PROF. LYNDE TAN

Lynde Tan has a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Lancaster, United Kingdom.  Before joining Western Sydney University, she was a lecturer at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore where she taught a range of courses related to learning sciences and technologies to educators, namely principals, in-service and pre-service teachers. She also taught qualitative methodology courses to post-graduate students. Lynde started her career as a primary school teacher and was soon seconded to the Singapore Ministry of Education Headquarters (MOE HQ) as an Educational Technology Officer where she supported teachers in pedagogical interventions using emerging technologies. At MOE HQ, she also co-chaired committees headed by Microsoft (Singapore) and Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore to scale innovative digital practices among Singapore teachers.

Her work follows the lead of scholars who are keen to understand what people do with literacy in everyday lives and specifically, how adolescents negotiate the relationships between the dominant notion of literacy and learning in school and those they are developing outside of school. She is also interested in pedagogical issues pertinent to the use of digital media for school literacy and learning. She currently serves on the Editorial Review Boards for the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (JAAL) and E-Learning and Digital Media.