Associate Professor Tony Taylor

Job title:	Director
Qualifications:	B.A. Hons (Exeter), P.G.C.E (Birmingham), Ac. Dip Ed. (London), M.Ed. (Bristol), Ph.D. (Cambridge)
Location:	Gippsland, building 2S, room 132
Phone:	+61 3 990 26365
Location:	Gippsland, building 2S
Phone:	+61 3 990 26365
Email:	Tony.Taylor@Education.monash.edu.au Tony.Taylor@Education.monash.edu.au
Fax:	+61 3 990 26361
Personal website:	http://www.hyperhistory.org

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Research Interests

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 2001-2006, he was Director of the Australian Government's National Centre for History Education. He is currently principal Chief Investigator in two large Australian Research Council projects, has been a Chief Investigator in seven Australian Research Council Small Grants as well as several other small grants. He has 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. In 2003, with Carmel Young of the University of Sydney, he was co-author of "Making History, a guide for the teaching and learning of history in Australian schools", which was short-listed for a 2004 Australian Publishers Award (APA) for excellence in educational publishing. In the same year he was a contributing author to "Making History: Investigating People and Issues in Australia after World War II', an APA category winner.

His current research interests are predominantly in the area of history and social studies education but he is also committed to retaining an interest in his wider research background, particularly in the politics of educational change and in the history and politics of education. He is currently supervising research dissertations in history education, physical theatre, a linguistic post-colonial perspective on the rise of the Indian economy, student literacy and history of alternative education in the UK.

Professional Associations

• Life Member, History Teachers' Association Victoria
• Editorial Board member - Agora
• Editorial Board member - International Review of History Education

Supervision

history education and social studies education

politics of educational change

history and politics of education

rural education issues

vocational education issues

physical theatre and pedagogy

leadership and education

Indian economic growth and English language skills

Publications

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