Dr Hoa Pham

Profile

Hoa Pham holds a PhD in Education from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her thesis was awarded as one of two best theses of the Faculty of Education and one of 18 best theses in entire University of Auckland in 2021. Currently, she works as a lecturer and practitioner in the field of early childhood education in Vietnam. As a Vietnamese researcher, she is dedicated to listening to the everyday voices—which she conceptualizes as "living stories"—of Vietnamese children, their families, and teachers through her research projects and teaching practices. She envisions her mission as transforming Vietnamese ontologies into innovative theories, methodologies, and practices for and with children and teachers.

Research

Publications

Pham, H., & Tesar, M. (2025). Video‐making in English language learning: A kaleidoscope to understand the Vietnamese child's self‐authoring at home. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12926

Pham, H., Phan, A. N. Q., & Tesar, M. (2024). Because of thương: Listening to the voices of Vietnamese early childhood educators. Policy Futures in Education, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14782103241291090

Pham, H & Pham, T. (2023). Understanding the Vietnamese Child’s Authoring the Self through Multimodal Stories; Indonesian Journal of Early Childhood Education Studies (Vol 12 No 2 November) (accepted)

Pham, H., & Gaffney, J. S. (2023). Unfinalizability: An exploration of a young child’s emergent identities through living stories. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949123116

Pham, H. (2022). In the light of interbeing: a storied process of understanding a young Vietnamese child in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2022.2127022

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