrant Ismailis in Karachi
- Inter-relationships between the developmental needs of children, the service response to meeting these needs and the potential for change in staff roles and relationships in early years services in Scotland
- The role of literacies and physical activities provision (post-16) in reducing exclusion in Scotland
- Women postgraduate's employment in China
Biographical
Note
I studied
psychology at the Open University part time whilst
my children were young and then worked as an adult
education development officer for Argyll and Bute
Council's community education service for ten years.
After that I moved to Edinburgh to become the deputy
director of the Scottish Community Education Council
responsible for training and adult education for
5 years and then joined Moray House Institute of
Education as the Director of Community Education
in 1992. During this time I also studied part-time
for my MSc in Community Education. I became Professor
of Community Education and Lifelong Learning in 2002.
I am the Course Organiser for a number of courses
in the Community Education BA and MSc Programmes.
I am also active in the profession of Community Education
and I am a member of the Standards Council for Community
Learning and Development. I am Director of Research
for the School.
Current
and Recent Research
I am currently involved in three main areas of academic research:
I am researching a range of provision and practice for adult literacy and numeracy learners with a particular focus on the factors that encourage participation and persistence. This research is a joint project with Glasgow University (Kathy Maclachlan).
I am investigating the experiences of students with HN qualifications who
entered the College of Humanities and Social Sciences with HN qualifications
in 2004 & 5
in a project called 'From Further Education to Higher Education Project' - this
research is being done with Prof Viv Cree (Social & Political Science),
Jenny Hounsell and Dr Velda McCune (Education) and Dr Hazel Christie (now Napier
University).
The professional development
of community education and community learning and development staff as a follow
up to an earlier project on developing competence in early and mid-career staff
- with Dr John Bamber, School of Education.
Publications
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