- Email: f.a.demissie@shu.ac.uk
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Trainer
Dr Fufy Demissie
Thoughtful Trainer, Senior Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University
Fufy has a background as an early years teacher and currently works as a lecturer in early years. Her areas of expertise are the use of the P4C pedagogy in HE and training early years practitioners in dialogic reading techniques.
Fufy is a senior lecturer in early years at Sheffield Hallam University. She came into higher education after 10 years of teaching in early years settings. The majority of her teaching has focused on early years, professional learning and enquiry-based learning. Fufy is a trustee for the Froebel Trust, and a member of Early Education.
Fufy is passionate about the value of dialogic teaching and learning pedagogies across all educational phases. She is a qualified Level 1 trainer for Thoughtful and a member of Think Together Sheffield (TTS).
Fufy has embedded Philosophy for Children (P4C) in a range of higher education contexts, including collaborative professional dialogues, scaffolding student teachers’ facilitation of story books, supporting academic literacy and early years teachers’ understanding of critical thinking.
She is the developer and project director for the Talk with Tales for Children (TWiTCH) programme, an EEF project designed to train early years teachers in dialogic reading principles. TWiTCH draws on dialogic reading and P4C principles.
