Susie Kung • The Asian Conference on Education (ACE)

Biography

Susie Kung has been in education since 1980 and in teacher education for over 26 years. She has been teaching within the Bachelor of Education programme at The Manukau Institute of Technology, New Zealand, since 2006. She is a Senior Lecturer attached to the School of Education and is also the Academic Lead overseeing the provision of pastoral care, as well as the retention and success of four programmes in the Institute’s School of Education. She has substantial experience in the field both in Malaysia and New Zealand.

Ms Kung’s passion for teacher education includes her research on effective tertiary teaching-learning spaces and, more recently, blended teaching-learning environments during the COVID-19 pandemic; teacher identity and teacher motivation, preparing student teachers for a fast-changing, diverse world, and a reconsideration of teacher education as a holistic endeavour. Case study and narrative approaches to research are her methodologies of choice, but she has a special interest in the Appreciative Inquiry approach to research and has used this methodology for a number of her research projects. She is currently investigating the role of teacher identity, teacher motivation, and the teacher’s perception of advocacy in the teaching role.