Julie Fisher
Honorary fellowship
Year conferred: 2005
Julie Fisher is an independent Early Years Adviser and visiting Professor of Early Childhood Education at Oxford Brookes University. Julie has a national reputation as an advocate for early education. She held the post of Early Years Adviser in Oxfordshire for 11 years during which time she was chair of the Early Years Curriculum Group and the National Association of Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants Early Childhood Group. In 2001 she became the first elected chair of the national Early Childhood Forum a coalition of 45 professional associations, charities and interest groups united in their concern for the care and education of young children.
Before moving to Oxfordshire, Julie was lecturer in early childhood education at the University of Reading. She has taught children from 3 to 12 years and has been headteacher of two urban, multi-cultural schools.
Julie is author of a number of articles on early childhood education as well as her books ‘Starting from the Child’ (3rd edn. 2008) ‘The Foundations of Learning’ (2002) and ‘Moving On to Key Stage 1’ (2010) (Open University Press).
