Welcome, Willkommen, Howdy, Molo…

Alan Taylor Heading Convocation of 2010

“Besides his excellent teaching record, Dr. Taylor is a prolific researcher and superbly productive writer. He seems to have a knack for identifying new developments in film, media and their studies. Dr. Taylor appears to be that rare case of a scholar who is equally strong in teaching as well as academic research…”.

Professor, Winfried Fluck, John F. Kennedy Institute,   Berlin

“Not everyone who chased the zebra caught it, but he who caught it chased it.” ~South African Proverb

This Weblog is designed to briefly introduce and then direct to the various and related work activities of Dr. Alan Taylor (Oxon) in the specialist areas of Film Studies and Media Education as these have developed from the UK, to Germany, Eastern Europe and now South Africa.

I have focused my teaching on film & media since graduating from both the London Film School and then the Department of Education at Oxford University.

Through this time I have sought for both breadth and depth of teaching practice & pedagogic experience.

This has therefore extended from UK Secondary & Further Education to HE teaching in Europe.  At the core of my pedagogic practice is an abiding enagement with Media Literacy. Publications during this time have therefore included: `We, the media…` and `Jacobean Visions: Webster, Hitchcock & Google Culture`(2007).

My role in South Africa combines script consulting, external course evaluation, and teaching film theory.

As well as professional teacher, I am also a member of the International Federation of Journalists, the Oxford Education Society and the University Film and Video Association.

 

Further updates and website additons will no doubt cover the move southwards to South Africa. I look forward to hearing from colleagues for future collaborations in publishing, community outreach & extending pedagogic practice in aspects of film production, media literacy & teacher training.

Thanks for visiting…

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ALAN TAYLOR

E: a.taylor@balliol.oxon.org

 

“Men perish when they are not able to join their beginning with their end” Alcmaeon, 500 B.C

Series Book Editor

21st Century Media Praxis and Cultural Narratives of Africa

“Contemporary events across the African continent already underscore how digital technologies, online networks and IT cultures can generate challenges to assumed fixed social, political and economic structures.

The timely remit of this new book series for Peter Lang Academic Publishers is therefore to provide established authors and, more importantly, the newly emerging generation of academics and scholars – both within and outside Africa – with a explorative trans-disciplinary platform that will capture such developments as they impact upon and emerge from familiar fields of film, arts, drama, literature, and journalism.

Books, monographs, and collated editions in the series – whether focused on hot-topic issues as identity, diasporas, creative activities, or social networking – will be framed by research advances in media education and the pivotal role they are to play in the healthy and productive future of the continent.

Quality assurance is assured by both initial editor screening and blind refereeing by at least two experts of international standing.”

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