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About

I'm an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of childhood, education, and human flourishing. My work asks a simple but overlooked question: how does the way we understand children shape the institutions we build around them?

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Drawing on philosophy, education theory, and years of direct work in schools, I study how assumptions about childhood — often unspoken — shape classrooms, leadership practices, and the future possibilities we imagine for young people. My aim is to bring more rigor and more humanity to how institutions think about the children in their care.

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10+

Years in Education

400+

Students Taught

6

Countries

60+

Teachers Mentored

5

Disciplines

Children are not preparation for humanity. They are human themselves.

My research challenges inherited assumptions that position childhood as a stage before full humanity. By rethinking children as a complete human condition, I explore how education, institutions and public life can better support human flourishing.

Research

  • Qualitative Research

  • ​Quantitative Research

  • Interdisciplinary methodology

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Teacher Development

  • Democratic Pedagogy

  • Practical Inquiry​

  • Teacher as a Possible Being

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Educational Strategy

  • Vision and organisation strategy 

  • Innovation opportunities

  • Market Distinction

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Public Scholarship

  • Essays

  • Lectures

  • Public Thought

Selected Collaborations

New York University

German European School Singapore

Perediza

Newington-Cropsey Foundation

Felix Leuschner Inc

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© 2026 by Priscilla Priya

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