2021 SCIPIE Conference Keynote Speaker Bios
Clark Chinn, Ph.D.
Dr. Chinn is a Professor at the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. His research focuses on epistemic cognition, reasoning and argumentation, learning from multiple documents, conceptual change, and collaborative learning. His most recent work has focused on how to promote the goals of epistemic education—education that improves students’ ways of knowing and thinking—with a particular focus on promoting better thinking in our so-called “post-truth” world. He has worked extensively on model-based inquiry in middle-school science classes--designing learning environments and investigating how these environments promote conceptual change and epistemic growth. He was Editor of the journal Educational Psychologist from 2011 to 2015. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and of the American Psychological Association (Division 15—Educational Psychology).
Thomas Teo, Ph.D.
Dr. Teo is professor of psychology in the Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Studies of Psychology Program at York University, Toronto, Canada. He has been active in the advancement of theoretical, critical, and historical psychology throughout his professional career. His research has been meta-psychological to provide a more reflexive understanding of the foundations, trajectories, and possibilities of human subjectivity. He was born in in London, England and earned his Mag. rer. nat. and Dr. phil. in psychology from the University of Vienna in Austria. From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a post-doc and research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Education in Berlin, Germany. He started his professional track at York University in Canada in 1996. He is co-editor of the Review of General Psychology (Sage), editor of the Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology, and co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology. He is former president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology, of the American Psychological Association’s Society of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (Division 24), and former chair of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the Canadian Psychological Association. He is Fellow of CPA and APA. He has research record with more than 300 academic publications, refereed, and invited presentations. His research program contributes to the psychological humanities.