Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Education


   Dr. Bonnie Yim

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Position Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education
Email b.yim@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Education
Phone +61 3 522 72659
Campus Geelong
Location Waurn Ponds - ic3. 208
Role and profile Course Co-ordinator:
-Bachelor of Early Childhood Education
-Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Honours)
Teaching responsibilities Unit Chair:
- ECE110 Child Development 1
- ECE210 Child Development 2
- ECE303 Children as Individuals
- ESE499 Independent Project
- EXR481 Education Research Methodology
- EXR491 Designing And Developing A Research Project
- EXR478 Theory in Education Research
- EXR479 Independent Reading Study
- EXR498 Minor Thesis Part A
- EXR499 Minor Thesis Part B
PhD - Higher Degree by Research Program
Research interests Child development
Curriculum development and evaluation
Teacher education
Early childhood education and policy
Cross-cultural research
Research methods in early childhood
Active learning engagement of young children
Arts education
Current research projects Using video to improve pre-service teachers' understanding of
children under 3

Touch screen usage by young children

Implications of restructuring of Early Childhood Education for
teacher professional development

Teaching and learning issues of undergraduate early
childhood education courses

Music and Young Children: An Examination of Curriculum
Practices in Early Childhood Education (aged 3-5 years) in
Regional Queensland
Awards 2010 - Best Collaborative Research Project, Industry
Partnership Study with SEED, Singapore, UniSA

2008 - Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student
Learning, Transnational Teaching Team, UniSA
Qualifications Doctor of Philosophy (UniSA)
Master of Philosophy (HKBU)
Postgraduate Diploma in Education (CUHK)
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) (HKBU)
Memberships Early Childhood Australia
ECTA -Early Childhood Teachers' Association, Queensland
NAEYC -National Association for the Education of Young Children
PECERA - Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
OMEP -Organisation Mondiale pour l'Education Prescolaire
QCoT -Queensland College of Teachers
VOSA -Victoria Orff Schulwerk Association
Conferences Three most recent:

Yim, H. Y. B. (2012, 18 July). Applying research to practical
contexts: Assessment of young children’s learning (Invited
presentation). Workshop presented at the SEED Institute,
Singapore.

Yim, H. Y. B. (2011, 15 December). Measuring children’s
engagement as an indicator of curriculum effectiveness: Why
and how (Invited presentation). Paper presented at the
Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association
(PECERA) Seminar, Yiu Chung International School, Hong Kong.

Yim, H. Y. B. (2010, 20-21 October). Early childhood
education: Policy, teaching and learning issues (Keynote
address). Paper presented at the Indonesia International
Early Childhood Education Conference & Exhibition "Providing
Quality Education for all our Children", Jakarta, Indonesia.
Publications

Three most recent:

Ebbeck, M., Yim, H. Y. B., & Lee, L. W. M. (2013). Play-based
learning. In D. Pendergast & S. Garvis (Eds.), Teaching early
years: Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment (pp. 185-200):
Sydney: Allen & Unwin.

Yim, H. Y. B., Lee, L. W. M., & Ebbeck, M. (2013). Preservation
of Confucian values in early childhood education: A study of
experts’ and educators’ views. Asia-Pacific Journal of
Research in Early Childhood Education, 7(1), 51-68.

Ebbeck, M., Winter, P., Russo, S., Yim, H. Y. B., Teo, G. L. C.,
& Goh, M. (2012). Measuring children’s involvement as an
indicator of curriculum effectiveness: A curriculum evaluation of
a selected Child Study Centre in Singapore. Early Child
Development and Care, 182(5), 609-619.

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22nd April 2013