Yvonne Liu-Constant

Yvonne Liu-Constant is a Practitioner Specialist at Project Zero. Her work includes Pedagogy of Play, a project focused on cultivating school cultures that value and support learning through play, and Good Starts, a qualitative research study exploring how young children learn to think beyond themselves.

Yvonne is trained as a cultural researcher and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese, and English. She co-authored A Pedagogy of Play: Supporting Playful Learning in Classrooms and Schools, which she also translated into Chinese. Her published research includes a comparative study of childrearing practices among Chinese immigrant and European American parents. She has also translated into English the Taiwanese children’s books Run, Little Hei Hei, Run and Who’s Singing by the Sea?

An early childhood educator at heart, Yvonne loves teaching children just as much as she enjoys working with teachers. She has taught children ages 3 to 8 in both independent and public schools, as well as adults in undergraduate and graduate programs. Currently, she teaches at the Boston Teacher Residency and Lesley University, where she previously served as Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education.