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Dr Amanda Bourgeois
Dr

Amanda Bourgeois

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Overview

Background

Dr Amanda Bourgeois is a postdoctoral researcher in the UQ Learning Lab: a group of multi-disciplinary researchers, educators, and industry partners who collaborate to transform learning, teaching, and training in diverse school and post-school contexts through the science of learning. In this role, Amanda is investigating the proposed adolescent ‘dip’ across a range of social, emotional and cognitive skills and dispositions, predominantly around the age of 15. This dip has appeared in research projects looking at diverse, but related phenomena such as academic wellbeing, learning regulation, emotion regulation, engagement, curiosity, creativity, and self-esteem. Amanda is developing a comprehensive literature review of the adolescent dip with the aim to better understand what is happening, when, and the potential causes, with the aim of working with education stakeholders to co-design possible interventions and resources to support positive growth and development through the adolescent period.

Amanda has experience as a teacher and counsellor working with disadvantaged adolescents in both the United States and Australia. Her research activities span the topics of adolescence, wellbeing, classroom emotions, student-teacher relationships, and student self-efficacy, particularly with a focus on those from a low socioeconomic background. Amanda is interested in incorporating innovative, real-time forms of measurement in classroom research and she recently developed the S2* emotion application, which captures real-time emotions and causes for emotions.

Availability

Dr Amanda Bourgeois is:
Available for supervision

Qualifications

  • Masters (Coursework) of Educational Studies (Adv), The University of Queensland
  • Doctor of Philosophy of Educational Psychology, The University of Queensland

Works

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12 works between 2013 and 2024

1 - 12 of 12 works

2024

Other Outputs

‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help

Bourgeois, Amanda and Carroll, Annemaree (2024, 10 01). ‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help The Conversation

‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help

2024

Other Outputs

Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success

Mac Mahon, Stephanie, Levitt, Jennifer, Bourgeois, Amanda and Carroll, Annemaree (2024, 06 03). Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success Teacher

Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success

2022

Journal Article

Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application

Bourgeois, Amanda, Carroll, Annemaree and Bower, Julie (2022). Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application. Frontiers in Education, 7. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2022.959673

Exploring the emotions of disadvantaged adolescents in the classroom: Development of the S2* emotion application

2022

Other Outputs

Say goodbye to classroom boredom

Bourgeois, Amanda, Osika, Alexandra and Carroll, Annemaree (2022, 07 05). Say goodbye to classroom boredom THE Campus

Say goodbye to classroom boredom

2019

Other Outputs

Emotions in the classroom: the role of student-teacher relationships and academic self-perceptions for disadvantaged adolescents

Bourgeois, Amanda (2019). Emotions in the classroom: the role of student-teacher relationships and academic self-perceptions for disadvantaged adolescents. PhD Thesis, School of Education, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.801

Emotions in the classroom: the role of student-teacher relationships and academic self-perceptions for disadvantaged adolescents

2019

Journal Article

Changes in science attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and physiological arousal after implementation of a multimodal, cooperative intervention in primary school science classes

Carroll, Annemaree, Gillies, Robyn M., Cunnington, Ross, McCarthy, Molly, Sherwell, Chase, Palghat, Kelsey, Goh, Felicia, Baffour, Bernard, Bourgeois, Amanda, Rafter, Mary and Seary, Tennille (2019). Changes in science attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and physiological arousal after implementation of a multimodal, cooperative intervention in primary school science classes. Information and Learning Science, 120 (7/8), 409-425. doi: 10.1108/ILS-08-2018-0089

Changes in science attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and physiological arousal after implementation of a multimodal, cooperative intervention in primary school science classes

2016

Journal Article

Multimodal representations during an inquiry problemsolving activity in a Year 6 science class: a case study investigating cooperation, physiological arousal and belief states

Gillies, Robyn M., Carroll, Annemaree, Cunnington, Ross, Rafter, Mary, Palghat, Kelsey, Bednark, Jeff and Bourgeois, Amanda (2016). Multimodal representations during an inquiry problemsolving activity in a Year 6 science class: a case study investigating cooperation, physiological arousal and belief states. Australian Journal of Education, 60 (2), 111-127. doi: 10.1177/0004944116650701

Multimodal representations during an inquiry problemsolving activity in a Year 6 science class: a case study investigating cooperation, physiological arousal and belief states

2015

Journal Article

Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence

Carroll, Annemaree, Houghton, Stephen, Bourgeois, Amanda, Hattie, John, Tan, Carol and Ozsoy, Asyegul (2015). Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence. International Journal of Child and Adolescent Health, 8 (2), 121-130.

Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence

2014

Journal Article

Social networking and the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents in Australia

Bourgeois, Amanda, Bower, Julie and Carroll, Annemaree (2014). Social networking and the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents in Australia. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 24 (2), 167-182. doi: 10.1017/jgc.2014.14

Social networking and the social and emotional wellbeing of adolescents in Australia

2014

Book Chapter

Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence

Carroll, Annemaree, Houghton, Stephen, Bourgeois, Amanda, Hattie, John, Tan, Carol and Ozsoy, Asyegul (2014). Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence. Adolescence: Spaces and places. (pp. 7-21) edited by Myra F. Taylor, Julie Ann Pooley and Joav Merrick. New York, USA: Nova Science Publishers Inc..

Loneliness, reputational orientations and positive mental well-being during adolescence

2014

Journal Article

Self-reported substance use among high school students with and without learning difficulties

Carroll, Annemaree, Houghton, Stephen and Bourgeois, Amanda (2014). Self-reported substance use among high school students with and without learning difficulties. Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 19 (1), 47-59. doi: 10.1080/19404158.2014.909861

Self-reported substance use among high school students with and without learning difficulties

2013

Book Chapter

Adolescent loneliness, reputation, and wellbeing: implications for intervention

Bourgeois, Amanda, Carroll, Annemaree and Houghton, Stephen (2013). Adolescent loneliness, reputation, and wellbeing: implications for intervention. Adolescent wellbeing: trends, issues and prospects. (pp. 93-100) edited by J.-F., Darren Pullen and Annemaree Carroll. Hobart, TAS, Australia: Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies.

Adolescent loneliness, reputation, and wellbeing: implications for intervention

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