Dr HUANG, Xianhan Yvonne    黃顯涵 博士
Associate Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Contact
ORCiD
0000-0002-6182-1211
Phone
(852) 2948 7909
Fax
(852) 2948 7563
Email
xhhuang@eduhk.hk
Address
10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong
Scopus ID
56427156400
SDGs
3 - Good Health and Well-Being
4 - Quality Education
Research Interests
Teacher Agency in Learning (e.g., informal learning, personal growth initiatives)

Teacher Agency in Teaching (e.g., adaptive instruction, teaching for creativity)

Enhancement of Teachers’ AI Competency

Language Teaching and Learning

Personal Profile

Dr. Huang Xianhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Education University of Hong Kong. She earned her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has held academic positions at both CUHK and the University of Hong Kong, where she founded and coordinated the PGDE programme in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language.


Her research integrates cross-disciplinary theories to examine and strengthen teacher agency, with a current focus on developing innovative training programmes that equip teachers with essential AI competencies and foster creativity in language education.


Dr. Huang welcomes applications from PhD (Self-financed and Fellowship Scheme) and EdD students in both English and Chinese. She is especially interested in supervising projects on (1) teachers’ teaching and learning with AI, (2) teacher agency, and (3) fostering student creativity with AI in language education.


She also contributes to the academic community as an active reviewer for leading international journals, including Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Teacher Education, and Thinking Skills and Creativity.

Research Interests

Teacher Agency in Learning (e.g., informal learning, personal growth initiatives)

Teacher Agency in Teaching (e.g., adaptive instruction, teaching for creativity)

Enhancement of Teachers’ AI Competency

Language Teaching and Learning

Research Outputs

Scholarly Books, Monographs and Chapters
李子建 黃顯涵 (2015)。 語文教學設計的理論基礎及應用。中國教育科學分會教育學分會, 中國教育科學 (149-167)。人民教育出版社。
李子建 黃顯涵 (2015)。 課程變革的國際及兩岸三地形勢。林德成, 徐慧璇, 李子建, 陳健生, 黃顯涵, 張爽, 學校課程變革:智慧與挑戰 (2-17)。香港教育學院課程與教學學系。 https://educoll.lib.eduhk.hk/records/2UJKGr3dpublished version (EdUHK Users only), https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,991016521779703410&vid=EDUHKFind@EdUHK Library
Huang, X. and Lee, J.C.K. (2013). The washback effects of the national college entrance examination on the curriculum reform in mainland China. In Law, E.H.F. & Li, C. (Eds.), Curriculum innovations in changing societies: Chinese perspectives from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China (413-429). The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Journal Publications
Wang, C. Huang, X., Signe, S., & Xu, P. (2025). Unlocking the relationship between instructional leadership, psychological well-being, and teacher job crafting. International Journal of Education Management, 1, 1-18.
SDGs infomation: 4 - Quality Education
Wang, C. Huang, X. (2025). Beyond the call of duty: Effects of school learning culture, teacher self-efficacy, and informal learning on organizational citizenship behavior.. Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1, 8-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.stueduc.2025.101459
SDGs infomation: 4 - Quality Education
Wang, C. Huang, X., & Xu, P. (2025). From instructional leadership to instructional quality: The critical role of teacher academic optimism. Educational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2025.2455608
SDGs infomation: 4 - Quality Education
Huang, X. Lin, C.H., Sun, M. Y., (2025). Untangling the relationship between teacher self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and occupational commitment. Educational Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2025.2482636
SDGs infomation: 4 - Quality Education
Kouhsari Masoumeh, Huang Xianhan, Wang Chan, Lee Chi-kin John (2024). The association between school climate, teacher emotions, and adaptive instruction. Frontiers in Education, 9, Article 1447440. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1447440
SDGs infomation: 4 - Quality Education
Huang X., Wang, C. (2024). Pre-service teachers’ professional identity transformation: a positioning theory perspective. Professional Development in Education, 50(1), 174-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2021.1942143
Huang, X.*, Lai, C., & Wang, C. (2023). The relationship between informal teacher learning and self-efficacy among public school teachers and private school teachers in China. Journal of Education for Teaching 49(4), 597-615.
Huang, X., Lam, S. M., Wang, C., & Xu, P. (2023). Striving for personal growth matters: The relationship between personal growth initiative, teacher engagement and instructional quality. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 93(3), 658-675.
Huang, X., Wang, C., Lam, S. M., & Xu, P. (2024). Teachers’ job crafting: The complicated relationship with teacher self-efficacy and teacher engagement.. Professional Development in Education, 1, 1-18.
Huang, X., Zhang, S., Sun, M., Kouhsari, M., Wang, D. (2024). Uncovering Relationships Between Formal and Informal Learning: Unveling the Mediating Role of BasicNeed Satisfaction and Challenge Seeking Behaviour. Journal of Workplace learning. Journal of workplace learning, 1, 1-16.
Qian, Q., Zheng, G., Huang, X., & Liao, X. (2024). Relationship between student-perceived reading strategy instruction and students’ reading comprehension: A serial multiple mediation model.. Reading & Writing Quarterly, 39(6), 582-597.
Wang, C., Huang, X., Lee, J.C.K., & Xu, P. (2024). Teachers’ Informal Workplace Learning Profiles: Outcomes and Antecedents. Teaching and Teacher Education, 137, Article 104407, Article 104407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104407
Wang, D., Huang, L., Huang, X., Deng, M., & Zhang, W. (2024). Enhancing inclusive teaching in China: Examining the effects of principal transformational leadership, teachers’ inclusive role identity, and efficacy. Behavioral Sciences, 14(3), Article 175. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14030175
Zhou, K., Jin, F., Li, W., Song, Z., Huang, X., & Lin, C. H. (2024). The design of technology-enhanced vocabulary learning: A systematic review. Education and Information Technologies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-12423-y
Kousari, M., Huang, X.*, & Wang, C. (2023). The impact of school climate on teacher enthusiasm: The mediating effect of collective efficacy and teacher self-efficacy. Cambridge Journal of Education, 54(2), 143-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2023.2255565
QIAN, Q., ZHENG, G., HUANG, X. & LIAO, X. (2023). Relationship between student-perceived reading strategy instruction and students’ reading comprehension: A serial multiple mediation model. Reading and Writing Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10573569.2023.2165464
Huang, X. (2023). Constructing the associations between creative role identity, creative self-efficacy, and teaching for creativity for primary and secondary teachers. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000453
Huang, X. Lin, C.H., Sun, M. Y., Xu, P. (2023). Metacognitive skills and self-regulated learning and teaching among primary school teachers: The mediating effect of enthusiasm. Metacognition and Learning, 17, 897-919. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-022-09297-9
Huang, X., Sun, M., Wang, D. (2023). Work harder and smarter: The critical role of teachers’ job crafting in promoting teaching for creativity. Teaching and Teacher Education, 116, Article 103758. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103758
Lai, C., Wang, Q, Huang, X. (2023). The differential interplay of TPACK, teacher beliefs, school culture and professional development with the nature of in-service EFL teachers' technology adoption. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(5), 1389-1411. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.13200
Lai, C., Wang, Q, Huang, X. (2023). The evolution of the association between teacher technology integration and its influencing factors over time. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 55(4), 727-747. https://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2022.2030266
Wang, C., Huang, X. (2023). Mapping trajectories of teacher leadership development: A study of Chinese teachers. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 43(4), 1208-1223. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2021.1994919
Huang, X., Lai, C., Sun, M., & Sun, C. (2022). Associations of different types of informal teacher learning with teachers’ technology integration intention.. Computers & Education,, 190, 104604.
Huang, X. (2021). Striving for better teaching and student creativity development: Linking informal workplace learning and teaching for creativity. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 41, Article 100889. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2021.100889
Huang, X., Lin, C. H., & Lee, J. C. K. (2021). Moving beyond classroom teaching: a study of multidimensional teacher self-efficacy on job satisfaction and occupational commitment. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, n.a., 1-22.
Huang, X. Lin, C.H., Sun, M. Y., Xu, P. (2021). What drives teaching for creativity? Dynamic componential modelling of the school environment, teacher enthusiasm, and metacognition. Teaching and Teacher Education, 107, Article 103491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103491
Huang, X., Wang, C. (2021). Factors affecting teachers’ informal workplace learning: The effects of school climate and psychological capital. Teaching and Teacher Education, 103, Article 103363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2021.103363
Huang, X., Lai C. (2020). Connecting formal and informal workplace learning with teacher proactivity: A proactive motivation perspective. Journal of Workplace Learning, 32(6), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/JWL-01-2020-0005
Lai C., Huang, X., Lam, T.F. (2020). Teachers’ socio-spatial practice in innovative learning environments. Cambridge Journal of Education, 50(4), 521-538. https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2020.1736003
SHUM, S. K., Shi, D., Huang, X. H., Tai, C. P., & Yung, W. S (2019). Using the genre-based approach in teaching Chinese written composition to South Asian ethnic minority students in Hong Kong. Writing and Pedagogy, 11(2), 253-283. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85076346340&partnerID=8YFLogxK Scopus publicationLink to publication in Scopus, https://search-ebscohost-com.ezproxy.eduhk.hk/login.aspx?direct=true&db=esu&AN=140201427&site=ehost-live&scope=sitepublished version (EdUHK Users only)
Huang, X., Lee J.C.K., & Dong X. (2018). Mapping the factors influencing creative teaching in mainland China: An exploratory study. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 31, 79-90.
李子建 黃顯涵 (2017)。 語文教學模式發展芻議。 小學語文,2017(4),4-9。 http://ezproxy.eduhk.hk/login?url=https://tra.oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFD&filename=XXYU201704003&dbname=CJFDLASN2017published version (EdUHK Users only)
李子建 陶麗 黃顯涵 (2016)。 從教師改變水平看教師專業身份構成:基於職前與在職教師的比較研究。 教育發展研究,2016(18),66-71。 https://doi.org/10.14121/j.cnki.1008-3855.2016.18.013
黃顯涵 李子建 (2015)。 高風險考試影響下教師復雜的信念與行為:一項關於中國大陸高考的實證研究。 教育發展研究,2015(6),58-65。 https://doi.org/10.14121/j.cnki.1008-3855.2015.06.012
Huang, X.H. & Lee, J.C.K. (2015). Disclosing Hong Kong teacher beliefs regarding creative teaching: Five different perspectives. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 15, 37-47.
黃顯涵 李子建 (2013)。 西方評價理念的轉型之路:兼談對中國課程改革的啟示。 教育發展研究,2013(20),36-40。 https://doi.org/10.14121/j.cnki.1008-3855.2013.20.006
Huang, X.H. and Lee, J.C.K. 黃顯涵、李子建 (2012)。 Analysis of the senior secondary Chinese curriculum reform in Mainland China from multiple perspectives: Issues and challenges 對中國大陸高中語文課程革的多維審視:問題與挑戰。 Hong Kong Teachers' Centre Journal 《香港教師中心學報》,11,63-78。
Lee, J. C. K., Huang, X. H., & Zhong, B. L. (2012). Friend or Foe: The impact of Undergraduate Teaching Evaluation in China. Higher Education Review, 44(2), 5-25.
Huang, X. H., & Lee, J. C. K. 黃顯涵、李子建 (2011)。 Considering the key role of assessment in curriculum reform: A neglected issue 審視評價在課程改革中的關鍵角色:一個被忽視的問題。 Tsinghua Journal of Education 《清華大學教育研究》(CSSCI journal),32(5) 第32卷第5期,56-61。

Conference Papers
Shao W. Huang, X. (2024, August). How School Environment Influences Teachers′ Anxiety: the Mediating Role of Teacher Self-efficacy. European Conference on Educational Research (2024), Cyprus.
Shao, W., Huang, X. Zhang, S, &n Sun, M. (2024, April). How school environment influences teachers′ anxiety: The mediating role of teacher self-efficacy. Paper presentation]. 2024 Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association: "Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action", U.S.A..
黃顯涵 李子建 (2015,11). 中國大陸高中教師對高考影響所抱持的信念:一個錯綜複雜的圖景。論文發表於「第十七屆兩岸三地課程理論研討會:高中課程改革」,Hong Kong。

Projects

Conceptualizing, investigating, and cultivating teachers’ generative artificial intelligence competency
This project addresses a significant research gap in teachers’ use of GenAI, outlining a teachers’ GenAI competency framework and providing a solid theoretical foundation for future research. The developed instrument and the professional program can serve as benchmarks for similar initiatives globally.
Project Start Year: 2026, Principal Investigator(s): HUANG, Xianhan, Yvonne
SDGs Information: 4 - Quality Education
 
Enhancing Teacher Well-being: Addressing Global Challenges in Teacher Education Through Collaborative Research Between Hong Kong and Finland
The project aims to review teacher well-being in asian context and provide research insights.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): HUANG, Xianhan, Yvonne
SDGs Information: 4 - Quality Education
 
Teachers' Calling Matters: How Teachers Transform Calling into Instructional Quality

Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): HUANG, Xianhan, Yvonne

 
The development mechanism of student teachers’ cross-subject teaching competence in the new curriculum. National Educational Science Planning Project
The project attempts to develop teachers' cross-subject teaching competence in the context of a new curriculum.
Project Start Year: 2024, Principal Investigator(s): Zhang J. W. (HUANG, Xianhan, Yvonne as Co-Investigator)

 
Conceptualizing the effects of informal teacher learning on adaptive instruction
This project aims to conceptualise teachers' informal learning and investigate the antecedents of informal learning.
Project Start Year: 2019, Principal Investigator(s): HUANG, Xianhan, Yvonne
SDGs Information: 4 - Quality Education
 
Prizes and awards

Top 10% Teaching Award

Date of receipt: /5/2025, Conferred by: Faculty of Education and Human Development