吳淑真博士
助理教授
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PhD HKU
DipPadagogin Tubingen
Research Areas
Play and learning
Comparative Early Childhood Education
Teachers and parents beliefs
Children’s perspectives
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Selected Funded Projects
2011 - 2012

Impacts of Curriculum Policy on Children’s Play and Teachers’ Beliefs in the Hong Kong and German Kindergartens

Selected Outputs
Journal Publications
Refereed Journal Article

2020 Wu, S.-C. (2020).A co-constructed picture of learning in play by teachers and parents. Journal of Early Childhood Research, 15(2), 197–211.

2020 Wu, S.-C. (2020). Humboldt’s Allgemeinbildung and General Education in Hong Kong Universities (洪堡特的普通教育與香港的大學通識教育). Journal of Comparative Education (比較教育), 89, 45-63.

2019 Wu, S.-C. (2019). Teachers’ Involvement in Their Designed Play Activities in a Chinese Context.In S. Faas et al. (Eds): Globalization, Transformation, and Cultures in Early Childhood Educationand Care, Chapter 13. Palgrave Macmillan.

2019 Wu, S.-C. (2019). Researching Children’s Learning and Play in a Chinese Context: Children’sPerspectives on Their Play and Learning. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal,27 (4), 551-565.

2018 Wu, S.-C., Faas, S., & Geiger, S. (2018). Chinese and German teachers’ and parents’ conceptionsof learning at play—similarities, differences, and (in)consistencies. European Early ChildhoodEducation Research Journal, 26(2), 229-245.

2017 Stefan Faas / Shu-chen Wu / Steffen Geiger (2017). The importance of play in early childhood education: A critical perspective on current policies and practices in Germany and Hong Kong in the context of an overall international reform movement.Global Education Review, 4(2), 75-91.

2015 Wu, S. -C. (2015). What Can Chinese and German Children Tell Us About Their Learning and Play in Kindergarten?.Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 29, 1-14.

2014 Wu, Shu-Chen (2014). Practical and conceptual aspects of children’s play in Hong Kong and German kindergartens.Early Years: an international research journal, 34(1), 49-66.

2011

Wu, S. –C. & Rao, N. (2011). Chinese and German teachers’ conceptions of play and learning and children’s play behaviour. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, vol. 19 issue 3, September, 2011.


2011

Wu, S. –C. (2011). The Role of Free Play in the German Kindergartens. The Hong Kong Journal of Early Childhood, 10(1), 85-90.




Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
Chapter in an edited book

2012

Cheng, P. W. & Wu, S.-C. (2012). Serious learners or serious players? Revisiting the concept of learning through play in Hong Kong and German classrooms. The Information Age Publishing Inc.


2011

Wu, S. –C (2011). 強迫學校教育 (compulsory education).


2009

Wu, S. –C. (2009). 福祿貝爾哲學思想對幼稚園教育的影響 (The influence of Frobel’s philosophy on kindergarten education). In G. Lau (Ed.), 幼教哲人哲理的足跡 (Foot-tracks of Philosophers and their Theoretical Perspectives on Early Childhood Curriculum and Practise). Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Institute of Education.


2005

Wu. S. –C. (2005). Play in German and Hong Kong kindergartens: teachers' and parents' conceptions of its value. In K. R. Katyal, H. C. Lam & X. Ding (ed.), Research studies in education (Vol. 3, pp. 168-180). Hong Kong: Faculty of Education, the University of Hong Kong.



Conference Papers
Refereed Conference Paper

2012

Wu, S.-C. (2012, June). “Playing to Learn in the German Kindergartens before the Implementation of Curricular Plan” , paper presented at the International conference A Child’s World – Working Together for a Better Future, organized by the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom.


2008

Wu, S. –C., & Rao, N. (2008, July). “Play and learning in Hong Kong and German Kindergartens”, poster session presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, Wurzburg.


2008

Wu, S. –C., & Rao, N. (2008, January). “Play and learning in Hong Kong and German Kindergartens”, paper presented at the 16th International Play Association World Conference, Hong Kong.


2005

Wu, S. –C. (2005, July). “An Observation Study on Play Patterns in Hong Kong Kindergartens“ („Eine beobachtende Studie uber die Spielformen in Hong Kong Kindergarten“). Paper presented at the 16th International Play Association World Conference, Berlin.