Dr
Mun Yee LaiProfile page
Senior Lecturer
Education
BIO
Mun Yee is the current Course Director of all Primary Teacher Education programs at UTS. Mun Yee has extensive experience and lectures in both primary and secondary mathematics education in Australia and Hong Kong. She is a productive high-performing education researcher with a broad range of contributions that are captured under the keywords of ‘mathematics education’, ‘diverse linguistic background’ and ‘teacher professional development’. While continuing to contribute to these overarching fields, her contributions have expanded to become more numerous and recognized in the areas of knowledge for mathematics teaching, mathematics teachers’ learning in different professional development activities, primary school students’ mathematics understanding of decimal numbers and STEM education. Her research is qualitative in nature but also incorporates quantitative data when necessary. Over her decade of being a researcher, she has embraced a number of new methodologies in social sciences research, which has afforded her opportunities to pioneer the use of innovative new methods, such as eye-tracking approach and engineering design approach, and analyse data using difference conceptual frameworks/lens, such as Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Expansive Learning.
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY ORGANISATIONAL UNITS MEMBERSHIP
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China2 Sep 2002 - 25 Nov 2008
- Master of Education (Mathematics Education) with distinctionUniversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China1 Sep 1999 - 29 Nov 2001
- Bachelor of Education (major in Mathematics Education) with First Class HonoursUniversity of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kindom2 Sep 1996 - 3 Jul 1997
CERTIFICATIONS
- Teacher CertificateEducation University of Hong Kong (renamed), Tai Po, Chinamajor in Mathematics Education, minor in Science Education
LANGUAGES
- Chinese (Cantonese)Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- Chinese (Mandarin)Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision