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Dr Haoran Zheng

Lecturer in Early Childhood Education - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Education

Phone: +61 2 6773 5410

Biography

I was awarded my doctorate by Monash University. Framed by Bourdieu’s thinking tools, my thesis has contributed to Australian early childhood education and teacher education by investigating international pre-service teachers’ professional experience in early childhood education.

I am a critical researcher with an enduring interest in socially-just early childhood education. I have been working on multidisciplinary and transnational early childhood research projects exploring children and families' early childhood experiences in diverse backgrounds. In 2022, I received the highly-competitive Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA) grant to conduct an early childhood project entitled, “Teaching diversity through picturebooks”.

My teaching and researching interests are focused on early STEM learning, digital literacy, diversity, early childhood teacher education and early childhood professionalism.

The University of New England respects and acknowledges that its people, courses and facilities are built on land, and surrounded by a sense of belonging, both ancient and contemporary, of the world's oldest living culture. In doing so, UNE values and respects Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of the knowledge capital of Australia. We recognise the strength, resilience and capacity of the Aboriginal community and pay our respects to the Elders past, present and future.