Staff Profile:Dr Geoff Taggart

Name:

Dr Geoff Taggart

Job Title:

Lecturer/Co-Director BA CDL

Responsibilities:

• Co-director of the BA Children's Development and Learning (BACDL)
• Organisation of public lecture series
• Blended learning group

Teaching:

• BACDL
• Early Years Professional Status (EYP)
• MA (Ed)
• MA Developing Education for Sustainable Global Futures
• Ed D

Areas of Interest:

Areas of expertise and research interest:

• Early childhood studies
• Curriculum studies
• Philosophy of education
• Psychoanalysis and education
• Religious education
• Spiritual development in education
• Professionalism and an ethic of care
• International context of teacher professionalism
• Appreciative inquiry as a research methodology
• Gender, values and teacher identity
• Global citizenship

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Masters level (if appropriate)

• Religious education
• Early childhood studies
• Teaching profession
• Curriculum studies
• Citizenship education
• Gender, values and teacher identity

Areas in which you are able to supervise at Phd/EdD level:

• Early childhood studies
• Religious education
• Gender, values and teacher identity
• Spiritual development in education
• Teaching profession

Current and Recent PhD Students, with topics/titles of their research:

• Meena Banshi (current) Class and caste in Indian schools: a critical pedagogy

Current and Recent Research Projects:

• Mothers or managers? Love, care and ambivalence towards professionalization in the early years 2009-10 Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship
• 'The passion to teach': a co-operative inquiry exploring the impact of a Waitrose professional development programme upon practising teachers
• 2009-10 Centre for Career Management Skills Fellowship: Perceptions of Early Childhood Education and Care as a Profession and Career
• 2009-10 Using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory with first year Foundation Degree students

Research groups / Centres:

 Global citizenshipCitizenship and education

Publications:

Recent publications/conference presentations/professional achievements:

2011 Faculty Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning

Taggart, G. (2011). Don't we care?: the ethics and emotional labour of early years professionalism Early Years 31 (1), 85-95

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.

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: 18-134

Taggart. G., Ridley, K., Rudd, P. and Benefield, P. (2005) Thinking Skills in the Early Years: a Literature Review Slough: NFER

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

Conference presentations

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 

Enterprise activity; external roles and consultancy:

• 2010: 'The passion to teach': a co-operative inquiry exploring the impact of a Waitrose professional development programme upon practising teacher

Teaching and assessing candidates for Early Years Professional (EYP) Status
• Training workshops for EYP candidates
• International delivery of MA Sustainable Education for Global Futures
• Partnership work with Waitrose plc
• ERASMUS tutor exchange