Louise Taylor
Louise is an Early Years Facilitator for the Auckland region.
Louise has a teaching background, training as a primary school teacher in the 1970s. She has spent most of her working life in the Early Childhood sector as a teacher, manager, tutor and professional learning facilitator. Before joining CORE Education at the end of 2010, Louise managed a PTE working with at-risk youth, and adults with literacy needs. Since joining CORE she has been delivering professional learning to ECE centres in the Henderson (West Auckland) under a Ministry of Education contract focused on identity, language and culture.
Louise is also currently completing oversight of a three year action research project looking at collective storytelling for professional learning.
- Facilitating professional learning communities
- Leadership mentoring
- Social justice in education
- Action research
- Louise has a keen interest in equity issues. Her PhD (2007) used poststructuralist feminist theory and the work of Foucault to explore teacher professional learning and how to bring a social justice vision into the practice of teaching.
- Member of the Centre for Equity and Innovation in Early Childhood (The University of Melbourne)
I have lived in West Auckland all of her life and I love it. I have three grown children and I live with my husband in the house we designed and built 28 years ago. I love going out with friends for walks and meals and I enjoy cycling, reading, thought provoking foreign films and holidaying around New Zealand.
