Mrs Jean Dourneen

Research summary

• Learning through talk
• How post-16 students learn
• reading multimodal texts
• transforming the learning of PGCE students
• using video as a research tool.

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Biography

Jean Dourneen joined the PGCE English team at the graduate School of Education in September 2006, having taught for 27 years in secondary schools in Dorset, North Somerset and Somerset. 

She was a member of the QCA Creativity in English Working Party; trialled and wrote schemes of work for their publication Giving a Voice: speaking and listening activities for Key Stage Three and in May 2006 took part in a review of A Level English Literature standards. 

Since joining the Graduate School of Education, Jean has worked closely with the other PGCE English University Tutors to continue to develop this ...

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Selected publications

• Dourneen, J 2013, ‘It ain't what you say, it's the way that you say it: The role of pragmatics in A Level English Language students' learning conversations during collaborative writing using a computer’. English in Education, vol 47., pp. 33-48
• Dourneen, J 2010, ‘Setting free the spirit of English in the Brecon Beacons: The value of learning outside the classroom’. English in Education, vol 44., pp. 59 - 75

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