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Prof

Lyn Yates

Honorary
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Research methodologies and practices in education
Education policy.
social sciences
education & educational research
sociology
education
knowledge
curriculum
policy
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Prof

Lyn Yates

 
Division
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
 
Primary Interest
Australian education policy and practice; Sociology of education; Gender aspects of education; History and philosophy of education; Curriculum theory
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Projects

Displaying the 8 most recent projects from 8 for Lyn Yates.

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Investigating literary knowledge in the making of English teachers.

This project aims to create new understanding of the role of literary knowledge within subject English. English education is mandated in Aus..

2016 - 2021
Active
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Women in the scientific research workforce: Identifying and sustaining the diversity advantage

This project, anchored in the strategically important fields of biomedical research and chemistry related industries, will use longitudinal ..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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Women in the scientific research workforce: Identifying and sustaining the diversity advantage

This project, anchored in the strategically important fields of biomedical research and chemistry related industries, will use longitudinal ..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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Knowledge Building in schooling and higher education: policy strategies and effects

Should school and university programs in Australia emphasise learning outcomes and competencies, or maintain a high subject-based focus? Thi..

2011 - 2015
Completed
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A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF HOW TRAUMA AND CHRONIC ILLNESS IMPACT ON SCHOOLING. IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY

School connectedness and retention is an established key to both immediate and long-term health, academic and life outcomes. Young people wi..

2006 - 2009
Completed
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING RESEARCH PANEL

2006 - 2008
Completed
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A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY INVESTIGATION OF HOW TRAUMA AND CHRONIC ILLNESS IMPACT ON SCHOOLING. IDENTITY AND SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY

School connectedness and retention is an established key to both immediate and long-term health, academic and life outcomes. Young people wi..

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School knowledge, working knowledge and the knowing subject: a review of state curriculum policies 1975-2005

Schooling is a central institution for forming the knowledge, workers and citizens of Australia's future, and this is a period of widespread..

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Projects

Project Types

7

Research Grant

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Research Contracts

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 10 most recent scholarly works from 121 for Lyn Yates.

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School English, literature and the knowledge-base question

Lyn Yates, Larissa McLean Davies, Lucy Buzacott, Brenton Doecke, Philip Mead, Wayne Sawyer

Journal article  |  2019  |  CURRICULUM JOURNAL

This article takes up questions about knowledge and the school curriculum with respect to literary studies within subject English...

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The curriculum conversation in Australia: Review Essay of The Australian Curriculum: promises, problems and possibilities, ed. Alan Reid and Deborah Price (ACSA, Canberra 2018).

L Yates

Journal article  |  2018  |  Curriculum Perspectives

This essay discusses a new book on the Australian Curriculum (AC), edited by Alan Reid and Deborah Price. The book included twenty..

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Regenerating curriculum inquiry in Australia: some thoughts on this agenda

L Yates

Journal article  |  2018  |  Curriculum Perspectives

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Comparison and the limits of comparison in working toward non-sexist education

L Yates

Book Chapter  |  2018

This chapter shows how new comparisons relating to gender have shaped cross-cultural comparative research as well as being shaped ..

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Introduction

M Nerland, L Yates, P Maassen

Book  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

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From Disciplinary Excellence to Interdisciplinary Collaboration: How Australian Academics Negotiate Competing Knowledge Agendas

Lyn Yates, Peter Woelert, Victoria Millar, Kate O'Connor

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

This chapter draws on research with historians and physicists to elucidate a bottom-up perspective on two knowledge agendas within..

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Reconfiguring Knowledge in Higher Education

Book  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

Knowledge is now central to national economic competitiveness and to socio-economic endeavours concerned with inequalities and soc..

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Becoming a good education researcher

L Yates

Book Chapter  |  2018

This book invites us to think about the value and uses of philosophy and theory in education research, and also to think specifica..

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Reconfiguring Knowledge in Higher Education Introduction

Monika Nerland, Lyn Yates, Peter Maassen

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Higher Education Dynamics

The chapters in this book address higher education as a key knowledge institution. The focus is especially on changes in the condi..

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'"Making" and "taking" problems: The curriculum field and Michael Young'

L Yates

Book Chapter  |  2018

Curriculum has for a long time been a lively area of inquiry and debate in Australia, but the first establishment of a designated ..

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Curriculum and Pedagogy
Schools and Learning Environments
Teaching and Curriculum
Education Policy, Sociology and Philosophy
Specialist Studies in Education
Education Systems
Expanding Knowledge
Learner and Learning
Other Education and Training
Policy and Administration

News

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The diversity drain

Lyn Yates

Australia’s ability to innovate in science is at risk as more and more women are driven out of research roles, according to a new University..

September 23, 2015
pursuit Article
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Mining young minds: the challenges of private interests and education

Lyn Yates

Allowing mining companies to help educate children is not without benefits, but it is problematic. Mining image from www.shutterstock.comThe..

February 14, 2013
conversation Article

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Honours, Awards and Fellowships

2018

University of Melbourne
2016

Honorary Life Member

Australian Association for Research in Education
2016

Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor

University of Melbourne
2016

University of Melbourne
1999

Filosofie Hedersdoktor (Honorary Doctorate)

University of Umea Sweden
2009

FASSA - Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

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Awards

Credentials

Positions

Honorary

Melbourne Graduate School of Education

Member

British Educational Research Association

Member

European Education Research Association

Executive Member

Australian Curriculum Studies Association

Education

Doctor of Philosophy

La Trobe University

Master of Education

University of Bristol

Master of Arts (with honours)

University of Melbourne

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

University of Melbourne

Links

International Linkages

University of Toronto

Canada

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

University of Oslo

Norway

Umea University

Sweden