Biography
Dr Hongming Ma is a lecturer in the Institute of Education, Arts and Community at Federation University Australia (Berwick). Before becoming affiliated with Federation, she was a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.
Hongming completed her masters and PhD study at Monash University, with both studies in the field of cross-cultural research in science education. Her main research interests are the nature of science and technology and its role in school science and technology curriculum at different levels, the learning environment and affective learning in science, science teacher education, and the cross-cultural understanding of aforementioned issues.
Hongming has taught widely in her role as a teacher educator. The courses include primary and secondary science, primary technology, schooling and diversity, environmental sustainability education, general curriculum and pedagogy, and professional experiences.
More about Hongming
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
- Master of Education, Monash University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University
- Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Monash University
Areas of interest
- Cultural studies in science education (including cross-cultural understanding and comparative studies)
- The nature of science in science education
- The affective dimension of science teaching and learning and relevant teacher knowledge (including cognitive and socio-cultural influences)
- The pedagogy of teaching science and technology and its relationship with other curricular domains
Areas of expertise
Hongming’s recent research explores the impact and implications of conducting Science education through university-school partnerships and how learner emotional experience in learning science is influenced by the interplay of learner personal interest and the classroom learning environment.
Current
- Master’s student, Federation University Australia, ‘Effective teaching practices to introduce junior primary students to basic Mandarin Chinese’, principal supervisor.
- Master’s student, Federation University Australia, ‘Foundation year transition’, principal supervisor.
- Master’s student, Monash University, 'Exploring the pedagogical reasoning of a physics teacher educator’, associate supervisor.
- Science education
- Curriculum and pedagogy
- Educational psychology
- Publications
A longitudinal study on a place-based school-university partnership: Listening to the voices of in-service teachers
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.tate.2023.104148
Chinese students' decisions to study in Australia after the COVID pandemic-based on the PESTLE factor analysis
- Journals
- DOI reference: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2023.101867