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Eve Bearne

Position/Status
Senior Research Associate

E-mail Address: eb299@cam.ac.uk

Phone: 01223 507219

Qualifications
B.A. Sociology of Education
M.A. English in Education
PhD (Rethinking Literacy: representation and communication)

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
United Kingdom Literacy Association (President 2003 -2005)

Profile

Eve Bearne was a Senior Lecturer in Language at Homerton College from 1989 - 2000 when she was appointed Assistant Director in Research. She is now a Senior Research Associate of the Faculty, working on the DfES funded project Raising Boys' Achievements, directed by Molly Warrington and Mike Younger. From 2001 - 2003 she worked on the Hertfordshire M.Ed. and since October 2003 she has co-tutored the new Critical Approaches to ChildrenÕs Literature modules of the M.Ed. with Morag Styles.

Research Topics

Writing
Children's production of multimodal texts
Multimodality
Gender and literacy
Issues of transfer and transition

Current Research Projects

  • Saffron Walden primary-secondary transition project - Consultant
  • Raising Boys' Achievement DfES funded project (Associate Researcher; Project directed by Molly Warrington and Mike Younger)
  • Joint research project between United Kingdom Literacy Association and the Primary National Strategy: Raising Boys' Achievements in Writing - Consultant
  • Essex Writing Project - Consultant

Course Involvement

M.Ed Critical Approaches to Children's Literature
M.Phil and PhD

Publications

Bearne, E. (1998) Making Progress in English Routledge, London

Bearne, E. (ed.) (1998) Use of Language Across the Primary Curriculum Routledge , London

Bearne, E. (ed.) (1998) Use of Language Across the Secondary Curriculum Routledge, London

Bearne, E. and Watson, V. (eds.) Where Texts and Children Meet: children's literature past, present and future Routledge, London 1999

Bearne, E. Making Progress in Writing RoutledgeFalmer 2002

Bearne, E. and Styles, M. (eds) Art, Narrative and Childhood Trentham (2003)

Bearne, E. 'Taking a closer look at boys' writing' in Barrs, M. and Pidgeon, S. (eds) Boys and Writing Centre for Language in Primary Education , 2002 pp 67-74

Bearne, E. 'Playing with possibilities: children's multidimensional texts' in Bearne, E., Dombey, H. and Grainger, T. eds. Classroom Interactions in Literacy Open University Press (forthcoming 2003/4)

Bearne, E., Dombey, H. and Grainger, T. eds. (2003) Classroom Interactions in Literacy Maidenhead: Open University Press

Bearne, E. 2003 'Rethinking Literacy: communication, representation and text' in Reading Literacy and Language November 2003 pp 98-103

Bearne,E. (forthcoming 2004) 'Multimodal texts: what they are and how children use them' in Evans, J. ed New Ways of Reading, New Ways of Writing: Using Popular Culture, New Technologies and Critical Literacy in the Primary Classroom New York: Heinemann

For QCA/UKLA (2004) More than Words: Multimodal Texts in the Classroom QCA publications.