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Professor John Lee Chi-Kin, President and Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, joined The Education University of Hong Kong (the then Hong Kong Institute of Education) in 2010. He was Vice President (Academic) from 2010 to 2019, and Vice President (Academic) and Provost from 2019 to 2023. Professor Lee was previously Dean of Education and a Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was also the Director of the Centre for University and School Partnership and served as a Fellow of United College and Morningside College at CUHK. Professor Lee was a recipient of The Vice-Chancellor’s Exemplary Teaching Award 1999 at CUHK. Before that, he worked as a secondary school teacher and as a Lecturer in the Sir Robert Black College of Education.
Professor Lee graduated from The University of Hong Kong and subsequently received an MSc degree from the University of Oxford, and an MA (Education), PhD and Diploma in Education (with distinctions) from CUHK. His research interests focus on curriculum and instruction, geographical and environmental education, life and values education, and teacher development and school improvement. He is active in leading education research and development projects and has a solid track record in securing external grants. Professor Lee was named among the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world in the field of education under the category of career-long impact, in an annual list released by Stanford University in 2022. He was a Fellow of the Hong Kong Primary Educational Research Association.
Professor Lee has served as Editor of the International Journal of Children's Spirituality, Regional Editor (Asia Pacific) of Educational Research and Evaluation, and Executive Editor of Teachers and Teaching and Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as an editorial board members or advisory editor of many local, regional and international journals. He is also a prolific writer, having edited and written more than 25 books, and published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is the leading co-editor of the Springer book series, Curriculum and School Development in Asia and Education for Sustainability, as well as The Routledge Series on Life and Values Education and The Routledge Series on Chinese Language Education.
Professor Lee has actively participated in education and social service in Hong Kong, Mainland China and overseas. He served as the Team Leader of World Bank Consultancy Team of the "Capacity Building for Lead Teacher Training Universities" project under the Enhancing Teacher Education Programme in Vietnam, UNESCO consultant of an environmental education project in China, an executive governing board member of International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement and a technology support committee member of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies, and has served as board members of Geography Teaching Research Association, China Educational Association and the Chinese Association of Higher Education. He has also held many visiting/guest/adjunct professorships at universities overseas and in Mainland China. He is the Changjiang Chair Professor conferred by the Ministry of Education, the People's Republic of China.
Research interests
· Curriculum and instruction
· Geographical and environmental education
· School improvement
· Teacher development
· Life and values education
External Appointments
Professor Lee has actively participated in education and social service in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. He has held many visiting, guest and adjunct professorships at universities overseas and in mainland China. He has served as Changjiang Chair Professor, conferred by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. He has served as Honorary Advisor (Education) of Sik Sik Yuen, the Hong Kong Kindergarten Association, and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers; as Advisor of the Character Education Foundation (CEF) and the Hong Kong Association of Deputy Principals; as Academic Advisor of the Association of Inspectors, Education Bureau (AIEDB), and so forth. He is also a Member of the Academic Committee of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Primary and Secondary Schools Principal Federation and Chairman of the Academic Committee of the Center for Hong Kong and Macao Research of South China Normal University. In addition, he was appointed by the Hong Kong SAR Government as a Justice of the Peace (JP).
Professor Lee is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, the UNESCO Chair in Regional Education Development and Lifelong Learning (2019-2023; 2023-2027), a Research Fellow of The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), and Director of the Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures, Academy for Educational Development and Innovation and Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education at EdUHK.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Centre for Chinese Classical Learning
LEE, C. K. J. (PI) & SI, C. M. (CoI)
01/07/21 → 30/06/26
Project: Research project
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Life Education for Chinese Culture and Virtues
LEE, C. K. J. (PI) & SI, C. M. (CoI)
01/07/21 → 30/06/26
Project: Research project
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"Dolphin Messenger": Ocean Literacy Programme for the Primary and Secondary Schools 海豚傳訊者:中小學海洋素養啟航計劃
LEE, C. K. J. (PI), TSANG, P. K. E. (CoPI) & CHEANG, C.-C. (CoPI)
01/07/21 → 31/12/22
Project: Research project
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Study on Small Class Teaching in Macau Infant and Primary Education (Phase Four)
LEE, C. K. J. (PI), TO-CHAN, S. P. T. (PI), HO, J. (CoI), CHAN, K. W. P. (CoI), LAI, K. C. (CoI), LAU, G. (CoI) & HUI, K. F. S. (CoI)
01/04/16 → 30/06/16
Project: Research project
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Vocational Education and Training for Youth Development
LEE, C. K. J. (PI), TANG, H. H. H. (CoI), MAN, Y. L. (CoI), MA,, K. (CoI), LEE, S.-Y. (PI) & LI, C. W. (CoI)
01/04/16 → 30/09/17
Project: Research project
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An account of environmental education in Hong Kong: The role of non-formal and informal education
CHEANG, C. C., LEE, C. K. J., YIP, S. K. E. & TSANG, P. K. E., 2024, The Routledge international handbook of life and values education in Asia. LEE, J.C.-K. & KENNEDY, K. J. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 489-498Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapters
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A pedagogical design for self-regulated learning in academic writing using text-based generative artificial intelligence tools: 6-P pedagogy of plan, prompt, preview, produce, peer-review, portfolio-tracking
KONG, S. C., LEE, C. K. J. & TSANG, O., Jan 2024, In: Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning. 19, 30.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus) -
A review of the development of language teaching and learning in Hong Kong in the past 50 years
SI, C. M., LEE, C. K. J. & LAM, S. M. S., 2024, Learning and teaching Chinese as a first language: International perspectives. LAM, S. M. S., LEE, J.C.-K. & SI, C. M. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 15-33Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapters
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) literacy: An argument for AI literacy in education
KONG, S. C., KORTE, S.-M., BURTON, S., KESKITALO, P., TURUNEN, T., SMITH, D., WANG, L., LEE, J. C. K. & BEATON, M. C., Mar 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Innovations in Education and Teaching International.Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Artificial intelligence education for young children: A case study of technology-enhanced embodied learning
YANG, W., HU, X., YETER, I. H., SU, J., YANG, Y. & LEE , C. K. J., 2024, In: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 40, 2, p. 465-477Research output: Contribution to journal › Articles › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Silver Medal of the Invention Geneva 2021
JIM, C. Y. (Recipient), LEE, C. K. J. (Recipient) & CHOW, S. Y. A. (Recipient), May 2021
Prize: Prizes / Awards