Research Impact Clusters

Department of Early Childhood Education holds 6 Research Impact Clusters (RICs) funded by the Faculty of Education Human Development. These RICs aim to extend our research and knowledge exchange benefiting various stakeholders in the community including children, parents, schools, and organizations locally, regionally, and internationally. Throughout collaboration initiatives and community connections building, our RICs engage the members within the Department, across departments in the Faculty, and also in the community.

Research Impact Clusters (RICs) are formed in the below 5 areas:

Arts and Creativity
Children development
Family and Community
Health Promotion and Well-being
Pedagogy and Professional Development

Arts and Creativity Arts and Creativity

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Book to be published in Mar 2025	Bautista, A., Siu, C., Tam, P., & Wong, B. (Ed.) (2025). Arts and Creativity in East and Southeast Asian Preschools: Towards ‘Glocal’ Pedagogies. Springer.
Published article 1	Yeung, J., Bautista, A., Siu, C., Tam, P., & Wong, B. (2022). Arts and creativity in Hong Kong kindergartens: A document analysis of quality review reports. Creativity. Theories – Research – Applications, 9(1), 87-107. https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2022-0005
Published article 2	Wong, J., Bautista, A., Ho, Y.-L., & Kong, S.-H. (2023). Preschool teachers’ music-specific professional development preferences: Does teaching experience matter? Research Studies in Music Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1321103X221139992
Published article 3	Yeung, J., & Bautista, A. (2024). Arts education in Hong Kong kindergartens: Provision of activities and impact of teachers’ demographics. Arts Education Policy Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2024.2336514
Published article 4	Yeung, J., & Bautista, A. (2023). Hong Kong preschool stakeholders’ perspectives on the teaching and learning of arts and creativity. Pedagogy, Culture & Society. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2023.2190751
Published article 5	Ho, Y.-L., & Bautista, A. (2024). Quality assessors’ feedback and recommendations on music education in Hong Kong kindergartens. Education Sciences, 14(5), 466. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050466
Published article 6	Ho, Y.-L., & Bautista, A. (2022). Music activities in Hong Kong kindergartens: A content analysis of the quality review reports. Revista Electrónica de LEEME, 49, 32-49. https://doi.org/10.7203/LEEME.49.24249
Published article 7	Bautista, A., Yeung, J., Mclaren, M., & Ilari,B. (2022). Music in early childhood teacher education: Raising awareness of a worrisome reality and proposing strategies to move forward. Arts Education Policy Review, 125(3), 139-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2022.2043969
Published article 8	Bautista, A., & Ho, Y.-L. (2021). Music and movement teacher professional development: An interview study with Hong Kong kindergarten teachers. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 46(3), 276–290. https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391211014759
Published article 9	Yeung, J. and Bautista, A. (2024) Definitions of Creativity by Kindergarten Stakeholders: An Interview Study Based on Rhodes’ 4P Model. Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications, University of Bialystok, 11(2), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2024-0008

Children Development Children Development

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Published article 1 Link to article	Cheung, S. K., Siu, T.‑S. C., & Caldwell, M. P. (2023). Mathematical ability at a very young age: The contributions of relationship quality with parents and teachers via children’s language and literacy abilities. Early Childhood Education Journal, 51, 705-715. doi: 10.1007/s10643-022-01338-x
Published article 2 Link to download	Siu, T.-S. C., Caldwell, M. P., Cheung, S. K., & Cheung, H. (2022). Deliberating on group sizes and child-adult ratios in infant-toddler care and education: Voices of practitioners and parents from Hong Kong. The First Years Ngā Tau Tuatahi, 24(1), 4-10.
Poster presentation 1	Society for Research in Child Development 2023 Biennial Meeting (Salt Lake City, USA) Interactive effects of teacher- child relationships and early childhood learning experiences on children’s pre-academic skills
Poster presentation 2	International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development 26^th Biennial Meeting (Rhodes, Greece) Gendered pathways to socioemotional competencies and behaviors in very young children: The roles of parent- child closeness and teacher- child closeness
Poster presentation 3	Hong Kong Educational Research Association and Asia- Pacific Educational Research Association International Conference 2021 (Virtual) Evaluating structural and process qualities of infant and toddlers rooms in Hong Kong
Poster presentation 4	Hong Kong Educational Research Association and Asia- Pacific Educational Research Association International Conference 2021 (Virtual) Relations of parent-child and teacher-child relationships to very young children’s mathematical abilities: The mediating role of receptive vocabulary

Family and Community Family and Community

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Knowledge Transfer Booklet

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Health Promotion and Well-being Health Promotion and Well-being

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Published article 1 Link to article Link to download	Wan AWL, Chung KKH, Li J-B, Xu SS and Chan DKC (2024) An assessment tool for the international healthy eating report card for preschool-aged children: a cross-cultural validation across Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Front. Nutr. 11:1340007. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2024.1340007
Published article 2 Link to article Link to download	Wan, A. W., Chung, K. K., Li, J., & Chan, D. K. (2024). Healthy Eating Report Card for Pre-school Children in Hong Kong. Hong Kong Medical Journal. https://doi.org/10.12809/hkmj2210649
Press Release Link to download	A healthy eating report card for pre-school children in Hong Kong grades children’s eating behaviours and family home food environment (21 May 2024)
Published article 3 Link to article Link to download	Chiu, R. M. Y., Capio, C., Hagger, M. S., Yung, P. S., Ip, P., Lai, A. Y. K., & Chan, D. K. C. (2023). Grandparent Caregivers’ Adherence towards Preventing Childhood Domestic Injuries: A test of the Integrated Model of Self-Determination Theory and Theory of Planned Behaviour. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4330164

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Cheung, S.K., Chan, W.W.L. & Fong, R.Wt. Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies and children’s early numeracy competence: the mediating roles of children’s executive functions and numeracy interest. Eur J Psychol Educ 38, 1185–1200 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-022-00640-x

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Resource Portal Website

https://www.hkidsmove.info/

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Mak TCT, Chan DKC, Capio CM. Strategies for Teachers to Promote Physical Activity in Early Childhood Education Settings-A Scoping Review. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jan 20;18(3):867. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18030867. PMID: 33498374; PMCID: PMC7908495.

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Leung, F.Y.W., Chan, D.K.C., Mak, T.C.T., Capio, C.M. Early Childhood Educators’ Physical Literacy Predict Their Self-Efficacy and Perceived Competence to Promote Physical Activity. Early Education and Development. doi: 10.1080/10409289.2023.2243187

Pedagogy and Professional Development Pedagogy and Professional Development

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Published article 1	Yang, W., Wang, C., & Bautista, A. (2024). A YouTube video club for teacher learning: Empowering early childhood educators to teach STEM. British Journal of Educational Technology, 55, 605–624. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13396
Published article 2	Yang, W., Wang, C., Lin, C., & Bautista, A. (2024). Teacher learning and preschoolers’ STEM habits of mind: Evidence from two studies. Teaching and Teacher Education, 153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2024.104836
Conference paper presentation	Wang, C., Yang, W., & Chiu, M. M. (2024, April 11–14). Teachers’ STEM knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs predict children’s STEM habits of mind: A multilevel model [Paper presentation]. 2024 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action" (AERA 2024), Philadelphia, United States.
Published article 3 Link to download	Hu, X., Fang, Y., & Liang, Y. (2024). Roles and Effect of Digital Technology on Young Children’s STEM Education: A Scoping Review of Empirical Studies. Education Sciences, 14(4), 357. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14040357
Published article 4	Xu, R., Bautista, A., & Yang, W. (2023). Learning Satisfaction with Online Teaching Video Cases Among Pre-Service Preschool Teachers in China. Early Education and Development, 35(1), 77–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2023.2214163
Published article 5 Link to download	Xu, R., Bautista, A., & Yang, W. (2024). Learning with Online Teaching Video Cases: Investigating Pre-Service Preschool Teachers’ Perceived Usefulness and Needs. Education Sciences, 14(5), 479. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14050479
Published article 6 Link to download	Yang W, Bautista A and Li H (2023) Editorial: Curriculum-based professional learning in early childhood education: conceptualization, implementation and evaluation. Front. Psychol. 14:1252236. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1252236
Published article 7 Link to download	Saxena A and Chiu MM (2022) Developing Preschool Teachers’ Computational Thinking Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Teaching Self-Efficacies: A Curriculum-Based Professional Development Program. Front. Educ. 7:889116. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.889116

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Poster Presentation 1

The Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, United States.

Sun, J., & Wang, Y. (2023, March 23-25). From professional experiences and qualifications to professional practices: The case of early childhood mathematics education [Poster presentation].

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