Ching-Ting Hsin

Biography

Dr. Ching-Ting Hsin is an Professor in the Department of Early Childhood Education in Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She has accumulated experiences for more than twenty years from both academia and classrooms. She was a preschool and kindergarten teacher both in Taiwan and in the U.S. Her research involves working with Indigenous communities to improve young children’s literacy in Chinese, Indigenous language, as well as science and engineering practices. She developed and implemented culturally relevant phonological curricula for young Indigenous children, emphasizing their development of literacy and identity. She also developed early STEM curriculum modules to improve Indigenous and mainstream children’s science and engineering practices. Recently, adopting Indigenous knowledge and epistemologies, she developed books for young children to learn Atayal languages.

Dr. Hsin focuses on issues related to children of diverse cultural backgrounds (i.e., Indigenous and new-immigrant children), hoping that more educational resources will be invested in underrepresented communities and achieve the goal of educational equity.

Dr. Hsin has published articles in quality peer-reviewed journals. She received Young Scholar Research Grant Award from Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. She also received research awards for years from her University. Her research interests include early STEM education, sociocultural approaches to literacies, multicultural education, and qualitative research methods.