Alison Shorer Author

Alison Shorer is a P4C facilitator (SAPERE trained) and Thinking Moves Trainer for DialogueWorks. She specialises in oracy teaching and is a co-founder of Articulacy and TalkTastic. During her career in education, she has been a primary school teacher, given oracy intervention programmes to secondary school students, been a lecturer in language and literacy, and served as a teacher trainer and mentor. Her first degree was reading philosophy, and she has a master's in education.

Katie Quinn is the ‘Philosophy for Children’ (P4C) Lead and SAPERE Trainer at a large city-centre primary school in Exeter. She has worked with senior leadership to link philosophy to the learning and behaviour values already in place, and to develop ways of systematically incorporating it into topic planning, across all year groups and all curriculum areas, from science to maths to religious education. Her first degree was also reading philosophy.