Staff Profile:Dr Geoff Taggart

Name:

Dr Geoff Taggart

Job Title:

Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

University and Institute of Education Responsibilities:

• Director of PG Certificate in Early Years Practice
• PhD, MA and ATP supervision
• Academic tutor
• Part-time secondment on Electronic Marking and Assessment project (2017-18)

Teaching:

• FD/BA Children's Development and Learning
• BA Childhood and Education
• BA Ed Primary (Humanities)
• PG Certificate in Early Years Practice
• PGCE Primary
• MA Education
• EdD

Areas of Interest:

Expertise and Research Interest:

All of my teaching and research focusses on ways in which education can help us to flourish as human beings. A key theme centres on adult behaviour in learning organisations which espouse an ethic of care, particularly behaviours associated with professional resilience and reflection. Early years is a rich context for this work. I investigated spiritual development for my PhD and have been ordained as an interfaith minister: I therefore retain a strong interest in the philosophical foundations of education and am exploring the new field of contemplative pedagogy. I convene the following modules:

• ED3FRP The Reflective Practitioner
• ED3OML Organisation for Management of Learning
• EDM148 The Professional Self in Early Years Leadership
• EDM140 Professionalism and an Ethic of Care
• EDM174 Values and Practices in Education (with Helen Bilton)
• EDM182 Professional Studies

Masters and Phd/EdD Level Supervision offered in these areas:

• Supervision in early years settings.
• Attachment styles amongst early years practitioners.
• Spiritual development in education.
• Professionalism and an ethic of care.
• Practitioner self-care and burnout.
• Interfaith religious education.
• Contemplative pedagogy
• Ethics and teacher professionalism
• Mindfulness and education

Current and Recent PhD and EdD Students, with Topics/Titles of their research:

• Pawson, G. Supervision in early years settings in the UK
• Morris, L. Early years practitioners' perceptions of their emotional labour
• Blagrove, I. The factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of the Big Bang theory and biological evolution in life-long learning
• Wardale, C. The TAEDS Tree: a case study of graduate identity and employability in a unique degree programme
• Matterface, J. Students’ and instructors’ perceptions, beliefs and intentions concerning the use of digital technologies in learning
• Oyunge, T. Teachers' perceptions about the integration of ICT in secondary school teaching in Kenya
• Alisiri, N. The factors that affect the use of school e-learning in rural areas of Saudi Arabia

Current and Recent Research Projects:

• Re-gendering Early Years: from Maternal Care to Political Compassion : interviews with early years practitioners who are also mothers. Argues for the need to re-interpret the maternal tradition in early childhood education.
• Good with Children: ethical formation in early childhood teacher programmes. Argues for an affective approach to ethical formation and development in teacher development

Research groups / Centres:

 Values in Education.

Publications:

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2019

• Taggart, G. (2019) Cultivating ethical dispositions in early childhood practice for an ethic of care: a contemplative approach. In: Langton, R. (ed.) Theorizing Feminist Ethics of Care in Early Childhood Practice: Possibilities and Dangers. Bloomsbury, New York. ISBN 9781350067486 (In Press)

2016

• Taggart, G. (2016) Compassionate pedagogy: the ethics of care in early childhood professionalism. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 24 (2). pp. 173-185. ISSN 1752-1807 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2014.970847

2015

• Taggart, G. (2015) Sustaining care: cultivating mindful practice in early years professional development. Early Years, 35 (4). pp. 381-393. ISSN 0957-5146 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2015.1105200

2011

• Taggart, G. (2011) Don't we care?: the ethics and emotional labour of early years professionalism. Early Years, 31 (1). pp. 85-95. ISSN 0957-5146 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/09575146.2010.536948

2010

• Taggart, G. (2010) Religious and spiritual identity and citizenship education in the UK. In: Soininen, M. and Merisuo-Storm, T. (eds.) Looking at Diversity in Different Ways. University of Turku, Turku, Finland, pp. 95-119.

2008

• Sturman, L. and Taggart, G. (2008) The professional voice: comparing questionnaire and telephone methods in a national survey of teachers' perceptions. British Educational Research Journal, 34 (1). 117-134. ISSN 0141-1926 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920701492159

2005

• Taggart, G. and Ridley, K. (2005) Thinking skills in the early years: a literature review. NFER, Slough, pp73. ISBN 9781905314126

2004

• Taggart, G. (2004) Whitehead and Marcuse: teaching the “art of life". Process Papers, 8. pp. 53-67.

2002

• Taggart, G. (2002) Mickey Mouse spirituality? Children’s worldviews and the culture industry. British Journal of Religious Education, 25 (1). pp. 60-68. ISSN 1740-7931 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0141620020250106
• Taggart, G. (2002) Spiritual literacy and tacit knowledge. Journal of Beliefs and Values, 23 (1). pp. 7-17. ISSN 1469-9362 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13617670220125638

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Conference Presentations:

• Compassionate pedagogy in the early years International Symposium on Compassionate Organizations, Kentucky USA May 2013
• Taggart, G. (2011, October). Caring plc: professional subjectivity and the commodification of childcare. Paper presented at the 19th Reconceptualising Early Childhood Education Conference, University of East London
• 'Perceptions of Early Childhood Education and Care as a Profession and Career' European Early Childhood Education Research Association conference, Birmingham, 2010
• 'Towards a more holistic form of teacher education' ESCALATE 2007, St Martins College, Lancaster

Any Further Information:

Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy:

• 2012: Overview of Religious Education in England for Sinobridge.

Professional Achievements:

• 2011 Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning.