Quest for World-Class Teacher Education?: A Multiperspectival Study on the Chinese Model of Policy Implementation (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 34)

Jun LI is Chairman of the Hong Kong Educational Research Association (HKERA), Past President of the Comparative Education Society of Hong Kong (CESHK), Deputy Director and Associate Professor of Education Policy Unit at the Faculty of Education of Hong Kong University. He is also a research fellow of the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) Hong Kong Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and of the Centre for Governance and Citizenship at the Education University of Hong Kong. He began his studies on education in 1982, and since then has accumulated wide international experiences in Africa, East and South-East Asia, and North America, in addition to Hong Kong and the greater China region. Currently he is leading two ear-marked research projects, i.e., “China-Africa University Partnerships in Education and Training: Students, Trainees, Teachers and Researchers” (The Research Grants Committee General Research Fund, Ref.: HKU 842912H) and “World-class Universities, Publication and Research Assessment: Rethinking the Mission of Higher Education in the Global Age” (The Research Development Fund of Worldwide Universities Networks, Ref.: 4930217). He has extensively published on teacher education policy, comparative and international higher education and development, citizenship education, and China’s studies in culture, philosophy and education. In addition to this authored book on teacher education policy in China, his new publications include “The Chinese University 3.0 in a Global Age: History, Modernity and Future” and “The Chinese Model of Teacher Education: The Humanist Way for Chinese Learners, Teachers and Schools”, both in Chinese Education Models in a Global Age by Springer in 2016.