Phil Taylor

Contact

• workRoom C9 Dearing Building
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• P.Taylor@nottingham.ac.uk

Biography

Phil Taylor is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Management and programme leader for MA Educational Leadership and Management courses. In recent years, his work has been dedicated to supporting the professional growth, organisational development and self-determined learning of teachers and educational leaders, particularly through practice-based inquiry and masters-level study.

Pursuing a lifelong career in education, Phil taught maths, computing and ICT for fourteen years in two large London comprehensive schools, before settling in the Midlands and working for eight years in advisory roles for two local authorities. During this time, he held various leadership positions, including school ICT co-ordinator and assistant headteacher, followed by local authority consultant, secondary strategy manager and school improvement partner roles. Moving into higher education in 2010, for six years Phil was course leader for education masters programmes and taught on PGCE courses at Birmingham City University, prior to joining the University of Nottingham.

Phil's main educational research and practice interests:

· Complexity thinking, self-determined learning and heutagogy.

· Reflective and collaborative practice-based inquiry and participatory action research.

· Teacher personal and professional growth, agency, development and learning.

· School and organisational development and improvement.

· Generative educational leadership, management and governance.

· ICT as a tool for thinking, learning and development.

Teaching Summary

Phil is course leader and teaches on the MA Educational Leadership and Management programme. He has also taught on the BA Education Studies course and co-supervises doctoral students.

Recent Publications

• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2020. The complexity of teacher professional growth – unravelling threads of purpose, opportunity and response: Professional Development in Education Professional Development in Education. 1-14
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2019. Thinking in education research: applying philosophy and theory: Educational Action Research Educational Action Research. 1-3
• TOWNSEND, ANDREW and TAYLOR, PHIL, 2019. Participatory Action Research and Teacher Education. In: PETERS, MICHAEL A., ed., Encyclopedia of Teacher Education Springer Singapore. 1-6
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2017. Learning about professional growth through listening to teachers: Professional Development in Education Professional Development in Education. 43(1), 87-105

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• Educational leadership, management and governance.
• School and organisational development and improvement.
• Teacher professional growth, agency, development and learning.
• Reflective and collaborative practice-based inquiry and participatory action research.

Phil is a member of the Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management.

• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2020. The complexity of teacher professional growth – unravelling threads of purpose, opportunity and response: Professional Development in Education Professional Development in Education. 1-14
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2019. Thinking in education research: applying philosophy and theory: Educational Action Research Educational Action Research. 1-3
• TOWNSEND, ANDREW and TAYLOR, PHIL, 2019. Participatory Action Research and Teacher Education. In: PETERS, MICHAEL A., ed., Encyclopedia of Teacher Education Springer Singapore. 1-6
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2017. Learning about professional growth through listening to teachers: Professional Development in Education Professional Development in Education. 43(1), 87-105
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2015. All Above Average: secondary school improvement as an impossible endeavour: FORUM FORUM. 57(2), 239-250
• TAYLOR, PHIL, 2011. All above average: expectations and the use of prior attainment data to estimate future attainment in pupil target-setting.: Online Education Research Journal (OERJ) Online Education Research Journal (OERJ).