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Acting Head
2948 8458
chimingl@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Hong Kong
BEd University of Hong Kong
Teachers Certificate Sir Robert Black College of Education
Specialization and expertise
Lam Chi Ming is an Associate Professor and the Acting Head of the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is responsible for pioneering work on philosophy for children in Hong Kong and has presented his findings in invited lectures both at home and abroad.
Dr Lam publishes in the fields of the philosophy of Karl Popper, critical thinking, Confucianism, and philosophy for children. His books include Childhood, Philosophy and Open Society: Implications for Education in Confucian Heritage Cultures (Springer, 2013) and Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (co-edited with Jae Park, Springer, 2016). He serves on the Editorial Board of Educational Philosophy and Theory, for the annual special issue on Chinese Philosophy of Education.
Dr Lam was educated at the University of Hong Kong, where he obtained a First-Class Honours degree in Education and a PhD in philosophy of education. He worked as a secondary school teacher for two decades in Hong Kong, heading the Integrated Science Department and the Guidance and Counselling Team at the Hong Kong Chinese Women's Club College before taking up his current position at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Associate Head (Learning and Teaching)
2948 8840
fgao@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Hong Kong
MA (cum laude) Universiteit van Amsterdam
BA (Hons) Shenyang University
Specialization and expertise
Gao Fang is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. She completed her undergraduate studies and initial professional education at Shenyang University in China. She holds a Masters degree in Educational Sciences from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and completed her PhD in the sociology of education at the University of Hong Kong.
Dr Gao’s principal research interests are in minority education and higher education. She has published Becoming a Model Minority: Schooling Experiences of Ethnic Koreans in China (Lexington Books, 2010), and over 20 papers in international refereed journals such as Comparative Education, the British Journal of Sociology of Education, Educational Research, Educational Review, the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Current Issues in Language Planning, the Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Asian Ethnicity, and the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. She has also published over 10 refereed book chapters.
Her second monograph, Power, Identity and Second Language Learning: Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Second Language in China, will be published by Routledge. She is the editor of two forthcoming books, Education, Ethnicity and Inequality in Multilingual Asian Contexts; and Tertiary Education in Asia and Eurasia: Sustainable Policies, Practices and Developments, both to be published by Springer.
Associate Head (Research and Postgraduate Studies)
2948 8648
lizjackson@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MPhil University of Cambridge
BA Portland State University
Specialization and expertise
• Philosophy of education
• Multicultural and civic education
• Ethics and virtues in education
• Global Studies in education
Liz Jackson is Professor of the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. She works in the field of philosophy of education, focusing particularly on the diversity of human experience.
Liz has published more than 200 books, articles, book chapters, and special journal issues. Each of her first three single-authored books, Muslims and Islam In US Education: Reconsidering Multiculturalism, Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education, and Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions, have one multiple book awards, including the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia Book Award and the American Educational Studies Critics’ Choice Award.
Liz serves as an editor for the CERC Series in Comparative Studies in Education and New Directions in the Philosophy of Education. She is a Fellow and Past President of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia and a former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
Liz has experience working in the USA, England, Scotland, Mexico, Turkey, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, and Hong Kong. She grew up in Oregon, and did her MPhil at the University of Cambridge in ‘Politics, Democracy and Education’, and her PhD in philosophy of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Chair Professor of Educational Leadership
2948 8282
bmac@eduhk.hk
PhD Institute of Education, University of London
MA University of Kent
BA University of Essex
Specialization and expertise
Bruce Macfarlane is Chair Professor of Educational Leadership and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Human Development at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is a former Head of the School of Education at the University of Bristol, and a former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong. He has held visiting professorial positions in Australia, Japan, South Africa and Sweden.
Professor Macfarlane is a social philosopher of higher education who has developed conceptual frameworks for interpreting academic practice, ethics, and leadership. Applying a mix of empirical and philosophical enquiry, he has helped to define key concepts including academic integrity, academic citizenship, intellectual leadership, and student performativity.
His research focuses on the micro or individual level but is framed by the way academic identity is being re-shaped by the changing conditions affecting university life. His major works include Freedom to Learn (2016), Intellectual Leadership in Higher Education (2012), Researching with Integrity (2009), The Academic Citizen (2007) and Teaching with Integrity (2004).
Professor
2948 8780
mmason@eduhk.hk
EdD Teachers College, Columbia University
MEd Teachers College, Columbia University
MA Teachers College, Columbia University
HDE (P/G Sec) (cum laude) University of Cape Town
BA University of Cape Town
Specialization and expertise
Mark Mason is a Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, where he leads the MA in Global Studies in Education and the EdD in International and Comparative Education. He works in the field of comparative and international education and development from a disciplinary background in philosophy, social theory, complexity theory and education studies. His research has been recognized in Hong Kong by the award of a Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship.
He is a former Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development (Elsevier) and of the CERC Studies in Comparative Education Series (Springer), and is an Associate Editor of the Southern African Review of Education. He is a Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and a former Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong.
Professor Mason has worked for UNESCO’s International Bureau of Education in Geneva as a senior programme specialist in curriculum and learning development, for the University of Hong Kong, the University of Cape Town, and as a secondary teacher of Mathematics and English.
He has published more than 100 articles, chapters, books and journal special issues in these research areas, and his work has been translated and published in ten languages.
A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a doctorate from Columbia University in New York.
Professor
2948 7503
anatoly@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Toronto
MPA University of Liverpool
BEd Kyiv National Linguistic University
Specialization and expertise:
Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko is Professor of International Higher Education at the Faculty of Education and Human Development. Prof Oleksiyenko is a world-leading critic of post-Soviet academia and contributor to the re-conceptualisation of governance and leadership in transforming university systems. Currently, he leads a UGC/GRF-funded project Re-imagining Intellectual Leadership in Post-Soviet Higher Education, which spearheads a shift in the academic culture of post-totalitarian societies.
Prof. Oleksiyenko’s research paper On the Shoulders of Giants? Global Science, Resource Asymmetries, and Repositioning of Research Universities in China and Russia (Comparative Education Review) received CIES-HESIG’s Best Article Award in 2016, and his book Global Mobility and Higher Learning (Routledge) won the Best Book Award from CIES’ SIG International Students and Study Abroad in 2019. The following co-edited volumes and special issues - International Status Anxiety and Higher Education: The Soviet Legacy in China and Russia (CERC-Springer); Higher Education and Human Vulnerability: Global Failures of Corporate Design (Tertiary Education and Management); Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Teach, Freedom to Learn: The Crisis of Higher Education in the Post-Truth Era (Education Philosophy and Theory); and Academic Freedom in the Reimagined Post-Humboldtian Europe (Higher Education Quarterly) - had resonance in the field of comparative and international education.
Educated and raised in Ukraine, Prof. Oleksiyenko pursued his postgraduate degree studies in the UK and Canada. After obtaining a PhD from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, he explored disparate developmental contexts of global academia, including in China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine, among others. In Ukraine, he led major transformational projects of local universities and civil society while working for the national government and international donor organizations. Professor Oleksiyenko served on the management boards of Higher Education Special Interest Group - CIES (USA); the Council of International Higher Education (ASHE); and was Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. He also played a major role in developing communities of higher education research by designing and chairing webinars, and leading editorial teams in local and international journals (e.g., Cogent Education, Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, Academic Praxis, Universities and Intellectuals). His consultancy has been sought by major international agencies, including UNESCO, Times Higher Education, the Legatum Institute, and the Open Society Institute.
Adjunct Professor
2948 7203
msltam@eduhk.hk
EdD Durham University
MEd University of Hong Kong
Adv Dip Ed University of Hong Kong
Cert Ed University of Hong Kong
BA (Hons) University of Hong Kong
Specialization and expertise
Maureen Tam is a Professor in the field of elderly education in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, where she was also Deputy Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, and Head of the EdUHK Elder Academy. She has extensive experience in teaching, research and management in higher education institutions, both in Hong Kong and abroad. Before joining the university in 2009, she was the Dean of the Community College and Further Education, and from 1996 to 2007 the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre, at Lingnan University.
Prof Tam’s research interests include elderly education, lifelong learning, professional and vocational education, quality assurance, outcomes-based education, and teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. Most of her recent publications, built on success in winning competitive externally funded grants, are focused on ageing and lifelong learning for and by elders, and on policy and practice pertinent to the provision of education for older adults in Hong Kong and the world. Serving on the Boards of journals such as the International Journal of Lifelong Education, and Educational Gerontology, and frequently invited to present at leading conferences in the field, Prof Tam is recognized internationally as one of the leading scholars in the field of educational gerontology and lifelong learning.
Associate Professor
2948 8498
mpavlova@eduhk.hk
PhD La Trobe University
PhD Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR
MEd (Education Administration) University of Toledo
BEd (with Honours) Herzen State Pedagogical University
Specialization and expertise
Margarita Pavlova is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, where she is also Director of the UNESCO-UNEVOC Centre (Hong Kong). She has over twenty years of international experience in education across a variety of contexts, including Europe, Asia, the USA and Australia.
Dr Pavlova’s research is concerned with policy, planning and curriculum development in vocational education at both national and international levels. Her current projects are in education for sustainability, development and green skills. She works with agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, UNESCO and the European Training Foundation, where she has led a number of projects aimed at developing policies, approaches to and resources for vocational education, and related issues such as capacity building and poverty alleviation.
She has published widely in her field, including a sole-authored book, Technology and Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: Empowering Individuals for the Future (Springer, 2009). She serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Vocational Education and Training and on the Editorial Advisory Boards of two book series published by Springer.
Dr Pavlova completed her Masters degree on a Soros Foundation scholarship, her first PhD on a Ministry of Education of Russia scholarship, and her second on an Australian Postgraduate Award.
Assistant Professor
2948 8207
edauld@eduhk.hk
PhD UCL Institute of Education
MRes UCL Institute of Education
MA UCL Institute of Education
BA The University of Edinburgh
Specialisation and expertise:
- Comparative and international education
- Policy studies
- Philosophical anthropology
- Sociology
- Governance (history and theory)
Euan Auld is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He holds a doctorate in Comparative and International Education & Policy Studies from the UCL Institute of Education, London (UK). His doctoral thesis investigated the rise of international large-scale assessments in education, and their influence on education research and policymaking, utilising theories from sociology, political science, and philosophy.
Euan’s current work theorises and conceptualises the role of stories in research, policy and governance processes, and the continuing relevance of myths and their corresponding symbols in contemporary - modern - societies. His research interests lie primarily in the fields of sociology and philosophical anthropology, investigating interrelated systems of meaning-making across cultures both past and present, and exploring ways to (re)integrate these insights into comparative studies of education, and education policy and practice.
Euan is a Managing Editor for the journal European Education (Taylor & Francis), and is an active member of the following societies: Comparative Education Society of Europe (CESE), Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), and the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK). He is serving as Honorary Secretary of CESHK.
Assistant Professor
2948 6133
wwlsin@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Reading
MPhil University of Hong Kong
MA University of Sheffield
Specialization and expertise
William Sin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong, working in philosophy, with a focus on ethics.
His research interests include filial obligation, long-term caregiving and its moral implications, the problem of demandingness, Confucianism, Zen Buddhism, and the relation between ethics and ancient Chinese literature. He has published in journals that include the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Asian Philosophy, Philosophical Studies, and Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy.
Research Assistant Professor
2948 7025
hrboul@eduhk.hk
PhD Public University of Navarre
MA Ibn Tofail University
BA Ibn Tofail University
Specialization and expertise
Hamza R’boul is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. His works examine interculturality, power relations and the skewed geopolitics of knowledge as they shape education and society at large. They also address inequalities and discuss the demands for more epistemic justice in intercultural communication education and research, sociology of education, internationalization of higher education and English language teaching. He has published in e.g. Language and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Further and Higher Education, Journal of Multicultural Discourses and Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. His research interests include intercultural education, (higher) education in the Global South, decolonial endeavours in education, cultural politics of language teaching, and postcoloniality.
He published his first book ‘Through the Looking-glass of Interculturality: Autocritiques’ (Springer, 2022) which probes into the mainstream underpinnings of interculturality scholarships and constructs a profound analysis for epistemic plurality in intercultural education. His forthcoming books include Intercultural Communication Education and Research: Reenvisioning Fundamental Notions (Routledge, 2023), Postcolonial Challenges to Theory and Practice in ELT and TESOL: Geopolitics of Knowledge and Epistemologies of the South (Routledge, 2023) and Problematizing ELT in the Global South: Interculturality, Identity and Power Dynamics in Morocco (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Senior Lecturer I (Assistant Professor of Teaching)
2948 8292
jpark@eduhk.hk
EdD University of Hong Kong
MEd University of Hong Kong
Specialization and expertise
Jae Park is a Senior Lecturer I in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He holds a Doctor of Education from the University of Hong Kong, where he continues as a Research Associate and Lecturer. His research interests are in sociology and philosophy of education.
Dr Park’s work has been published in Educational Philosophy and Theory, International Studies in Sociology of Education, Comparative Education, and Ethics & Behavior. In the field of higher education his published book chapters include Internationalization of Chinese Higher Education in Latin American Campuses; Higher Education Knowledge Production in Postcolonial-Neoliberal Asia; Asian Education and Asia as Method; and a co-edited volume, Sociological and Philosophical Perspectives on Education in the Asia-Pacific Region (Springer, 2016).
He serves as the Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong and as the Head of the International Education Research Group in the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development in the Faculty of Education and Human Development. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, published by the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong.
Senior Lecturer I (Assistant Professor of Teaching)
2948 7801
swwu@eduhk.hk
PhD Beijing Normal University
MEd University of Hong Kong
BEd (Primary Education) Chinese University of Hong Kong
Teachers Certificate Sir Robert Black College of Education
Specialization and expertise
Wu Siu Wai is a Senior Lecturer I in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He began his career as a teacher educator at the Hong Kong Institute of Education in 1995. He has a long history of working for local committees and educational organizations, serving on the committees that produced the Code for the Education Profession of Hong Kong (1992), and the Guidelines on Civic Education in Schools (1996).
Dr Wu serves as the Vice-Chief Editor of the Hong Kong Teachers’ Centre Journal, the Vice-Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers, and the Secretary of the Hong Kong Primary Education Research Association. He is a member of the standing committee of The Hong Kong Council for Educational Administration. He has served as an Independent School Reviewer for the Quality Assurance Division of Hong Kong’s Education Bureau. In 1997, Dr Wu received a Certificate of Appreciation for The Pursuit of Quality Teaching in Higher Education from the Consortium for the Promotion of Teaching Skills and Technology. He has given keynote addresses and invited presentations to educational organizations in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Taipei, Macao, Hangzhou, Anhui, Fujian, Shenyang, Jilin, Heilongjiang and Hainan.
As a local researcher, he has published, mostly in Chinese, more than 100 articles, chapters, books and journal articles.
Lecturer I
2948 7962
chengtl@eduhk.hk
PhD Lancaster University
MEd The Hong Kong Institute of Education
BA The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
HD The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Specialisation and expertise
Cheng Tak-lai is a Lecturer I in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. He is responsible for the teaching subjects in life and values education, and in education studies (in the related discipline of philosophical and socio-cultural issues in education).
He received a MEd with concentration in life and spirituality education at Hong Kong Institute of Education, and holds a PhD in higher education from Lancaster University. Prior to joining the department, he had worked across different roles (dissertation supervisor, fieldwork supervisor, lecturer and project officer) for the pre- and in-service teacher training in univerisites and institutes over the past ten years.
Dr Cheng is a registered social worker (RSW) of Social Workers Registration Board. He was conferred Life Education Personal Excellence Award by China Soong Ching Ling Foundation (CSCLF) in 2016.
Lecturer II
2948 7024
MPhil University of Cambridge
MEd The University of Hong Kong
BEd&BSc The University of Hong Kong
Specialisation and expertise
Lam Tin Miu is a Lecturer II in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her teaching responsibilities include education in international and global contexts, life and value education, and educational leadership.
After graduating with a double degree in education and science from the University of Hong Kong, Giselle has taught Science subjects across varied contexts and settings including Primary and Secondary in Hong Kong, Thailand and Australia. She obtained her Master of Education at the University of Hong Kong through a study of developing classroom dialogue in teaching and learning of science. Moreover, she received the International Baccalaureate advanced certificate in teaching and learning research in 2020. Giselle furthered her studies with a Master of Philosophy degree in Psychology and Education from the University of Cambridge. Her study focused on cognitive psychology in STEM learning. Giselle is a Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society (GMBPsS). She is currently pursuing her Doctor of Philosophy in Education at the University of Hong Kong. Her research interests are teaching and learning in international contexts, curriculum studies, teacher professional development and psychology in education.
Lecturer I
2948 7963
ethibaud@eduhk.hk
PhD Lingnan University
MA University of Bordeaux
BA University of Bordeaux
Specialization and expertise
Ezechiel Thibaud is a Lecturer I in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong.
Trained as a philosopher as well as a language teacher, she has experience in teaching various disciplines (philosophy, French, literature, politics…) in various countries and institutions (universities, international schools).
Her international experience (having worked in the USA, China & Hong Kong, India, Burundi) gave her a deep insight into sociocultural issues in education, as well as into the various ways concepts such as the meaning of life, morality, or happiness are approached. She is particularly interested in making philosophical concepts accessible to large audiences, through the use of innovative pedagogical tools.
Her philosophical research focuses on moral and political philosophy, with an emphasis on the concepts of autonomy, modern conceptions of virtue, and the ethics of technology.
Honorary Professor
badamson@eduhk.hk
PhD University of Hong Kong
MPhil University of Wales at Aberystwyth
PGCE University of Wales at Aberystwyth
BA (Hons) University of Wales at Aberystwyth
Specialization and expertise
Bob Adamson is Chair Professor of Curriculum Reform and also a Former Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development in the Faculty of Education and Human Development. In December 2015 he was named UNESCO Chair in TVET and Lifelong Learning.
Professor Adamson has published more than 120 books and papers, including China’s English (2004); Curriculum, schooling and society in Hong Kong (with Paul Morris, 2010); Comparative education research: approaches and methods (co-edited with Mark Bray and Mark Mason, 2007; 2014)—a work translated into eight languages—and Trilingual education in China: models and challenges (co-edited with Anwei Feng).
He has written over fifty school textbooks and helped to write the Junior English for China and Senior English for China series, used by approximately 400 million students. He co-wrote A Course in English Language Teaching, which won First Prize in the Outstanding National Higher Education Textbook category from the Chinese Government in 2001. He was awarded the “European Label for Innovative Initiatives in the Field of Language Learning” by the European Union in 2006.
Professor Adamson has been a consultant to the People's Education Press in the Ministry of Education, China, since 1989. In 2013 Qinghai Provincial Government named him "Kunlun Expert" (昆侖學者) for his 30 years’ work in Chinese education.
Honorary Professor
maclean@eduhk.hk
Rupert Maclean is a Former Director of the Centre for Lifelong Learning Research and Development, Chair Professor of International Education, and UNESCO Chair Professor in Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Lifelong Learning, at the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd). He was the foundation Director of UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Education in Bonn. His previous appointments include those of: Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris; Acting Director of the UNESCO Principal regional Office for Asia and the Pacific in Bangkok; Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID) at UNESCO Bangkok; and, UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor for the United Nations project to strengthen and upgrade teacher education throughout Myanmar. His scholarly work in education, and particularly in technical and vocational education and training, is well known from his numerous publications. He is recognized internationally as a leading change agent in education for social development. He has a thorough understanding of TVET in the Asia-Pacific region, contextualized by his broad grasp of educational issues, developments and scholarship world-wide. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for Australia ‘for distinguished service to technical and vocational education particularly through UNESCO’ in 2011.
Honorary Professor
frizvi@unimelb.edu.au
Professor Rizvi was appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Department of International Education in July 2021. He is Emeritus Professor of Global Studies in Education at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written extensively on issues of identity and culture in transnational contexts, globalization and education policy, international education, student global mobility, higher education and Australia-Asia relations. His book, Globalizing Education Policy (Routledge 2010) is a standard course text in universities around the world. A collection of his essays is published in Encountering Education in the Global: Selected Writings of Fazal Rizvi (Routledge 2014). His most recent books are Class Choreographies: Elite Schools and Globalization (Palgrave 2017) and Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights and Peace Education (Bloomsbury 2019).
Honorary assistant professor
emiliaszekely@gmail.com
Emilia Szekely is a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She completed her PhD in Educational Development at the Education University of Hong Kong, and her Masters in International Development at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her areas of research, consultancy and project management include sinology, China-Mexico relations, interculturality, education policy, development and sustainability.
Guest lecturer
yimcs@eduhk.hk
Senior Research Assistant
fyan@eduhk.hk
Senior Research Assistant
jying@eduhk.hk
Executive officer II
2948 8761
hcso@eduhk.hk
Project officer
2948 6142
ewlmang@eduhk.hk
Executive assistant
2948 7783
yipcl@eduhk.hk
Project assistant
2948 8534
cwinghang@eduhk.hk
Project assistant
2948 8836
vtywan@eduhk.hk