Dr Hongming Ma - Researcher Profile

Biography

Hongming is currently a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University.  She 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/technology and its role in school science/technology curriculum at different levels; affective learning in science and relevant teacher knowledge; cross-cultural understanding of aforementioned issues. She is currently a member of East-Asian Association for Science Education (EASE). She has taught widely in her role as a lecturer in the Faculty of Education. The units include primary and secondary science, primary technology, schooling and diversity, integrating curriculum, general curriculum and pedagogy, and, professional experience. The diverse body of pre-service teachers she has taught includes on-campus and off-campus, undergraduate and postgraduate, primary and secondary education, regional and metropolitan, local, interstate, and international students.

Research & Supervision Interests

I’m interested in issues in science education generally.

Specifically, I’m interested in:

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;

The pedagogy of teaching science/technology and its relationship with other curricular domains


 

Keywords

Cultural study in science education, Affective science teaching and learning, Nature of science

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2009

MASTER OF EDUCATION

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING

Institution: Southwest Jiaotong University

Year awarded: 1995

Publications

Books

Ma, H., 2012, The Images of Science Through Cultural Lenses: A Chinese Study on the Nature of Science, Sense, Rotterdam The Netherlands.

Book Chapters

Ma, H., 2011, Chinese teachers' views of teaching culturally related knowledge in school science, in The Professional Knowledge Base of Science Teaching, eds Deborah Corrigan, Justin Dillon and Richard Gunstone, Springer, The Netherlands, pp. 153-171.

Journal Articles

Ma, H., 2009, Chinese secondary school science teachers' understanding of the nature of science - Emerging from their views of nature, Research in Science Education [P], vol 39, issue 5, Springer, Netherlands, pp. 701-724.

Other

Ma, H., 2008, Chinese secondary school science teachers' images of science - the role of Chinese culture.