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Dr Jan Gube
Dr Jan Gube’s specialism is in multicultural education. His research attends to the role of culture, ethnicity and race in schooling, curriculum and pedagogy. Dr Gube is particularly interested in how all of these coalesce in the shaping of teacher and learner identities. Specifically, he brings curious but at times tough questions to his research, such as “What is it like to learn Chinese History as a non-Chinese person?” and “Why do darker-skinned people tend to be associated with the label ‘ethnic minority’ more often in Hong Kong”?
As a former project leader of the Faculty’s Diversity through Understanding Equity in Teaching (DUET), Dr Gube brought together a variety of stakeholders such as schoolteachers, principals, and NGOs in a series of learning programmes and research seminars. The purpose of DUET is to raise undergraduate students’ multicultural awareness and caring attitudes. In partnership with WEDO Global, the DUET project launched the Globally Minded Teacher Learning Programme and the Globally Minded Community Learning Programme. These programmes included workshops at the University, experiential discovery tours and human library, sharing from experienced teachers working with ethnic minority students, and video-making, lesson plan and project design competitions for EdUHK and secondary school students.
Dr Gube has collaborated with Hong Kong-based scholars, school and non-governmental organisations to enhance teachers’ and tutors’ capacity in working with communities and students from diverse backgrounds. He acts as an advisory board member of a research project, Belonging Here and There: Translocal Belongings in India, the Philippines and Hong Kong, led by Prof James Simpson of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr Gube also delivered seminars and workshops to English Schools Foundation and CantoGather, further serving on the advisory board of the latter. Dr Gube is also a two-time invited panellist for Equal Opportunity Commission’s Diversity & Inclusion events, such as All Races as One and Uprooting Unconscious Bias.
Internationally, Dr Gube maintains an active network of scholars in his field. The collaboration within this network has been instrumental to the fruition of his co-edited books with Dr Tina Gao (IE) and Dr Miron Bhowmik (EPL), Education, Ethnicity and Equity in the Multilingual Asian Context and Identities, Practices and Education of Evolving Multicultural Families in Asia-Pacific, his speaking engagements at the Department of Educational Foundations and Development, Chiang Mai University, as well as invited symposia at the International Conference on the Dialogical Self. Dr Gube serves as Managing Editor of Intercultural Education and has recently joined as a board member of the International Association of Intercultural Education.
June 2024
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