Her research interests include science inquiry, dialogical argumentation, and children’s collective reasoning and problem solving in science classrooms. Her current publications include journal articles on children’s reasoning, argumentation as social action, and problem solving on socioscientific and environmental issues and book editions, Biology Education for Social and Sustainable Development (M. Kim & H.C. Diong, 2012, Sense Publisher) and Issues and challenges in science education research: Moving forward (D. Tan & M. Kim, 2012, Springer).