Rate My Professor Phoebe Zhen Tong

Phoebe Zhen Tong is a doctoral candidate at the University of Auckland in the Faculty of Arts and Education. Her doctoral research explores Chinese immigrants' perspectives of becoming and being a teacher educator. She previously served as Postgraduate Program Leader at New Zealand Tertiary College, where she worked as a lecturer and teacher educator.

Tong's research interests include childhood studies, children's literature, and multicultural education. She co-authored the 2019 article "Children's literature in China: Revisiting ideologies of childhood and agency" with Marek Tesar, Andrew Gibbons, Sonja Arndt, and Adrienne Sansom. In 2026, she co-authored "Respect through different lenses: a cross-cultural curriculum study of China and Aotearoa New Zealand" with Jiangnan Wang, comparing how respect is embedded in early learning guidelines in China and New Zealand.