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Kok-Sing Tang

Associate Professor
Curtin University

Kok-Sing Tang is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and the Discipline Lead of STEM Education at Curtin University. He received a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan. His research examines the role of language, discourse and representations in supporting scientific literacy. Kok-Sing has published in numerous top journals and is currently an editorial board member of Science Education.

Subjects: Education

Biography

Kok-Sing Tang is an Associate Professor at the School of Education and the Discipline Lead of the STEM Education Research Group at Curtin University. He received a BA and MSc in Physics from the University of Cambridge and a MA and PhD in Education from the University of Michigan. His research examines the role of language, discourse and representations in supporting scientific literacy.

Kok-Sing has published in and reviewed for numerous top journals, including Science Education, Cognition & Instruction and Journal of Engineering Education. He is currently an editorial board member of Science Education. He is also a founding leader of a SIG called Languages & Literacies in Science Education, established in 2017 within the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA). His latest book is Discourse strategies for science teaching and learning: Research and practice in the prestigious Teaching and Learning in Science Series by Routledge.

Education

    PhD and MA, University of Michigan, USA, 2011
    Ba and MSc, University of Cambridge, UK, 1998

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

    Topics: Scientific Literacy, Multimodality, Classroom Discourse, Science Explanation & Argumentation, STEM Education, Disciplinary Literacy

    Theories: Social Semiotics, Systemic Functional Linguistics, Actor-Network Theory, Vygotsky Sociocultural Theory

    Methods: Discourse Analysis, Multimodal Analysis, Video Analysis, Design Research

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Books

Featured Title
Featured Title - Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching & Learning - 1st Edition book cover
Handbook Dialogic Education, Mercer - 1st Edition book cover

Videos

Introduction to Discourse Strategies

Published: Sep 18, 2020

This is a presentation for a 2020 conference at Australasia Science Education Research Association (ASERA). It is also an introduction to the book "Discourse Strategies for Science Teaching & Learning" published by Routledge.