Dr. CHOI Tae Hee is Associate Professor at the Department of Policy and Leadership anda Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. She had also served asthe President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (2016-2018). She receivedher MA degree in Second Language Studies at University of Hawaii at Manoa, US, and her PhD inEducation from King’s College London, UK.

Her current research focuses on the process and impact of educational policies/reforms in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly concerning English language education/language-in-education and those responding to neoliberal trends. She is currently teaching on BEd, MA and MTeach programmes, and supervising EdD/PhD students. Prospective EdD/PhD students who share research interests are welcome to contact her. Her scholarship and expertise in the field is recognised through international awards (e.g., Young Scholar Best Paper Awards,The Asia Pacific Educational Research Association), advisory-seeking (e.g., Asia Productivity Organisation of The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; Cambridge University Press), and Visiting Scholarship (e.g., University of Queensland, Australia; Strathclyde University, Scotland).

Previously she was a Visiting Lecturer (2010 – 2013), and a Visiting Senior Lecturer (2019) at King’s College London, UK; was a teacher educator and policy advisor (2005-2009) and English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher (1995-2009)in South Korea. She published about thirty EFL learning and teaching resources with Korean and international publishers, in addition to academic publications.

• Policy process and Language

- Interrelationship between policy/reform processes and language

- English language education or language-in-education

- Policy design, implementation and impact

• Teacher development and change in a reform context

• Comparative Education

* You can download my publications for freeand get updates on my projects at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tae_Hee_Choi

I am currently teaching on BA/BEd, MA/MEd/MTeach, EdD/PhD degree programmes:

Modules I am currently teaching:

Teachers and Teaching in Context (BEd, co-course coordinator)

Teacher Leadership and School Improvement (MTeach, course coordinator)

Introduction to Research Methods (MEd)

Education Policy Studies: Approaches, analysis and implications (EdD, course coordinator)

Courses I have written or revised:

Courses developed:

BEd (Celebrating success and exploring issues of Hong Kong education: A comparative perspective)

MEd (Policy Planning and Change in Education)

EdD (Education Policy Studies: Approaches, analysis and implications)

A monthly research workshop for postgraduate students (MPhil/PhD/EdD) https://www.eduhk.hk/epl/en/research.php?s=rwr_meeting

Course revised:

BEd/Non-BEd (Teachers and Teaching in Context)

Mteach (Teacher Leadership and School Improvement)

Current doctoral students:

Principal Supervisor:

POUDEL Prem Prasad (PhD): Medium of Instruction Policy: Its Driving Factors and Associated Complexities in Multilingual Secondary School Contexts of Nepal

KIM Jessica (PhD): English kindergartens in South Korea: Practices and impact on children’s learning

Associate Supervisor:

BELOVA Xeniya (PhD): Multilingual Policies and Practices in Tertiary Education: A Case Study in Hong Kong

OANHThieuThiHoang(PhD):The Effect of Integrating Cross-Cultural Knowledge and English Skills into Tertiary Education on Enhancing Students’ Intercultural Communication Competence

HUM Chan (PhD): Multilevel Analysis of Human Resource Management and Performance of Public Universities: A Developing Country Study

LUK Ho Lun (EdD): The Motivation and Challenges of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) on Chinese Private Education: A Stakeholder Analytical Approach

Carman Ho (EdD): Developing people capital under the Free Quality Kindergarten Education Scheme: A study of job satisfaction amongst kindergarten teachers in Hong Kong

Previous doctoral students:

ZHENG Cun (EdD): English-medium Instruction Policy on Undergraduate Programs in a Chinese University: Teachers’ Perspective

KIGOZI Edward (PhD): Quality Assurance practices applied in Primary Teacher Training Colleges (PTTCs) in Uganda

Academic Services

Vice PresidentComparative Education Society of Hong Kong (2021-2023) http://ceshk.edu.hku.hk/about-us/

Executive Committee Ordinary Member British Association of Applied Linguistics https://www.baal.org.uk/committee/

Membership Secretary (2016-2018) British Association of Applied Linguistics, Language Policy SIG

The International Academic CommitteeThe Korean Educational Administration Society

ReviewerEuropean Educational Research Association,Network 23Policy Studies and Politics of Education (https://eera-ecer.de/networks/23-policy-studies-and-politics-of-education/convenors-and-reviewers/)

Visiting scholarship

The University of the Peloponnese, Greece April, 2020,Visiting Scholar[Postponed due to the pandemic]

King's College London, England July -August 2019,Visiting Senior Lecturer

University of Strathclyde, Scotland June 2019, Visiting Scholar

University of Queensland, Australia February 2019,Visiting Scholar

Editorship

Critical Studies in Education (Guest Editor)

International Journal of Comparative Education and Development (Associate Editor)

Editorial committee member

Educational Research Journal (Hong Kong Educational Research Association)

Pan-pacific Association of Applied Linguistics Journal

World Voices Nexus (World Council of Comparative Education Societies)

The Journal of Asia TEFL (Asia TEFL)

Beijing International Education Review

Harran Education Journal

The Educational Research for Tomorrow (Institute for Educational Research, Yonsei University)

Advisory Board

The Oxford/London Symposia

Korea English Language Testing Association

Reviewerfor international peer refereed journals, including:

-Journal of Education Policy, Taylor & Francis ISSN: 0268-0939;

-Language Policy, SpringerISSN: 1568-4555;

-Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, ISSN: 0159-6306

-Journal of Educational Administration,Emerald,ISSN: 0957-8234;

-System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, Elsevier ISSN: 0346-251X;

-The Journal of Asia TEFL,The Asian Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language, ISSN: 1738-3102;

- Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, ISSN: 1464-9373.

Other Services

Advisory

Asian Productivity Organisation (The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific) Educational policy processes and reforms

Cambridge University PressEnglish language teaching for South Korean learners

Hong Kong College of TechnologyEnglish & Korean Disciplines

University of Battambang (Cambodia)Research and Development CenterResearch Policy