Taiwanese team

Chao-Jung Lin

Associate professor

Department of Early Childhood Educare,

Ching-Kuo Institute of Management and Health

Keelung, Taiwan

Professor Lin's main interest is in the changes in children’s agency of perception as children get older. She has been in the project from the early stages, starting with the testing of the instruments,

Hui-Chun Lee

Professor

Tzu Chi University

Hualien, Taiwan

Professor Lee specializes on the agentive perception and pedagogical issues. Dr. Lee visited Finland in 2009 and again in 2011 presenting Taiwanese early childhood education practicies and research, especially on documenting. Dr. Lee has been a central figure in the creation and development of the project. .

Li-Chen Wang

Professor

Department of Early Childhood Educare

Keelung, Taiwan

Professor Wang has been an active partner from the very beginning (2008). She visited Helsinki in 2009 and is mainly responsible for studying children’s agentive perception in different situations. One of her interests is the application of qualitative methods on children’s interview data. She is also interested in the outdoor play.

Dr. Rosalind Wu

National Academy for Educational Research

Sanxia, Taiwan

Dr. Wu is the scientific and methodological adviser, scaffolding us forward. She has contributed both on the theoretic and the practical instruments of the research. Her specific interests are in child development (both in agentive and adaptive development), communication and learning to read and write. Dr. Wu visited Finland in 2011 and focused on scaffolded play.

Wann-Yi Mau

Associate professor

Department of Early Childhood Educare,

Ching-Kuo Institute of Management and Health

Keelung, Taiwan

Dr. Mou has participated in the instrument developing, training of the observers and interviewers and data analysis. Her main interests are gender issues, how boys and girls perceive agency and how this perception is related in their action, peer relations and in learning environment. She is also involved in the comparison of agentive perception between Finnish and Taiwanese children.