Professor Julie Fisher on Interacting or Interfering?

Professor Julie Fisher explains the – often subtle – differences between interacting and interfering when communicating with young children.

Professor Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University. She was a lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Reading and was then an Early Years Adviser in Oxfordshire for 11 years. She has taught children from 3 to 12 years of age and has been headteacher of two urban, multi-cultural schools.

Her latest book – ‘Interacting or Interfering?’ – draws on research into effective interactions between practitioners and children aged six months to six years. In this video, we discuss some top tips and strategies for practitioners and educators that emerged from this research; the role of the environment in stimulating interactions; the role of the practitioner during interactions with children; how we ‘tune into’ children; techniques for ‘questioning’ children.

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You can find Professor Fisher’s book on Amazon here

 As well as writing books, Julie is also an author of a number of articles on early childhood education. You can find her latest series of four articles in Nursery World magazine here: https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk

For a taster of the Nursery World articles, there is an extract below from the first article entitled The Adult Role. You can also register for a free seven-day trial of Nursery World, during which you can access all the gated content on nurseryworld.co.uk. Simply click this link and complete the form: https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/register#