Plenary Speaker

Principal Investigator, Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education

Dr Flossie Chua is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero. Her work focuses on understanding how people think about and experience complex ideas and challenges in different contexts. Her research also examines how educators nurture good thinking and practices that develop not just better thinkers, but also learners engaged by a range of topics, relating them to both individual and social needs and aspirations.

Flossie's latest projects explore how: 

1. Strategic and sustained engagement with artistic practice can create supportive conditions for individuals and communities to find personal and broader purpose in times of unprecedented uncertainty and challenge;
2. Good ideas might be brought into action in the contexts of school leadership and student learning by understanding how entrenched beliefs create cognitive distortions and what we might do to avoid or correct them;
3. Catalysing young people’s creative and civic capacities might prompt shifts in the way they see themselves in relation to others and in the way they apply creative impulses to civic challenges.

Flossie holds an Ed.D from Harvard University and is also an Instructor in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

Learn more about Flossie in the video below!