Centenary Professor Moosung Lee

Moosung Lee holds one of the University of Canberra’s prestigious Centenary Professor appointments, ten of which have been made across the University’s five strategic areas of research. Having been appointed tenured full professor within 4 ½ years of completing his PhD, Moosung is by far the youngest Centenary Professor. He currently leads a research group focusing on Educational Leadership and Policy at the University. Prior to joining the University of Canberra, he held appointments as Associate Professor and founding Deputy Director of the Education Policy Unit at the University of Hong Kong.

His research areas are educational leadership & administration, social contexts of education, and lifelong education. He has published extensively in these areas (+90 papers). His scholarly productivity and quality output contribute to the research fields. This has been evidenced through a number of international scholarly communities’ recognition of his work; as examples, he received the Richard Wolf Memorial Award by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) in the Netherlands, and he was the first scholar in a non-U.S. university to receive the American Educational Research Association’s Emerging Scholar Award (Division A – Administration, Organization, and Leadership). Internally, he was chosen as a recipient for the University of Canberra Research Excellence Award in Social Sciences in 2018.

He has been a Fulbright Scholar, UNESCO Fellow, Korean Foundation Fellow, Asia Pacific Center for Leadership and Change Senior Research Fellow, Erasmus Mundus Visiting Scholar (at UCL & Aarhus University), YFL Outstanding Visiting Scholar (at Yonsei University), and Visiting Fellow (at Seoul National University Asia Center). His work has been funded by UNESCO, the European Commission, the Australian Research Council, the University Grants Council in Hong Kong, the Korea Foundation, the Academy of Korean Studies, American Educational Research Organization, Economic and Social Research Council (U.K.), National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services (U.K.), and the International Baccalaureate Organization.

He has served on the editorial board of a number of international journals. Also, he is Co-Editor of Multicultural Education Review and Senior Associate Editor of Journal of Educational Administration. Having gained extensive academic networks and experiences as a researcher and teacher in South Korea, Hong Kong, the U.K., and the U.S., he has opened a new chapter of his career in Australia since 2014.

Administration, Organization, & Leadership

• Comparative Educational Administration
• Elite Schooling & International Baccalaureate (IB) Schools
• Professional Learning Community

Social Contexts of Education

• Ethnic Minority Students
• Social Capital and Social Networks
• Multicultural Education

Lifelong Learning Policy

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

CO-INVESTIGATOR

*indicates student co-author

Selected Articles

1. Lee, M. & Louis, K.S. (forthcoming). Linking a strong school culture to sustainable school improvement. Teaching and Teacher Education.
2. Wright, E.* & Lee, M. (forthcoming). Re/producing the Global Middle Class: International Baccalaureate Alumni at “World-Class” Universities in Hong Kong. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
3. Lee, M., Kim, Y.*, & Madyun, N. (2018). Do relational and structural characteristics of negative school environments independently predict immigrant adolescents’ academic achievement? Social Psychology of Education, 21(3), 539-563.
4. Lee, M. (2018). What American urban secondary schools could be: An international perspective. Journal of Educational Administration, 56(5), 463-472.
5. Pak, S-Y. & Lee, M. (2018). ‘Hit the ground running’: Delineating the problems and potentials in state-led global citizenship education (GCE) through teacher practices in South Korea. British Journal of Educational Studies, 66(4), 515-535 [corresponding author].
6. Lee, M., Walker, A., & Bryant, D. (2018). What leadership practices are associated with International Baccalaureate (IB) student achievement? An exploratory study of IB schools in Southeast Asia. Peabody Journal of Education. 93(5).
7. Walker, A. & Lee, M. (2018). Weaving curriculum connections in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools. Peabody Journal of Education. 93(5) [corresponding author].
8. Lin, W., Lee, M., & Riordan, G. (2018). The role of teacher leadership in professional learning community (PLC) in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools: A social network approach. Peabody Journal of Education. 93(5) [corresponding author].
9. Lin, W. & Lee, M. (2018). Linking network learning capacity (NLC) to professional community and organizational learning. Journal of Educational Administration, 56(6), 620-642
10. Lee, M., Lam, B., & Madyun. N. (2017). Effects of different-race exposure in school and neighborhood on reading achievement of Hmong students in the U.S. Urban Education. 52(10), 1255-1283.
11. Lee, M., Lam, B., Ju. E. & Dean, J. E.* (2017). Part-time employment and problem behaviors: Evidence from adolescents in South Korea. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 27, 88-104.
12. Lee, M. (2017). Decoding the neoliberal subjectivity in self-helping adult learners. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 36(1&2), 145-163. [Reprinted in XXXX, Routledge].
13. Barnett, G., Lee, M., Jiang, K., & Park. H.W. (2016). The flow of international students from a macroperspective: A network analysis. Compare, 46(4), 533-559. [co-first author].
14. Ho, D. & Lee, M. (2016). Capacity building for school development: Current problems and future challenges. School Leadership and Management, 36(5), 493-507.
15. Louis, K.S. & Lee, M. (2016). Teachers’ capacity for organizational learning: The effects of school culture and context. School Effectiveness and School Improvement. 27(4), 534-556.
16. Lee, M. (2016). The changing nature of school principals’ work: Lessons and future directions for school leadership research. International Studies in Educational Administration, 44(3), 129-135.
17. Lee, M. & Kim, J.* (2016). The emerging landscape of school-based professional learning communities (PLCs) in South Korean schools. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 36(2), 266-284. [Reprinted in Global Perspectives on Developing Professional Learning Communities by Routledge, 2018]
18. Ho, D., Lee, M. & Teng, Y.* (2016). Exploring the relationship between school-Level teacher qualifications and teachers' perceptions of school-based professional learning community practices. Teaching and Teacher Education, 54, 32-43.
19. Yuen, C. & Lee, M. (2016). Mapping the life satisfaction of adolescents in Hong Kong secondary schools with high ethnic concentration. Youth and Society, 48(4), 539-556.
20. Wright, E.*, Lee, M., Tang, H., & Tsui, G. C. P.* (2016). Why offer the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme? A comparison between schools in Asia Pacific and other regions. Journal of Research in International Education, 15(1), 3-17. [corresponding author].
21. Lee, M. & Wright, E.* (2016). Moving from elite international schools to the world’s elite universities. International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 18(2),120-136.
22. Walker, A., Lee, M., & Bryant, D. (2016). Development and validation of the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile Questionnaire (IBLPQ). Educational Psychology.36(10), 1845-1867. [corresponding author].
23. Hallinger, P., Lee. M., & Ko, J. (2014). Exploring the impact of school principals on teacher professional learning communities in Hong Kong. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 13(3), 229-259.
24. Hallinger, P. & Lee. M. (2014). Mapping instructional leadership in Thailand: Has education reform impacted principal practice? Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership, 42(1), 6-29.
25. Walker, A., Lee, M., & Bryant, D. (2014). How much of a difference do principals make? An analysis of between-schools variation in academic achievement in Hong Kong public secondary schools. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 25(4), 602-628. [corresponding author].
26. Lee, M., Madyun, N., Lam, B., & Jumale, M.* (2014). School contexts and acting White. Schools: Studies in Education, 11(1), 122-155.
27. Wright, E.* & Lee, M. (2014). Elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme schools and inter-cultural understanding in China. British Journal of Educational Studies, 62(2), 149-168. [corresponding author].
28. Wright, E.*, & Lee, M. (2014). Developing skills for youth in the 21st century: The role of elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme schools in China. International Review of Education, 60(2), 199-216. [Reprinted in SAGE Library of Education Thought & Practice: International Education (Vol. 3). Bunnell, T., Hayden, M., & Thompson, J. (Eds.). U.K.: Sage.] [corresponding author].
29. Lee, M. (2014). Bringing the best of two worlds together for social capital research in education: Social network analysis and symbolic interactionism. Educational Researcher, 43(9), 454-464.
30. Walker, A., Bryant, D., & Lee, M. (2013). International patterns in principal preparation: Commonalities and variations in pre-service programmes. Educational Management, Administration, and Leadership, 41(4), 405-434.
31. Hallinger, P. & Lee, M. (2013). Exploring principal capacity to lead reform of teaching and learning quality in Thailand. International Journal of Educational Development, 33(4), 305–315.
32. Hallinger, P. & Lee, M. (2012). A global study of the practice and impact of distributed instructional leadership in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 11(4), 477-495.
33. Lee, M. & Hallinger, P. (2012). National contexts influencing principals’ time use and allocation: Economic development, societal culture, and educational system. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 23(4), 461-482.[Richard Wolf Memorial Award]
34. Lee, M., Hallinger, P., & Walker, A. (2012). A distributed perspective on instructional leadership in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools. Educational Administration Quarterly, 48, 664-698.
35. Lee, M., Hallinger, P., & Walker, A. (2012). Leadership challenges in international schools in the Asia Pacific region: Evidence from program implementation of the International Baccalaureate., International Journal of Leadership in Education 15(3), 289–310. [Reprinted in SAGE Library of Education Thought & Practice: International Education (Vol. 2).  Bunnell, T., Hayden, M., & Thompson, J. (Eds.). U.K.: Sage.]
36. Lee, M., Walker, A., & Chui, Y.L.* (2012). Contrasting effects of instructional leadership practices on student learning in a high accountability context. Journal of Educational Administration, 50(5), 586 – 611.
37. Lee, M., Louis, K.S., & Anderson, S. (2012). Local education authorities and student learning: The effects of policies and practices. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 23(2), 133-158.
38. Lee, M., & Park, H.W. (2012). Exploring the web visibility of world-class universities. Scientometrics, 90, 201–218.
39. Hallinger, P. & Lee, M. (2011). A decade of education reform in Thailand: Broken promise or impossible dream? Cambridge Journal of Education, 41(2), 139-158.
40. Lee, M. & Friedrich, T. (2011). Ideologies continuously reaffirmed, subtly accommodated, obviously missing, and fallaciously contested in UNESCO’s lifelong learning policy. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 30(2), 151-169. [Best Paper, AERA Leadership for Social Justice Special Interest Group & Best Graduate Student Paper Award, Adult Education Research Conference]
41. Lee, M. (2010). Researching social capital in education: Some conceptual considerations relating to the contribution of network analysis. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 31(6), 779-792.
42. Madyun, N. & Lee, M. (2010). The influence of female-headed households on Black achievement. Urban Education, 45(4), 424-447.
43. Lee. M. & Madyun. N. (2009). The impact of neighborhood disadvantage on the Black-White achievement gap. Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 14(2),148-169.
44. Lee, M., & Madyun, N (2008). School racial composition and academic achievement: The case of Hmong LEP students in the U.S. Educational Studies, 34(4), 319-331.
45. Madyun, N., & Lee, M. (2008). Community influences on EBD student achievement. Education and Urban Society, 40(3), 307-328.
46. Lee, M., & Madyun, N. (2008). Critical adult learning of Asian immigrant workers: A social network approach. Asia Pacific Education Review, 9(2). 113-126.
47. Lee, M., Thayer, T.*, & Madyun, N. (2008). The evolution of the European Union’s lifelong learning policies: An institutional learning perspective. Comparative Education, 44(4), 445-464.
48. Lee, M., & Friedrich, T.* (2007). The ‘smaller’ the school, the better?: The smaller learning communities program in U.S. high schools. Improving Schools, 10(3), 261-282.

    Edited Books

49. Cha, Y-K., Ham, S., & Lee, M. (2018). Routledge International Handbook of Multicultural Education Research in Asia Pacific. London, U.K.: Routledge.
50. Cha, Y-K., Gundara, J., Ham, S., & Lee, M. (2017). (Eds.). Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives: Policy and Institutionalization. Singapore: Springer

    Selected Chapters

51. Cha, Y-K., Ham, S., & Lee, M. (2018). Introduction: Multicultural education research in Asia Pacific. In Cha, Y., Ham, S., & Lee, M. Routledge International Handbook of Multicultural Education Research in Asia Pacific. (pp. 1-6). London, U.K. : Routledge.
52. Lee, M. & Kan, S.K.* (2018). Lifelong learning policy discourses of international organizations since 2000: A Kaleidoscope or merely fragments? In Holford, J., Javis, P., Milana, M., Waller, R., & Webb, S. (Eds.). Handbook of Adult and Lifelong Education and Learning. London, U.K.: Palgrave McMillan.
53. Cha, Y-K., Gundara, J., Ham, S., & Lee, M. (2017). Introduction. In Cha, Y., Gundara, J., Ham, S., & Lee, M. (Eds.) Multicultural Education in Glocal Perspectives: Policy and Institutionalization (pp. 1-10). Singapore: Springer.
54. Lee, M., Dean, J.,* & Kim, Y.* (2017). Academic achievement of Latino immigrant adolescents: The effects of negative school social relationships, school safety, and educational expectation. In Elmeksy, R., Yeakey, C.C., & Marcucci, O. (Eds.). The Power of Resistance: Culture, Ideology and Social Reproduction in Global Contexts, Advances in Education in Diverse Communities: Research, Policy and Praxis, Vol. 12, 269-292. U.K: Emerald.
55. Lee, M. & Kirby, M. (2016). The promises and perils of school leadership for accountability: Four lessons from China, Hong Kong and India. In Easley, J. & Tulowitzki, P. (Eds.) Educational Accountability International Perspectives on Challenges and Possibilities for School Leadership (pp. 129-141). London, U.K. : Routledge [Commentary chapter for the book].
56. Lee, M., Wright, E.*, & Walker, A. (2016). The emergence of elite International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme schools in China: A skyboxification perspective. In Koh, A. & Kenway, J. (Eds.). Elite Schools: Multiple Geographies of Privilege. (pp. 50-69). London, U.K. : Routledge.
57. Lee, M., Wright, E.*, Walker, A. & Leung, L.* (2015). Leading International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme schools in developing countries: A review of issues and challenges.  In G. Jean-Marie, S. Sider, & C. Desir (Eds.), Comparative International Perspectives on Education and Social Change in Developing Countries and Indigenous Peoples in Developed Countries (pp. 255-276). Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age. [Reprinted in the Monograph series of the Asia Pacific Centre of Leadership and Change, Hong Kong Institute of Education]
58. Lee, M. & Wright. E*. (2015). Elite schools in international education markets in Asia in a globalized era. In Hayden, M., Levy, J., & Thompson, J. (Eds.) Handbook of Research in International Education (pp. 583-597). London, UK : Sage.
59. Lee, M. (2014). The role of ethnicity, class and gender in social capital formation: A case study of supportive peer networks among Somali working-class immigrant adolescents. In S. A. Jackson. (Ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Race, Class and Gender (pp. 147-160). New York, NY : Routledge.
60. Lee, M. & Madyun, N. (2012). Deciphering Somali immigrant adolescents' navigation and interpretation of resources embedded in social relationships. In Z. Bekerman & T. Geisen (eds.) International Handbook of Migration, Minorities, and Education (pp. 659-676). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
61. Lee, M. & Friedrich, T. (2011). Citation network analysis of comparative education texts: A methodological consideration for micro social cartography. In J.C. Weidman & W. J. Jacob (eds.) Beyond the Comparative: Advancing Theory and Its Application to Practice (pp. 113-144). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense.
62. Lee, M. (2011). Sampling of social networks. In G.A. Barnett, & J. G. Golson (eds.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Networks (pp. 634-637). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
63. Lee, M. (2011). Ethics of social network analysis. In G.A. Barnett, & J. G. Golson (eds.) SAGE Encyclopedia of Social Networks (pp. 590-592). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
64. Lee, M. (2007). Where are global leaders educated? International Higher Education, 49, 6-7.

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