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 Lyn
Tett, Professor of Community Education and Lifelong Learning
Moray House School
of Education, University of Edinburgh
Patersons Land, Holyrood Road, Edinburgh EH8 8AQ
0131 651 6113
Lyn Tett is Professor of Community Education and Lifelong Learning
at the Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. She
previously worked as Assistant Director of the Scottish Community Education
Centre in Edinburgh and as a community education practitioner in Argyll.
Lyn's research interests lie within the broad area of community education
and lifelong learning. Her 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 the action that might
be taken to promote social inclusion. The research has focussed on the following:
a) The cultural and class 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;
b) 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;
c) 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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Current Research Projects
'Developing an adult literacy and numeracy curriculum',
January 03 to December 04. Funder, Communities Scotland (with SFEU)
Evaluation of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Strategy', July
03 to June 05. Funder Scottish Executive (joint with Glasgow University)
Integrated Community Schools Project Evaluation, April 04 to March
05, Funder, Fife Council
Recent
Publications
Tett, L. (2003), 'Adult education, women and health in socially
excluded communities' in AERC Proceedings. The 44th Adult
Education Research Conference, San Francisco, CA: San Francisco State University.
Winner of the 2003 AERC Cunningham award.
Tett, L. (2002) Community
Education, Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion, Edinburgh: Dunedin
Academic Press
Tett, L. (2003), Working in Partnership, Leicester: NIACE
Tett, L.,
Crowther, J. and O'Hara P. (2003) 'Collaborative
partnerships in community education' Journal of Education
Policy,
18 (1) pp. 37-51
Smith, M. and Tett, L. (2003) New Community Schools
and pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, in
Scottish Educational
Review, 34 (2) pp. 151-162
Tett, L. (2004) 'Parents and school
communities in Japan and Scotland: contrasts in policy and practice
in primary schools' in
International Journal of Lifelong Education, 23 (3), 259-273
Tett, L.
(2004) 'Mature working class students in an 'elite' university:
discourses of risk, choice and exclusion' in Studies in the Education
of Adults
Tett, L. (2004) 'Learning and literacies: telling stories
and writing lives' in SCUTREA proceedings 2004
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