Dr Geoffrey Taylor

Highly experienced and professional education practitioner

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word of the year slowly entering our vernacular is ‘adjacent’. Everything and everyone seems to be ‘adjacent’. Deeply rooted I suspect in the over-pathologising zeitgeist of our times.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Set stretch goals but not right to the edge of your capability, not a current view in work/life these days, for instance in the helping professions such as teaching, nursing and social work! Always protect your reserve capacities and observe the world. The high country yesterday.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

1. Fed. RC on Anti-Semitism
2. Spec. Env. Anti-Semitism
3. Anti-Semitism Ed. T’force
Hopefully the teaching of humanising dispositions and capabilities are properly valued in the Australian curriculum, packaged up with purpose under a renewed Citizenship Ed. push.DG should know.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

In the context of Jillian Segal’s report on combatting antisemitism - Active Citizenship Education is one potential vehicle for “education and curriculum measures”.

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Watched Q & A tonight - I left thinking how incredible it is that any Australian politician would seriously profess that the ‘echidna’ defence strategy is a realistic proposition for Australia - absolutely frightening!

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A deeply important read, particularly for parents of school-aged children and K-12 educators. The negative effects of which are yet to be fully realised in our society. We all know it’s happening - but to be clear this is about education and parenting not the adult world of work.

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Check out my latest blog about teacher reflection…

https://t.co/ubzP1rSF7V

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Enjoying this book right now. While I don’t agree with everything Martin Wolf says I like some of his frameworks. He’s reasonably balanced although not quite owning up to the problems on the left as well as the right. The conclusion is insightful - “restore citizenship”.

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I’d stay away from Paris in the next little while, it has a certain Munich whiff about it!

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Albo you lost me at Assange

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One of my passion projects - check it out!

https://t.co/6eEEIrDDU5

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

An appropriate place to cast a vote in the referendum.

Old Parliament House - now known as the fab Museum of Australian Democracy!

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Travelling through NZ - although as a qualification to what I observed before, there is notable poverty and sadly a disproportionate share of Maori/ indigenous and Polynesian men begging on the streets ☹️ I still feel it is doing better than Australia.

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Australia and NZ are poles apart. The fact that NZ is bilingual, how much better it is doing on intercultural understanding, a sense of harmony, access to and the sharing of public spaces, and equality of opportunity in seeking the ‘good life’.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Travelling through NZ at the moment and thinking how fundamentally different it is from Australia especially culturally.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

I counted a dozen or more humble apologies from Des! Who would have thought. I’m impressed!

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Such an impressive speech from Des the coach of Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles 🦅 in the NRL on the importance of valuing and promoting diversity, inclusiveness, and human rights and quoting none other than Robert Putnam and Mahatma Ghandi!

https://t.co/9lWFNiwgke

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Profound mistake for Morrison to not personally go to the Solomon Islands, no wonder they’re pissed off - says it all about Australia’s paternal attitude to them.

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Novax Dork-avic- personal responsibility is a real thing

[Dr Geoffrey Taylor @GeoffreyTaylor1]

Look 👀 closely…is inflation coming?