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Educator & researcher of education, citizenship, and young people's mobility, and how these inform pedagogy | Human geographer | Lecturer, NUS College | Views are my own | linktr.ee/chengyien

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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Deeply humbling speaking to a room filled with experts in their fields spanning education, policy, & community leadership. Super honoured & thankful to be invited to contribute to this conference organised by UNESCO Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU). [4/4]
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Photovoice transforms abstract global ideals into tangible visual artefacts that invite reflection, dialogue, and action; it offers a clear mapping onto the cognitive, socio-emotional, and behavioural categories which global citizenship education and learning seeks to impact. [3/4]
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We learned the basic tenets of a photovoice, modelled through stages, and did an interactive where participants brought in original photos which represent global citizenship issues for discussion using the SHOW+ED framework. [2/4]
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How can photovoice method and pedagogy contribute to Global Citizenship Education? This was the question I explored with participants at the 11th International Conference on Global Citizenship Education (IConGCED), held at Seoul from 26 to 27 August 2026. [1/4]
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
my work on visual pedagogy in undergraduate experiential field course now has a home in latest issue of JGHE Volume 50 Issue 4. free eprints 👉🏽 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SVZMI...
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Undergraduate visual learning: how students navigate photography as a tool for overseas field-based learning
This article examines how undergraduate students negotiate the use of photography as a pedagogical tool during an overseas field-based learning course in the Mekong Delta. While existing scholarshi...
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Dialogues in Human Geography @dialogueshg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
New Online 1st Commentary “Elemental exposure: Ontolocational politics and the limits of negative ontology” by Elaine Stratford doi.org/10.1177/2043...
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What's your summer plan? I often get this question & my reply can't be more banal — I teach. And this teaching comes in the form of traveling, not for a week or 2 but a whole month. That's what the #GlobalExperience course at #NUSCollege is abt. Immersive, fun. Can be tiring but def rewarding.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Follow & check out our latest journey where I bring 23 students across Saigon, Can Tho, Dong Thap & Chau Doc. 🤗
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
GEx MD started testing how photovoice works in a field course in 2024. Each year we seek to further refine it. From a community library in Tra Vinh to border town Chau Doc & now Saigon. Excited to have an opportunity to bring it to RMIT Vietnam for GEx MD26, extending our impact beyond NUS College.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm presenting a work in progress paper on the (under theorised) role of recce in overseas field courses. 🎦 Video summary 👇🏽 📄 Actual poster & abstract in YT description box youtu.be/omUDcizV1T4?... #HERDSA26 #HERDSA #FieldBasedPedagogies #Recce
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Recce as Pedagogy HERDSA 2026
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
thanks for sharing @jgeoghe.bsky.social check out my summary of the article 👉🏽 bsky.app/profile/chen...
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
AI+Research Methods kickoff seminar by Bing Zhou now available in new YouTube channel! youtu.be/y9yWHzp6L4s?... Those who couldn't make it, no sweat! 🔥
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Lots on your plate, but still curious how we can integrate photography/visual method into field based learning pedagogy? 📸 I've got it covered - here's a video explainer and an infographic to help 🤩 if you're into #visualpedagogies , visual methods, #FieldBasedLearning, love to hear from u!
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The IGU/UGI's Steering Committee of the Commission on Research Methods is please to invite you to the first in a series of webinars on AI+ Research Methods in Geography. 2 more weeks to register! Prof Bing Zhou from University of Tennessee takes the lead, presenting 👇🏽
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Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
📕 NOW AVAILABLE: Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education Edited by: Ravinder K. Sidhu, Cheng Y.and @johannawaters.bsky.social Read a sample chapter: lnkd.in/eEa62hNz More information or purchase here: lnkd.in/ejk5xrZZ #sociology #education #globalsociology
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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Recently published #book by TASA member Ravinder K. Sidhu et al. Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education
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Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education
‘This encyclopedic volume reimagines the sociology of education through connected sociologies and a methodologically denationalized approach. By addressing myriad issues—from mobility and borders to decolonization and race—and advocating for decolonial, relational, and inclusive pedagogies, it fosters global solidarity and challenges inequalities for a more just, interconnected future.’ – Riyad A. Shahjahan, Michigan State University, USA
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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Professors Peter Kraftl and @profslh.bsky.social have co-edited the new Handbook on Geographies of Education (with Yi’En Cheng and Silvie R. Kučerová) @elgarpublishing.bsky.social "This first of its kind volume is at once field-defining and boundary-pushing." www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...
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Handbook on Geographies of Education
‘Education happens in spaces and places, and across scales. This Handbook on Geographies of Education offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which policy, practice, and experience not ...
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IGU/UGI Research Methods in Geography @igumethodsgeog.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This paper is informed by the global experience course GEx Mekong Delta (2024 and 2025) that I teach at #NUSCollege #GExMekongDelta #GeographyEducation #VisualMethods #HigherEd #FieldBaseLearning #Photography #VisualPedagogies
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
3. Photography serves as a meta-pedagogical tool that fosters critical reflexivity, enabling students to engage in comparative thinking between "home" and "host" contexts while understanding that research competence is built through iterative practice.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
2. Photography acts as an enabler of affective-cognitive transformation, shifting student focus from technical image extraction to cultivating genuine human connections and challenging their own cultural assumptions.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Based on 81 reflection essays written by 27 students across 2 cohorts, I argue: 1. Photography functions as a negotiated relational practice where students learn to navigate complex ethical boundaries and balance the impulse to document with a deep respect for their subjects.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This paper discusses how photography serves as a powerful tool to scaffold field experiences into a recursive learning process, where ethical "messiness" and emotional responses arising from phototaking prompt critical reflections on positionality and privilege.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Got locked out of my social for a couple months. Back here to spread word about this new piece of research published in #JGHE 🌟🌟🌟 We know much about potential of visual methods & field based learning. But how do we transform these into pedagogy? Free E-Prints 👉🏽 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SVZMI...
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Undergraduate visual learning: how students navigate photography as a tool for overseas field-based learning
This article examines how undergraduate students negotiate the use of photography as a pedagogical tool during an overseas field-based learning course in the Mekong Delta. While existing scholarshi...
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
After few rounds of discussion, brainstorming & testing, they pivoted & found an alternative way to execute their concept. The result: a site specific restaging of the community library space + storytelling of children's conflicted encounters with education in rural Vietnam. 👏🏽
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Super proud of this team who pushed through till the very end & delivered on their Creative Practice, marking the culmination of their 2- year impact experience project.🎉 Just a few days ago bad news came abt damaged materials while being shipped, huge setback on their plan.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Yet, for these pathways to impact & change to be realised, there must be some stable conditions to allow for & to facilitate that process. So, I say to my students, it's more important to focus on how to stabilise critical conditions for change to happen! #theoryofchange
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Students often focus only on problem framing and solutioning, but give little attention to the process of getting from 1 pt to the other. Designing solutions becomes simply an exercise in identifying feasible pathways to effect change.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
My whiteboard writing is as messy as it gets. But that's nth compared to the messiness of designing & implementing impact projects that simultaneously serve student learning goals & community needs.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Our SI on 🧳Migration infrastructures & (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures & repairs 🔨 is officially Vol 9 Issue 4 of Applied Mobilities. 💡 Articles all qn the durability/stability of migration infrastructures & focus on moments of breakdown/transformation. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rapm20/9...
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Applied Mobilities
Migration infrastructures and (Im)mobile lives: interruptions, failures, and repairs. Volume 9, Issue 4 of Applied Mobilities
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Free eprints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SAIFV...
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The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia
Published in Asian Population Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
3️⃣ The unique drivers behind varying patterns of student mobility to different Southeast Asian destinations, including economic initiatives, geopolitical dynamics, cultural affinities, and institutional collaborations.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
2️⃣ The heightening educational credentialism in China serves as a significant driver of Chinese student mobilities to Southeast Asia, reflecting the increasing interconnectedness of the regional education market.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We underline 3 key themes: 1️⃣ The emergence of SEA as an international node in the diversifying pathways of Chinese student mobilities is far from being a homogenous space; it instead replicates the hierarchical nature seen current state of international education.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Inside, we consider the internationalisation dynamics in both China & Southeast Asia, & note the diversifying pathways reflecting not only HE's strategic adjustment in response to both domestic pressures & global opportunities, but also broader shift in educational & aspirations in Asian youth.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The introduction to our special section on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 ‘𝗕𝗲𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗼𝗮𝗱’ 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 is now online! 🔆 Read on to find out more, and access free eprints! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The internationalisation of education and ‘Belt and Road’ student mobilities in Southeast Asia
Published in Asian Population Studies (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do you research topics at the nexus of education, mobility & migration, and has something important to say about 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿? 🌈 ✨ Zachary Howlett, Kris Lee Hyesoo & myself are organising workshop on 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 at NUS Asia Research Institute, 24-25 April 2025. Check our CfP 👉🏼
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Even as we briefly shared our interview stories at the dinner table, we're beginning to see the many faces of these extended lives of international students beyond education.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
So interesting to see how international education intersects with marriage and family, and where pathways to social mobility crisscross each other in sometimes romantic and irrational but also strategic and instrumental ways.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
In this trip we managed to speak with female Vietnamese and Thai students who studied and eventually settled down in China in Nanning, as spouses and parents to children.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We not only did the fieldwork we set out to do, we also were treated extremely well as tourists and guests of Nanning! The hospitality was 👍🏽⭐.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A really fruitful trip to Nanning and Guangxi University — along with Sin Yee and Rin — to reunite with research collaborators, and where we get to meet a team of postgraduate students ever so eager to support all aspects of our trip.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This article is part of a special section carrying country reports that discuss BRI's impact on the internationalisation of education in SEA, all to be published in Asian Population Studies. Malaysia: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Singapore: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Post-2020 mainland Chinese student mobility to Malaysia: trends and drivers
This article outlines the post-2020 trend of substantial increase in applications and enrolments of mainland Chinese students to Malaysia and discusses its key drivers. It argues that this trend is...
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
2. We discover new university actors who're proactively building educational linkages in 'off the map' places, using border region to do the work of internationalisation, via quick-to-implement programmes. Such geography & institutional strategy look very different to global universities on the map.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Article's unique insights 1. Our case on Vietnamese language & cultural learning programmes & student mobilities push against BRI research's predominant focus on Chinese language, adding new layer of analysis on BRI's (multiple) language politics & diplomacy.
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chengyien @chengyien.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We observed that these developments are 1. driven largely by language and cultural learning, 2. geographically active in the south of China and north of Vietnam, and 3. sustained by universities' aspirations for internationalisation through quick-to-build regional collaboration.
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