Research Overview

My research interests are focused on understanding professionalism in the early years workforce and the synthesis of care and education in early years settings. Building on my earlier research on early childhood professionalism, I employed grounded theory to analyse how early childhood practitioners view their professional identity, and the research findings showed that feminist care ethics have significant roles to play. More recently, I have been focusing on theories of radical education and feminist care ethics to analyse how care and education can be well synthesised in early years settings.

Research Grants

Sunglory Educational Research Institution, Beijing, China.

• Project title: Exploratory research on early childhood practitioners’ understandings of caring: An ethic of care.
• Grant reference number: SEI-QXZ-2022-23

Current Teaching

I was a guest lecturer at Coventry University, UK. (Aug-Sep, 2023)

My main duties included collaboratively designing early childhood learning and development courses with the course leader and other colleagues and taking three teaching sessions for undergraduates.

Thesis Title

Putting politics and ethics first: exploring the linkage with early childhood education (ECE) and the values of participatory democracy and care.

Supervised By

Professor Jo Warin

Qualifications

Preschool teacher certified in Beijing, China

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