Dr Norman B. Mendoza, Assistant Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been awarded the Faculty of Education and Human Development’s International Collaborative Research Fellowship (ICRF) 2025/26 for his project, Growth-Oriented Teaching in Context: Toward Culturally Adaptive Mindset Interventions for Teacher Education. The fellowship includes HK$199,500 over 12 months to support international collaboration with Prof. David S. Yeager, Raymond Dickson Centennial Professor at The University of Texas at Austin.
The grant will be used to support teaching relief, open access publishing, and travel directly related to the collaboration. Through the fellowship, the project will advance research on growth-oriented teaching by examining how mindset-informed approaches can be adapted across cultural contexts for teacher education. Planned outputs include co-authored journal publications, the development of an external funding application, and the co-development of a culturally adaptive intervention framework for teacher education. Dr Mendoza’s research is at the intersection of Educational Psychology and Formative Assessment, particularly in self-regulation, motivation, and socio-emotional learning and the contexts that foster these positive learning outcomes.
