Activities

ACCEPT year-end collaborative symposium

Date: 03/12/2025 On 3 December 2025, our end-of-year mini-symposium celebrated a productive and inspiring year for the ACCEPT team. Initiated and hosted by Dr Hongzhi Zhang at the Monash Club, the event opened with his overview of the team’s achievements. This was followed by Dr Grace Ji’s presentation of the initial success of the Economics…
Monash ACCEPT Team and Venerable Master Hongsi Visit Daylesford Dharma School to Explore Future Collaboration

Date: 10/10/2025 Editor: Yaqing Hou The Monash ACCEPT (Asian Cultural Community-Engaged Pedagogy for Teaching) team, including Dr. Hongzhi Zhang, Dr. Philip Chan, and Yaqing Hou, together with Venerable Master Hongsi (弘四法师) and interpreter Jennifer Shen, visited Daylesford Dharma School to learn about its distinctive educational philosophy and wellbeing-centered approach Hosted by Principal Andrea Furness, the…
Economics and Business education research achieved promising early outcomes

Date: 24/07/2025 Over six months of collaboration, our Monash ACCEPT project completed the data-collection phase of the Economics and Business education pilot study on 24 July 2025. In partnership with the Chinese Museum and Casey Grammar School, the project fostered Year 10 curriculum resources co-design through the three-way collaboration among university, community, and school. Focusing…
Initial visit to Scienceworks for the collaborative science education

Date: 17/06/2025 On 17 June 2025, the ACCEPT team made our first visit to Scienceworks, where we were warmly welcomed by the Museums Victoria staff. This initial meeting served as an important foundation for building partnership in science education and beyond. Together, we explored potential avenues for collaboration, particularly in co-designing science curriculum resources that…
Field Trip to Ararat and Ballarat

Date: 21/06/2023 Editor: Yaqing Hou Melbourne, Victoria – In a significant step towards enhancing educational practices on the engagement of Asia and Australia, Professor Zane Diamond, Dr. Shaoru Zeng, Yaqing Hou from the Faculty of Education at Monash University recently visited the Xin Jin Shan Chinese Library. This visit marked the beginning of a collaborative…
Trip to Xin Jin Shan Chinese Library at Ballarat

Date: 14/10/2022 Editor: Grace Ji It’s exciting to announce that we have officially launched a project titled Rural Education and Strategic Alliance – Developing community-engaged pedagogy to enhance the teaching practice of cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian Curriculum, led by Dr. Philip Chan and Dr. Hongzhi Zhang. On the 14th Oct Friday, after a long…