Geoff Taggart
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Associate Professor
- Deputy Director of PG Cert Healthcare Education
- PhD, EdD and MA supervision
- Academic tutor
Areas of 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:
- ED2BHH Head and Heart: Education for Wisdom and Community
- EDM174 Values and Practices in Education (with Helen Bilton)
- EDM182 Professional Studies
- ED3FRL Reflective Leaders of Learning
- EDM200 Families and Learning
- EDM187 Working with Others in Healthcare
Postgraduate supervision
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:
- Rose Mina Munjee Teaching social justice through mindfulness
- Broadfoot, H. Compassion and early childhood practice
- Pawson, G. Supervision in early years settings in the UK
- Morris, L. Early years practitioners' perceptions of their emotional labour
- Andy Wall Applying the pedagogy of Paulo Freire to a curriculum initiative in Ireland
- Blagrove, I. The factors that influence the acceptance or rejection of the Big Bang theory and biological evolution in life-long learning
- Hongyan Zhang 'Left behind' preschool children in rural China
- Wasayef Albouainain Socio-dramatic play and children's cultural and social development
Teaching
- BA Education Studies
- BA Ed Primary (Humanities)
- PG Certificate in Early Years Practice
- PG Certificate in Healthcare Education
- PGCE Primary
- MA Education
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
Values in Education.
Academic qualifications
- Senior Fellow of Higher Education Association