Jack Tsao

Jack
Tsao

Educator & Researcher

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Research

My research focuses on Education Futures— how youth develop skills, competencies, and orientations for the future — and the changing higher educational and pre-tertiary educational contexts within which this happens. I am also interested in aborting the prevailing sense of inevitability towards reimagining alternative futures that are more inclusive, equitable and just.

I explore topics around:

  • Transdisciplinary education
  • International and comparative education
  • Sociology of education
  • Curricular and pedagogical innovations (experiential learning, community-based learning).
  • Digital technologies in education, especially artificial intelligence
 

I enjoy thinking with the empirical and the theoretical – through philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and art, humanities, and cultural studies.

Here are my ResearchGate and Google Scholar profiles listing my scholarly works.

Please reach out if you want to collaborate on any projects aligned with these research areas.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Tsao, J. (2025) Trajectories of AI policy in higher education: Interpretations, discourses, and enactments of students and teachers. Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence 8 (2025), Article 100496 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2025.100496
Tsao, J., Heinrichs, D.H., Camit, M. (2025) Artificial intelligence and epistemic interoperability: Towards a sympoeitic approach. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education  https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2579702
Tsao, J., Liang, C., Nogues, C., Wong, S.M. (2025) Perceptions and integration of generative artificial intelligence in creative practices and industries: A scoping review and conceptual model. AI and Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02667-2
Hameed, S.A., Li, Y.C., Tsao, J. (2025) Navigating the neoliberal tensions during the Covid-19 pandemic: International Baccalaureate practices within Singapore, Hong Kong & Taiwan. The Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00884-8
Heinrichs, D.H., Camit, M., Tsao, J. (2025) Response-able, collaborative adaptations of multilingual health messaging: A case study from Australia and Hong Kong. Critical Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2025.2555211
Law, N., Wang, N., Ma, M., Liu, Z., Lei, C.U., Feng, S. Hu, X., Tsao, J. (2025) The role of generative artificial intelligence in collaborative problem solving of authentic challenges. The British Journal of Educational Technology. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.70010
Tsao, J., Alhadad, S., Heinrichs, D.H., Hameed, S.A., McLay, K. (2025) The digital-intercultural-transdisciplinary nexus: Online international exchanges for transdisciplinary education. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.14742/ajet.962
Tsao, J., Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Lam, A.M.H. (2025) Institutionalising a transdisciplinary curriculum: assemblages, territories, and refrains. Higher Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01250-w
Li, Y.C., Tsao, J., Hameed, S.A. (2024) 學校內的教育全球化：國際文憑學校的觀Educational globalisation in schools: Perspectives from IB schools. 當代教育研究季刊 Contemporary Educational Research Quarterly 32:3, 101 – 133 http://doi.org/10.6151/CERQ.202409_32(3).0004
Tsao, J., Nogues, C. (2024) Beyond the author: Artificial intelligence, creative writing, and intellectual emancipation. Poetics. 102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2024.101865
Tsao J, Li Y.C., Hameed, S.A. (2023) The impacts of International Baccalaureate expansion on professional cultures and assessments 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. (2023) 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

 

Edited Book

Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Sims-Schouten, W., Tsao, J. (Forthcoming, 2026) Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation, UCL Press, London.

Book Chapters

 

Li, Y.C., Tsao, J., Hameed, S.A. (Forthcoming, 2026) Creating Institutional Legitimacy of Internationality: International Baccalaureate Schools in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. In J.C.K. Lee, M. Lee & E.Wright (Eds.) Handbook of Asian Educational Innovation towards the Futures of Education. Springer Nature, Singapore.
Kochhar-Lindgren, G.M., Sims-Schouten W., Tsao, J. (Approved, 2026) Coda: transdisciplinary experiments in motion. In G.M. Kochhar-Lindgren, W. Sims-Schouten & J. Tsao (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation. UCL Press, London.
Tsao, J. (Forthcoming, 2026) Artificial Intelligence and Transdisciplinary Playgrounds. In G.M. Kochhar-Lindgren, W. Sims-Schouten & J. Tsao (Eds.), Transdisciplinary Experiments: Research, Teaching, & Institutionalisation. UCL Press, London.