Past Projects

Past Projects
Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling

Pandemic Learning

Pandemic Learning

Teacher Education

Teacher Education

TNE Hong Kong/Macao

TNE Hong Kong/Macao

TNE Inland China

TNE Inland China

TNE South China

TNE South China

Building on assets: A netnography of a cross-border, online biliteracy curriculum

This project responded to two of SSHRC’s major future challenge areas: 1) harnessing new media and technologies and 2) strengthening Canada’s global connectivity through a close examination of biliteracy curricula.

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Collective biography: Learning during the pandemic. Faculty Research Development Fund, Western University.

The study employed a collective biography methodology to make sense of what and how learning opportunities were produced at home in Stage I (learning at home during the lockdown in Spring and Summer) and Stage II (online and face-to-face learning in the Fall).

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Transnational exploration of English education: Hong Kong and Canadian English student teachers connected through Open Educational Resources

This research linked 47 Hong Kong and 35 Canadian teacher candidates in a new participatory culture project within the theoretical framework of new media literacies. This research reports the qualitative data with quantitative descriptions of participants’ social interactivity within the cross-border communities of practice.

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A Multiliteracies perspective: Trajectory of literacy curricula in Canadian transnational education programmes in Hong Kong and Macao.

This study adopted the theoretical orientations of decolonizing curriculum and posthumanism to study the English and Mandarin literacy curricula at a Canadian transnational education program in the post-colonial Hong Kong.

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A multiple case study of literacy curricula in Canadian transnational education programs in China

Canada is seeking to enhance its global competitiveness in transnational education: education delivered by an institution from one country to students located in another. Yet Canada’s attempt is coming at a time when there is scant literature about what happens to curricula when they go abroad.

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The changing landscape of literacy curriculum in a Sino-Canada transnational education programme: an actor-network theory informed case study

This is an exploratory and interpretive case study of the literacy curricula in a Canadian transnational education programme delivered in China where Ontario secondary school curricula were used at the same time as the Chinese national high school curricula.

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About us

About us

Dr. Zheng Zhang and her team have committed to transnational and international education studies (TIES). Our research and educational projects advocate global connectedness, technological innovations, and youth’s digital literacy development in the 21st century.

Our expansive research areas include: cross-border, bilingual digital storytelling; transnational education (e.g., Canadian offshore schools; Sino-Canada and Sino-Foreign cooperative education); cross-border literacy teacher education; and literacy and biliteracy curriculum and pedagogies.

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Expertise Areas

Expertise Areas

Our research interests include literacy and biliteracy curriculum and pedagogy, curriculum studies of transnational education, English academic writing, and cross-border teacher education undergirded by new media literacies.

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Curriculum Studies

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Teacher Education

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Multiliteracies

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Transnational Education