Introduction

I am currently an associate professor at the School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; meanwhile, I hold the title of Docent from the University of Helsinki. Previously, I worked as a University Researcher at the Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki.

I did my Ph.d. (educational psychology) at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. During my Ph.d., I specifically focused on teaching practices, classroom observation, reading skills and development, motivations in Finnish and Estonian schools. Before that, I got my M.Ed. (Developmental Psychology) and B.S. (Information and Computing Science) in China.

In general, I am interested in understanding how students are motivated to learn in the school, and how the school environment and teaching practices can help them to reach it.