Len Clive "Kim" Taylor (4 August 1922 in

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– 20 July 2013 in

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) was a

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Educationalist. He was headmaster at

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before being appointed as Director of the ''Resources for Learning'' Project at the Nuffield Foundation. He then worked at the Centre for Educational Resources and Innovation. Taylor was born in India under the

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. However he was sent to boarding school in England at the age of six, rarely seeing his parents after that. When Kim was nine his father died and the following year he started to attend

, which he soon regarded as home. When the

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commenced, Taylor was 17. He returned to India, taking up a teaching post at St Paul's School, Darjeeling. In 1942 he was commissioned into the

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and served in Burma campaign, being evacuated from

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Works

* (1971) ''Resources for Learning'' London: Penguin Books Ltd * (1972) ''Learning Resources'' Association of Colleges for Further and Higher Education

References

External links

Obituary at Oxford Today
{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Kim 1922 births 2013 deaths 20th-century Indian educators British educational theorists British people in colonial India