Teaching

• Socio-cultural Politics of Education (B. Education/Grad. Dip. Ed)
• Educational Futures (M.Educational Leadership, Hangzhou)
• Educational Futures and ICT (M. Educational Leadership UC)
• Theories of Childhood (Grad. Cert. Education Early Childhood, M. Ed)

Research

Research Interests:

• Reconceptualising early childhood
• place-based pedagogies
• children’s geographies
• cultural politics of identity
• queer theory
• postcolonial theory
• posthumanist theory
• Indigenous/non-indigenous Australian relations
• Australian multiculturalism
• culture, education and globalisation
• social inclusion and belonging

Research:

• Current Research:
  • The nature of childhood’: exploring relations between young children, place, and animals.
    
  • ‘Three Sisters’: exploring place-based Indigenous early childhood pedagogies across different settings

• Past Research:
  • Early Belongings’: young children’s identity and belonging in early childhood centres
    
  • Same-sex families and homophobia in Australia
    
  • Reframing the sexualisation of children in the media debate
    
  • Contested national belonging: Cronulla riots; ‘white’ Australia and the politics of exclusion; whiteness critique in early childhood.
    
  • Judith Butler and Queer theory: queering childhood ethnographies; queering early childhood studies
    
  • Postcolonial geographies of place and belonging: Jervis Bay study; Perth study

Thesis Supervision:

• Kirk Zwangobani (PhD candidate)
  ‘Has the Amazi bird landed? In search of pan-African identity and social cohesion amongst African-Australian youth’
  
• Sandra Seymour (PhD candidate)
  ‘”Me, myself, I”: ‘Dis’ability and identity conversations’
  
• Lily Petkovska (PhD candidate)
  ‘Australian Identity in an Ex-pat Community’
  
• Iain Hay (PhD candidate)
  ‘A critical discourse analysis of teenage motherhood in one Australian school setting’
  
• Nur Fitriatin Yamin (PhD candidate)
  ‘Multicultural and Islamic Education in Indonesia’
  
• Robyn Faulkner (PhD candidate)
  ‘Knowing Teachers’

Publications

• Taylor, A. (forthcoming) Troubling childhood innocence: Reframing the debate over the media sexualisation of children, Australian Journal of Early Childhood.
• Taylor, A. (in press) Book Review: Invisible Boundaries: Addressing Sexualities Equalities in Children’s Worlds, International Journal of equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Volume 7.
• Taylor, A. (forthcoming) ‘Re-theorising the ‘nature’ of childhood’, AARE Conference Proceedings, AARE Conference, Canberra, 2009.
• Taylor, A. (forthcoming) ‘Becoming dog, becoming wordly’, RECE Conference Proceedings, 17th International Reconceptualising Early Childhood Conference, Bethlehem, 2009.
• Taylor, A (in press) ‘Unpacking the nature of childhood’, in Semann, Slattery & Madden (Eds.) Unpacking possibilities of representation: Representation of children, representation of the self as educator and representation through documentation. Conference proceedings, March 14 & 15, 2008   Macquarie University, Sydney.
• Taylor, A (2009) ‘Belonging’ in R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, Elsevier, Oxford UK 
• Taylor, A. (2009) ‘Australian Bodies, Australian Sands’ in G. Noble (ed.) Lines in the Sands, Sydney Institute of Criminology.
• Taylor, A (2008) ‘Taking account of childhood excess: Bringing the elsewhere home’ in B. Davies (ed.) Conversations with Judith Butler, Routledge, New York and London
• Taylor, A., Blaise, M. and Robinson, K. (2007) ‘Making trouble. A conversation about departing from the straight and narrow in early childhood’, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 5 (2): 32-46. Available on line at: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/members/IJEIEC/nonmembers/IJEIECNonVol5No2.htmlo
• Taylor, A. and Blaise, M. (2007) ‘Editorial – IJEIEC Special Queer Issue’, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 5 (2): 1-4. Available on line at: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/ceiec/members/IJEIEC/nonmembers/IJEIECNonVol5No2.htmlo
  
• Taylor, A. (2007) ‘Playing with difference: The cultural politics of childhood belonging’ International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities, Nations, 7 (3):   Available on line at: http://ijd.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.29/prod.526
• Taylor, A (2007) ‘Innocent children, dangerous families and homophobic panic’ in G. Morgan and S. Poynting (eds.) Outrageous: Moral Panics in Australia,  Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies, Hobart.
• Taylor, A. (2006) ‘Australian Feminisms: Key shifts and interventions’ in Women’s Studies Institute of China Journal, Collections of Women’s Studies (3) 
• Taylor, A. (2006) ‘Towards a transformative pedagogy of self/other’. AARE 2006 Conference, Proceedings. Available online at http://www.aare.edu.au/05pap/tay05082.pdf
• Anderson, K and Taylor, A. (2005) ‘Exclusionary politics and the question of national belonging: Australian ethnicities in ‘multiscalar’ focus’ Ethnicities 5 (4) pp.460-485
• Taylor, A (2005) ‘Situating whiteness critique in Australian early childhood: The cultural politics of “Aussie” kids in the sand pit’, International Journal of Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, 3 (1), pp.5-17. Available on line at: http://www.edfac.unimelb.edu.au/LED/CEIEC/members/IJEIEC/nonmembers/IJEIECNonVol3No1.shtml
• Taylor, A. and Richardson, C. (2005) ‘Queering Home Corner’ Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood  6 (2), pp.163-174. Available on line at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/ciec/content/pdfs/6/issue6_2.asp.
• Taylor A and Richardson, C. (2005) ‘Home renovations, border protection and the hard work of belonging’, Australian Research in Early Childhood 12 (1), pp.93-100
• Taylor, A. (2000) 'The Sun Always Shines in Perth: A postcolonial geography of identity, memory and place', Australian Geographical Studies, Vol.38, No.1, pp.27-35
• Taylor, A. (2000) 'Performing Special Place Differently: Black and white takes on eco-tourism in Jervis Bay' in Habitus 2000 - a sense of place, School of Architecture, Construction and Planning, Curtin University, Perth (Conference Proceedings, CD format, ISBN:1 834 2 908 5).
• Taylor, A. (2000) 'The Sun Always Shines in Perth: A postcolonial geography of identity, memory and place', Australian Geographical Studies, Vol.38, No.1, pp.27-35
• Taylor, A. (1998) 'The Sun Always Shines in Perth: Memory, Place and Identity', in George Morgan (ed) Urban Life/Urban Culture: Aboriginal/Indigenous Experiences, Goolangullia, UWS Macarthur, Sydney, pp.267-280
• Taylor, A. (1998) 'Lesbian Space: More than One Imagined Territory' in Rosa Ainley (ed) New Frontiers of Space, Bodies and Gender, Routledge, London and New York, pp 129-141
• Durie, J. and Taylor, A.(1998) 'Resistance, whiteness and cultural difference' in  ERIC  database, ED 421642 
• Taylor, A. (1997) 'A Queer Geography' in Sally Munt and Andy Medhurst (eds) Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction, Cassell, London, pp. 3-19.

Service

Community Engagement:

• Cultural diversity professional development trainer in community sector (ACT Parent Support Service and ACT Parent Line; ACT Conflict Resolution Centre; TRACHCS ACT; NSW Children’s Inclusion Support Service; NSW Social Justice in Early Childhood) and for ACT DET Board of Studies

Associations:

Membership of:

• Australian Institute of Geographers
  
• Australian Association Research in Education
  
• Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood
  
• Early Childhood Australia

Visiting Scholar at:

• ANU RSPAS Department Human Geography, Feb – May 2008;
  
• University of Waikato, Faculty of Education Research Centre, May – June 2008;
  
• University of Melbourne, Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, April – June 2007;
  
• Chinese Institute for Women’s Studies, Beijing, May 2006

Awards:

• ACT Children’s Week (2009) ‘Outstanding contributions to child development’
• Early Career Researcher Award, University of Canberra, 2006-2007
• UNSW Ria de Groot prize (2002) PhD scholarship
• Institute of Australian Geographers Award for best postgraduate paper 1998 and 2002
• Australian Postgraduate Award (1998 - 2001)