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APCLC Research Fellow Dr. James Ko won General Research Fund (GRF) Grant

APCLC Research Fellow Dr. James Ko won General Research Fund (GRF) of HK$1,369,000, funded by Research Grants Council, the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The research grant is for a 36-month study entitled "Effective Teaching and Their Effects on Early Childhood Development: A Comparative, Longitudinal, Mixed-method Study of Hong Kong and Finnish Kindergartens”. It aims to:

(1)

Examine the relationships between effective teaching and childhood development:

a)	Whether children can learn more from teachers with more positive teacher-student interactions;
b)	Whether child-led, play-based teaching and teacher-led, academically-focused teaching approaches have different impacts;
c)	Whether a dominant type of teaching approach leads to different learning outcomes;

(2)

Examine whether the above relationships change or strengthen over time (follow up over three school years) and whether there are individual differences;

(3)

Understand how school factors and broader contexts affect effective teaching in Finland and Hong Kong; and

(4)

Advance the current practices through extensive result dissemination and professional development workshops.

For more information about the study, please visit:
https://www.eduhk.hk/apclc/research_45.html .