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“I am a researcher and an educator teaching in higher education. I got my doctoral degree major in Early Childhood Education from The Education University of Hong Kong. Before that, I worked as a lecturer in Qujing Normal University for nearly 5 years in Mainland China. I taught many courses in pre-service and in-service teachers\u2019 training programmes. I participated in or took charge of a few research projects, and my research interests focus on exploring what are kindergarten teachers\u2019 beliefs on early literacy learning and instruction, how early literacy was taught in kindergartens, how to support teachers\u2019 professional development, etc.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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Selected Research Projects:<\/b><\/p>\r\n

2011 Ding. X.D., Zhou, J. D., Yin, M., Gao, Q., Wen, Y. L., & Sun, C.R. An investigation of early childhood education development in Yunnan. Yunnan.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2013 Blaise, M., Leung, W.M.V., & Sun, C.R. Working with partial perspectives: De-colonising and de-imperialising research in the early years. Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2018 Sun, C.R., Cheung, H. P. R., & Zou, S. J. An investigation of Kindergarten teachers\u2019 beliefs of Chinese early literacy Instruction. Yunnan. (Principal investigator)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

2019 Sun, C.R., & Ho, K. L. Practicing what they preach: Relationship between student teachers\u2019 beliefs and practices on early Chinese literacy instruction. Macao Foundation (MF\/2019\/45). (Principal investigator)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Selected Publications:<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Tam, P. C., & Sun, C. (2021). Transforming struggling reform implementers into effectual reform agents: Hong Kong preschool teachers\u2019 voices.\u00a0Youth Theatre Journal<\/i>, 1-14.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Blaise, M., Leung, W. M. & Sun, C.R. (2013). Views from somewhere: situated knowledge and partial perspectives in a Hong Kong kindergarten classroom. <\/span>Global Studies of Childhood<\/span><\/i>, 3(1), 12-25.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Selected communications:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2019). A comparison of early childhood language education curriculum between Hong Kong and Macao. Paper Presented in The 6th Cross-Straits and Hong Kong-Macao Comparative Education Forum. Macao.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2019). Kindergarten teacher\u2019s beliefs about chinese early literacy instruction. Paper Presented in The 20th Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association International Conference. Taipei.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2018). Kindergarten teachers\u2019 beliefs about their readiness for early STEM education—-Comparison between East and West in China. Paper presented at the 2018 Spring Annual Conference of The Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2018). Chinese children\u2019s images of the ideal English teacher. Paper presented at the International Conference on English Language Education in the Chinese Context, Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2015). Teachers\u2019 beliefs and practices of Chinese literacy learning in kindergarten. Paper presented at the international postgraduate research Conference and summer school in education, Humanities and social sciences 2015, Hong Kong.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sun, C. R. (2014). Truth and power: reflections on Chinese early literacy education in China and evidences from the interviews of a kindergarten teacher. Paper presented at the Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association 15th Annual Conference, Bali.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Current major research project:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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