John Keenan
Senior Lecturer PGCE Secondary, Subject Knowledge Enhancement English
Biography
Dr John Keenan’s teaching specialities are in English, media and communication, and Further Education.
He has been a teacher in these subjects at secondary, Further Education and Higher Education levels. Dr Keenan is currently a senior lecturer running the secondary English programme for PGCE teacher trainees and also teaches on the Master’s in Education and doctorate programmes. In the past, he has worked at Leicester, Coventry, Warwick and Worcester universities in various roles including running a degree in Advertising and Media, and English lead tutor on the Teach First programme.
His research interests include emotional responses to audio-visual texts and he has published articles and books on innovative methods of teaching and on College-based Higher Education.
Profile
Qualifications
PhD, MA, PGCHE, PGCE, BA(Hons)
Teaching
Lead tutor for PGCE English, mentoring and coaching, Further Education
Teaching Interests
Education, English, communication, media
Research Interests
Teacher training, mentoring, Further Education
Membership of Professional Organisations
Committee member of Association for Research in Post-compulsory Education (ARPCE) and member of National Association for Pastoral Care in Education (NAPCE)
Fellow HEA
Other Activities
Publications
Keenan, J. and Hind, A. (2023) Your Secondary School Direct Toolkit. London: Sage.
Akama, F and Keenan, J (2022) Attitudes towards staff mentoring by senior leaders of a College of Education in Ghana. Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management.
Kadi-Hanifi, K and Keenan, J (2022) The Professional Doctorate as a Mode and Model of Activism and Resistance. Chapter in The Professional Doctorate in Education: Activism, Transformation and Practice by Lesley Saunders and David Trotman. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press.
Kadi-Hanifi, K. and Keenan, J (2021) (Eds) College-Based Higher Education: A New Hope. Chapter in Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education by Mike Seal (Ed.). London: Bloomsbury
Kadi-Hanifi, K and Keenan, J (Eds) (2020) CBHE and Its Identities. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Keenan, J. and Kadi-Hanifi, K. (2019) Epistemological moor-ing. Re-positioning Foucault, Bourdieu and Derrida theory to its Northern African origins. Teaching in Higher Education.
Keenan, J. and Kadi-Hanifi, K. (2019) What does the further and adult education sector do and why does it matter? Chapter in Tummons, J. (Ed) PCET: Learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector. London: Sage.
Kadi-Hanifi, K. and Keenan, J. (2016) Finding the ‘a-ha’ moment: an exploration into HE in FE teacher self-concept. Research in Post-compulsory Education.
Kadi-Hanifi, K. and Keenan, J. (2015) Singing better songs? A life history study of higher education teacher educators working in the English further education sector. Power and Education.
Keenan, J. and Evans, A. (2013) ‘I am a Starbucks worker… my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of estrangement as a learning tool. Teaching in Higher Education.
- Karima Kadi-Hanifi and John Keenan (2022) The Professional Doctorate as a Mode and Model of Activism and Resistance Chapter 11 of The Professional Doctorate in Education: Activism, Transformation and Practice edited by Lesley Saunders and David Trotman
- Karima Kadi-Hanifi, and John Keenan (2021) College-Based Higher Education: A New Hope. Chapter 20 of Seal, M. Hopeful Pedagogies in Higher Education. London: Bloomsbury.
- Karima Kadi-Hanifi and John Keenan (2020) College Based Higher Education and its Identities. Palgrave Macmillan.
- John Keenan & Karima Kadi-Hanifi (2019) Epistemological moor-ing. Re-positioning Foucault, Bourdieu and Derrida theory to its Northern African origins, Teaching in Higher Education.
- John Keenan and Karima Kadi-Hanifi (2019) What does the further and adult education sector do and why does it matter? Chapter One of Tummons, J. (Ed) PCET: Learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector. London: Sage.
- Kadi-Hanifi, K. and Keenan, J. (2016) Finding the ‘a-ha’ moment: an exploration into HE in FE teacher self-concept. Research in Post-compulsory Education, Vol.21(1-2), 73-85.
- ‘Singing Better Songs? A Life History Study of Higher Education Teacher Educators Working in the English Further Education Sector’ with Dr Karima Kadi-Hanifi. Power and Education (In press)
- ‘I am a Starbucks worker… my life no longer belongs to me’: the performance of estrangement as a learning tool with Dr Adrienne Evans. Teaching in Higher Education (September 2013)