About the Authors
Kyungsuk Chang holds master’s degrees in TEFL and TEYL from the University
of East Anglia and York University, United Kingdom (UK), and a Ph.D. in English
Teacher Education from the University of Manchester, UK. Dr. Chang gained
English teaching and teacher training experience in a secondary school and
universities, and was a Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Curriculum
and Evaluation. Currently, she works at the Centre for Educational Research and
Innovation of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
as a consultant to the Globalisation and Linguistic Competencies project.
Her research interests are action research into the teaching of reading,
curriculum reform, school-focused teacher development, globalization and
English in Korea, and language policy evaluation. Her publications include
Bringing Information and Reflection Together: A Distance Mentoring and Teacher
Development Experience in South Korea (book chapter co-authored by S. Rixon,
2014, Palgrave Macmillan), and The Politics of Comparison: The Global and
the Local in English Language Teaching and Teacher Education (book chapter
co-authored with D. Hayes, 2013, Routledge).
Edmond Hau-Fai Law is a Professor in the Curriculum and Instruction
Department of the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has been a visiting
scholar and adjunct professor at the universities of Tokyo Gagukei, Kansai and
Tsukuba in Japan, at East China Normal and Shenzhen in China, and at Twente
in the Netherlands. Professor Law specializes in curriculum and leadership
studies, language in education and activity theory. Recent publications
include: Schools as Curriculum Agencies (co-edited with N. Nieveen, 2010,
Sense Publishers) and Curriculum Innovations in Changing Societies: Chinese
Perspectives from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China (co-edited with C. Li,
2013, Sense Publishers). He has also co-authored several journal papers and
book chapters, including Managing school based curriculum innovations: A
Hong Kong case study (The Curriculum Journal, 2010), Exploring the role of
leadership in facilitating teacher learning in Hong Kong (School Leadership
and Management, 2011), In search of a diverse curriculum: toward the
making of Postmodern Hong Kong in the 21st century (in W. Pinar [ed.], 2014,
International Handbook of Curriculum Research, Routledge) and Influence of
leadership styles on teacher communication networks: a Hong Kong case
study (International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2014).