Assoc Prof Anthony Taylor - Researcher Profile

Biography

Over the past decade,Tony Taylor has worked closely with a wide range of colleagues to improve the standing of history education in Australia. In 1999 he was appointed Director of the Australian Government's National Inquiry into the Teaching and Learning of History and, from 2001-2007, he was Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for History Education. He has researched and published extensively in Australia and overseas in the field of history education, as well as in the fields of higher education policy, the politics of educational change, vocational education, rural education and history of education. From 2006 to 2010 he worked as senior consultant with successive Coalition and ALP federal governments in formulating three drafts of a national history curriculum. Tony Taylor also developed national professional standards for the teaching and learning of history. His current research includes a 2010 award (with colleague A/Prof Joseph Zajda - Australian Catholic University) of an Australian Research Council Discovery grant (2011-2013) to conduct a comparative analysis of the political contexts for the development of history national curricula in Australia and Russia. He is also currently a partner Chief Investigator on a Deakin University ARC Linkage grant 2011-2013 on primary history pedagogy and the national curriculum.

Research & Supervision Interests

His research interests are predominantly in the area of history and humanities education but he also retains an interest in his wider research background, particularly in the politics of educational change and in the history and politics of education. Examples of his current supervisory load include secondary school studies in history education, a linguistic post-colonial perspective on the rise of the Indian economy, curriculum innovation - and a history of Changi PoWs.

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Qualifications

PHD

Institution: University of Cambridge

Year awarded: 1981

MED

Institution: University of Bristol

Year awarded: 1977

ACADEMIC DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION

Institution: University of London

Year awarded: 1972

PGCE

Institution: University of Birmingham

Year awarded: 1967

BA(HONS)

Institution: University of Exeter

Year awarded: 1966

Publications

Books

Taylor, A., Guyver, R. (eds), 2012, History Wars and the Classroom Global Perspectives, Information Age Publishing Inc, Charlotte NC USA.

Taylor, A.I., 2008, Denial History Betrayed, Melbourne University Publishing, Australia.

Taylor, A.I., Young, C.M., 2003, Making History: A Guide for the Teaching and Learning of History in Australian Schools, Curriculum Corporation, Carlton Vic Australia.

Taylor, T., 1997, The Politics of Reaction: The Ideology of the Cecils and the Challence of Secular Education 1889-1902, University of Leeds, Leeds.

Book Chapters

Taylor, A., 2012, Denial in the classroom: political origins of the Japanese textbook controversy, in History Wars and the Classroom Global Perspectives, eds Tony Taylor and Robert Guyver, IAP, Charlotte NC USA, pp. 89-106.

Taylor, A., Guyver, R., 2012, Under siege from right and left: a tale of the Australian school history wars, in History Wars and the Classroom Global Perspectives, eds Tony Taylor and Robert Guyver, IAP, Charlotte NC USA, pp. 25-50.

Taylor, A., 2010, Constructing the Australian school history curriculum: Ideology, high politics and the History Wars in the Howard Years, in Globalisation, Ideology and Education Policy Reforms, eds Joseph Zajda, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 19-38.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, Disputed Territory: the politics of historical consciousness in Australia, in Theorizing Historical Consciousness, eds Peter Seixas, University of Toronto Press, Toronto Canada, pp. 217-239.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, John Lenin's little known part in the Bolshevik Revolution: from history horror stories to historical literacy, in A Future for the Past: The State of Children's History, History Council NSW, Royal Exchange NSW Australia, pp. 11-18.

Taylor, A.I., 2001, The future of the past: a brief account of the Australian national inquiry into school history, 1999-2000, in Raising standards in history education, eds Alaric Dickinson, Peter Gordon and Peter Lee, Woburn Press, London UK, pp. 181-189.

Taylor, A.I., 2000, The past, present and future of history teaching in schools, in Routledge International Companion to Education, Routledge, London UK, pp. 843-854.

Journal Articles

Taylor, A.I., Collins, S.M., 2012, Behind the battle lines of history as politics: an international and intergenerational methodology for testing the social identity thesis of history education, Education Sciences [E], vol 2, issue 4, MDPI AG, Switzerland, pp. 208-217.

Taylor, A.I., Collins, S.M., 2012, The politics are personal: the Australian vs the Australian curriculum in history, Curriculum Journal [E], vol 23, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon Oxon United Kingdom, pp. 531-552.

Taylor, A., 2010, The missing link: Examining convict portrayal in colonial caricature, Agora [P], vol 45, issue 3, History Teachers' Association of Victoria, Victoria, Australia, pp. 4-10.

Taylor, A.I., 2009, Howard's End: a narrative memoir of political contrivance, neoconservative ideology and the Australian history curriculum, Curriculum Journal [P], vol 20, issue 4, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK., pp. 317-329.

Taylor, A.I., 2007, Lies, damn lies and history textbooks: two case studies in Japan and the United States, Curriculum Perspectives, vol 27, issue 1, Australian Curriculum Studies Association, Deakin West, ACT, pp. 15-25.

Taylor, A.I., 2006, Developing national professional standards for Australian teachers of history, Educational Practice and Theory, vol 28, issue 2, James Nicholas Publishers Pty Ltd, Albert Park Vic Australia, pp. 41-58.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, A five step reality check: dealing with conspiracy theories: What is a conspiracy theory - and why?, Professional Digest: a Journal of Research for Teachers of History, issue 3, National Centre for History Education/DEST, CHURCHILL Vic Australia, pp. 1-3.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, Access denied: ICT and secondary school history in the UK - and lessons for Australia, Professional Digest: a Journal of Research for Teachers of History, vol 3, National Centre for History Education/DEST, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-2.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, 'How Good an Historian Shall I Be?' R.G.Collingwood, The Historical Imagination and Education, History Australia, vol 1, issue 2, Australian Historical Association, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 338-341.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, Improving student explanation: using RAFTS in the upper primary and the lower secondary school, Professional Digest: a Journal of Research for Teachers of History, vol 3, National Centre for History Education/DEST, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-2.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, Seeing the writing on the wall: graffiti in history - from Pompeii to Belfast, Ozhistorybytes, vol 4, National Centre for History Education/DEST, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-15.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, The French Revolution: An Introduction to Forms of Representation, Hindsight, vol November, issue 2004, History Teachers' Association of Western Australia, Perth WA Australia, pp. 18-23.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, The game of death: playing soccer with the Nazis, Ozhistorybytes, vol 6, National Centre for History Education/DEST, Chuchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-17.

Taylor, A.I., 2004, The misuse of history: the European view, Professional Digest: a Journal of Research for Teachers of History, vol 3, National Centre for History Education/DEST, Churchill Vic Australia, pp. 1-2.

Taylor, A.I., 2003, Connecting with the past: the National History Project and the revival of school history, Public History Review - Remembering & Forgetting, vol 10, Professional Historian Association NSW Inc., Australia, pp. 85-89.

Taylor, A.I., 2003, Trying to connect: moving from bad history to historical literacy in schools, Australian Cultural History, vol 0, issue 22, University of Queensland Press, St Lucia Qld Australia, pp. 175-190.

Taylor, T., Clemans, A., 2000, Avoiding the Hoops: a study of recognition of prior learning processes in Australian faculties of education, Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, vol 28 issue 3, Carfax, UK, pp. 263-280.

Winter, R.P., Taylor, T., Sarros, J., 2000, Trouble at Mill: quality of academic worklife issues within a comprehensive Australian university, Studies in Higher Education, vol 25 issue 3, Carfax Publishing Ltd, Abingdon UK, pp. 279-294.

Taylor, T., 2000, Voices from the Bush: Gippsland Gourmet PD and the culture and politics of teacher professional development in country Victoria, Rural Society, vol 10 issue 1, Centre for Rural Research Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga NSW, pp. 29-46.

Taylor, T., Gough, J., Bundrock, V., Winter, R.P., 1998, A Bleak Outlook: academic staff perceptions of changes in core activities in Australian higher education, 1991-1996, Studies in Higher Education, vol 23, 3, Carfax Publishing Ltd, Abingdon Oxfordshire UK, pp. 255-268.

Taylor, T., 1998, An Australian Case Study in Partnership: rural decline, the unstable curriculum and grassroots professional development, Journal of In-service Education, vol 24, 2, Triangle Journals Ltd, Wallingford Oxfordshire UK, pp. 347-366.

Conference Proceedings

Taylor, A.I., 2006, Herding cats: developing national professional standards for Australian teachers of history, American Educational Research Association (AERA ) 2006 Annual Meeting: Education Research in the Public Interest, 7 April 2006 - 11 April 2006, AERA, Washington DC, pp. 1-22.

Taylor, T., 1998, Practitioner Research and Credit Transfer, Second International Practitioner Research Conference Papers, University of Sydney, Faculty of Education, University of Sydney, http://www.usyd.edu.au.edfac.projects.rescon, p. 5.

Other

Taylor, A.I., 2000, The Future of the Past: the Final Report of the National Inquiry into School History, Department of Education Training and Youth Affairs, Canberra ACT Australia, pp. 1-188.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A study of the development of India's newly-developed role as a world power with special reference to the importance of English language acquisition as a post-colonial phenomenon.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main), Plunkett, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Observing the teaching and learning of mathematics from the inside..

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main), Osborn, M (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The history excursion: Sites of suffering and trauma in the formation of youth national identity.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main), Triolo, R (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Cartwright, K.

Program of Study:

Regional Education & Sustainable Rural Communities. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Plunkett, M (Joint), Taylor, A (Joint-Co).

Student:

Donnelly, D.

Program of Study:

Adventures in flawed time machines: feature films, teacher pedagogy and deep historical understanding. (PHD) 2012.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main).

Student:

Fennessy, K.

Program of Study:

PEOPLE LEARNING: COLONIAL VICTORIANS AND THEIR PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS FOR ADULT LEARNING, 1860-1880. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Edwards, J (Main), Taylor, T (Associate).

Student:

Hurrell, O.

Program of Study:

LEARNER IDENTITY AND RESETTLEMENT IN AUSTRALIA: EXPERIENCES OF ADUTLS IN THE SUDANESE COMMUNITY. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main).

Student:

Longney, G.

Program of Study:

Teaching History with Second Order Historical Concepts: A Case Study in Teacher Experience. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main).

Student:

Sheil, H.

Program of Study:

COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION FOR TRANSFORMATION: STRATEGIES FOR RURAL SUSTAINABILITY. (PHD) 2002.

Supervisors:

Cairns, L (Main), Taylor, A (Associate).

Student:

Turner, A.

Program of Study:

The role of Historical enquiry in Historical understanding. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main).

Student:

Wattchow, B.

Program of Study:

The experience of river places in outdoor education: a phenomenological study. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Taylor, A (Main).