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Monica Taylor
Professor, Educational Foundations
- Office:
- University Hall 2142
- Email:
- taylorm@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-6952
- Degrees:
- BA, University of Pennsylvania
- MS, City College of New York
- PhD, University of Arizona
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Monica Taylor is the Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies and a feminist professor and social justice advocate in the Department of Educational Foundations. She also is Academic Co-Editor of The Educational Forum. She writes about feminist pedagogy, self-study, LGBTQ+ inclusive practices, teaching for social justice, and teacher leadership. She recently co-edited The 2nd International Handbook of Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education Practices and is currently writing a book, Our bodies tell the story: Using feminist research and friendship to reimagine education and our lives. She serves on the Board of Planned Parenthood of Metro NJ and volunteers as an advocate for asylum seekers as well as for voter protection. Her commitments to fighting sexism, heteronormativity, and racism manifest in all aspects of her life.
Specialization
Feminist and Queer Pedagogy
School Based Teacher Education
Co/Autoethnography
Self Study/Action Research
Teacher Leadership
Theater of the Oppressed
Embodied Pedagogy
Gender and Sexuality in Teacher Education
Resume/CV
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Documents
- Allowing the Personal to Drive Our Self-Study
- Feminist Teacher Leadership
- Triggered by the Kavanaugh Hearings
- Dislodging Patriarchal Boundaries
- Self-Study of Teaching and Teacher Education and Social Justice
- Co/autoethnography: A Retrospective
- An Interview with Julian Boal
- Tending to Ourselves, Tending to Others