Geoff Taggart

Geoff Taggart
  • 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:

  • EDM211 Education for Social Sustainability
  • EDM186 The Professional Self and Healthcare
  • EDM189 Interprofessional Collaboration and Healthcare
  • ED3GUH Growing Up Human: Early Childhood Development and Educational Futures
  • ED3FRL Reflective Leaders of Learning
  • EDM200 Families and Learning

Postgraduate supervision

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

  • Sustainability and education.
  • Spiritual development in education.
  • Professionalism and an ethic of care.
  • Interfaith religious education.
  • Contemplative pedagogy.
  • Ethics and teacher professionalism.
  • Attachment styles and moral development.

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

  • Rose Mina Munjee Teaching social justice through mindfulness
  • 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
  • Wasayef Albouainain Play and children's cultural and social development
  • Hongyan Zhang Wellbeing and young children
  • Ugochi Uzo Education and resilience
  • Christian Evans Teaching ethics in the Royal Navy

Teaching

  • BA Children's Development and Learning
  • PG Certificate in Early Years Practice
  • PG Certificate in Healthcare Education
  • MA Education

Research projects

I am currently writing about the power of early childhood development, and the way it suggests intelligence arises, to challenge the assumptions embedded in models of AI.

Academic qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of Higher Education Association

 

Publications

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