研究专长

Social and Emotional Development of Young Children

Motor development, motor learning, physical literacy

Health and Well Being

Culture and Children’s Development; Narrative Inquiry and Child Development

Numeracy Development, Socio-emotional Development

Play behaviors, play-based assessment and learning, social emotional development

Working memory, executive functioning, mathematical achievement, cognitive developmental psychology, longitudinal data analyses.

Antecedents, consequences, mechanisms and development of child and youth self-control; Cultural, familial, and individual influences on child and youth psychosocial adjustment

Infants and young children’s social-cognitive development; early sensitivity to music; learning to read

International Comparisons of Early Child Development and Education; Assessment of Early Learning and Development; Interventions for Socially and Economically Disadvantaged Children; Early Self-Regulation Development; Chinese Socialization

Childhood Stress and Coping; Parents, Teachers and Children's Role in Helping Children to Cope with Stress at School

Teacher professional development, classroom practices, early childhood teacher education, music education, teacher-child interaction

Curriculum and Assessment of Visual Arts

Pre-Primary Music

Music Education; ICT in Music Education

Drama Education

Play and Learning

Transition; Infants and Toddlers Curriculum

ICT in ECE setting

Healthy Eating

Contemporary Early Childhood Teaching Approaches

Teaching Approaches

Information Communication Technology; Play-based Learning; Curriculum  

Learning and Teaching; Curriculum Planning

Curriculum and Pedagogy; New Technologies in Teaching

ECE Curriculum

Computational Thinking in ECE; ICT in ECE as developmentally appropriate practice.

Contemporary Approaches in Teaching and Learning in ECE; Curriculum Development

Culture and Family Processes of Child Development; Developmental Psychopathology

Family Relationships 

Parental Involvement; Home-School Collaboration; School Transition

Childhood studies, parent-school engagement, violence in family, school and community contexts, cultural studies in education

Reading, Speech perception, Bilingualism

Learning Chinese Characters; Phenomenography and Variation Theory; Designing Technology for Learning

Improving students Second/foreign language proficiency

Second Language Acquisition; Home Literacy; Collaboration between Native English Teachers (NET ) and Local Teachers

Early Writing Development in Chinese

Second Language Acquisition, English Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood

Language and Literacy in Early Childhood Education

Early Literacy Development, Chinese as a L1 and L2, English as a L1 and L2

Leadership and Management; Technologies and Innovative Pedagogies; Early Childhood Education

Sustainability of Human Capital in Early Childhood Education

Leadership in Early Childhood Education; Professional Development 

Learning & Teaching in Early Childhood Education

Leadership and Management, Teacher Training and Job Stress

Art Therapy

Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dyslexia 

Learning difficulties in particular to dyslexia; Literacy acquisition; Assessment and instruction; Cognitive, social, and emotional development; Early child development and education, and Psycholinguistics.

Early Childhood Special Education, Brain Development, Neuroscience in Early Childhood Education

Reading Comprehension Difficulties

Inclusive Education; Early Childhood Special Education

Linguistic Characteristic of Children with High Functioning Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Inclusive and Special Education, Learning and Teaching

How to help SEN students from training

Emotions

Teacher Development

Child Health and Mental Health