Dr TSAO, Jack
Research Expertise
- Sociology of Education
- International and Comparative Education
- Transdisciplinary Studies
- Youth Culture and Aspirations
- Future Readiness Education
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Dr Jack Tsao
Associate Director and Senior Lecturer
Common Core Office
Senior Fellow, Higher Education Advance (UK)
PhD, Sociology of Education, The University of Queensland
MComm, Applied Finance, The University of Queensland
BSc and BEcon, The University of Queensland
jtsao@hku.hk
(852) 2219 4839
Room 139, Common Cor Office, Main Building
Projects
Publications
Awards
Professional Community Services
Projects
- University Grants Committee Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE). Generative AI Hackathon for Social Good.
- HKU Teaching Development Grant. Exploring Applications of Artificial Intelligence Writing and Image Generative Technology in Higher Education Teaching and Learning.
- University Grants Committee Teaching Development and Language Enhancement Grant. Future Readiness: Leadership, Work, & Global Citizenship.
- HKU Teaching Development Grant. Gamification and Storytelling: Designing interdisciplinary teaching and learning experiences with students-as-partners.
- HKU Teaching Development Grant. Improvisation through the lens of Design Thinking to enhance the teaching capacities of tutors across the Common Core.
- HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund. Digital Voices of Myanmar and Hong Kong Students.
- HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund. Undergraduate interdisciplinary research and impact of peace and conflict through Rotary Peace Fellow Social Change Initiatives.
- HKU Gallant Ho Experiential Learning Fund. Cross-cultural well-being: Student experience through story, art, and film, a virtual exchange between HKU and the University of Queensland (UQ).
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Tsao, J., Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Lam, A.M.H (2024) Institutionalising a transdisciplinary curriculum: assemblages, territories, and refrains. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01250-w
- Tsao, J., Nogues, C. (2024) Beyond the Author: GenAI, Creative Writing, and Intellectual Emancipation. Poetics. 102. http://10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101865
- Li, Y.C., Tsao, J., Hameed, S.A. (2023) 學校內的教育全球化：國際文憑學校的觀Educational globalization in schools: Perspectives from IB schools. 當代教育研究季刊 Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly
- Tsao J, Li YC & Hameed, SA. (2022) Negotiating the Rapid Adoption of the International Baccalaureate programme by Teachers in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, Cambridge Journal of Education https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2246397
- Heinrichs, D.H, Hameed, S.A., Tsao, J., McLay, K., Huong, N., Alhadad, S. (2022) Mundane matters: Entangling moments of student well-being across cultures, time, space, and virtual world, Critical Studies in Education https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2023.2252469
- Tsao J., Hardy I. & Lingard B. (2021) Schooling in Hong Kong, youth aspirations, and the contesting of Chinese identity, British Journal of Sociology of Education https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1882836
- Tsao J., Hardy I. & Lingard B. (2018) Aspirational ambivalence of middle-class secondary students in Hong Kong, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 39:8, 1094-1110 https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2018.1456904
Awards
- 2023 Silver Winner of the QS Reimagine Education Awards for Developing Emerging Skills and Competencies – Transdisciplinarity for Future Readiness.
- 1st Runner Up Finalist of the 2023 University Grant Committee Teaching Award – Communication-Intensive Courses.
- Winner of the 2022 University of Hong Kong Outstanding Teaching Excellence Awards (Team) – Communication-Intensive Courses.
Professional Community Services
- Ambassador of the Hong Kong Teaching Excellence Alliance (HKTEA)
- Member of the HKU Techno-Entrepreneurship Core (TEC) Working Group
- External Examiner for the Core Curriculum at HKU School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPACE) Community College
- Committee of the Academic Board – Common Core Curriculum Committee, HKU
- Reviewer and Mentor for Advance Higher Education (HE) at HKU
- Chair and Committee for Communication-Intensive Courses (CiC), HKU