Education

Publications  (*: corresponding author)

Zhuang, T. (2025). Emojis, Responses and Power: the Micropolitics of High-Power-Distance Academia in the Digital Era. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. (accepted and to be published).

Zhuang, T., & Lin, M. (2025). Early-career Academics’ Grappling with Multi-dimensional Duties in the One-dimensional Academic World: A Temporal Sociological Lens. Cambridge Journal of Education, 1-19. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., & Liu, B. (2025). To Sit the Exam or to Be Recommended: a Bourdieusian Perspective of Capital and Habitus Needed for Becoming a Postgraduate Student in Chinese Premier Universities. Higher Education Research & Development, 1-15. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., Oh, M., & Kimura, K. (2025). Modernizing Higher Education with Industrial Forces in Asia: A Comparative Study of Discourse of University-industry Collaboration in China, Japan and Singapore. Asia Pacific Education Review, 26(1), 195-210.  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., Cheung, A., Lau, W. F., & Su, Y. (2025). What Affects the Teaching Agency of University Instructors? A Social Realistic Perspective.  Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 45(2), 531-550.  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., Xu, X., & Lou, Y. (2025). Concepts and Pathways for Cultivating Future-oriented Outstanding Engineering Talent. Higher Engineering Education Research (高等工程教育研究), 03, 33-40. (in Chinese) [面向未来的卓越工程人才培养理念及路径——基于2021-2024年全球30份工程教育学会报告的分析] (CSSCI)

Shi, J., & Zhuang, T*. (2025). Competent fish in little ponds: Testing the relationship between academic achievement and social-emotional skills. International Journal of Educational Research, 130, 102540. (SSCI)

Ruan, Y., Liu, B., & Zhuang, T.* (2025). Policy Intents and the Enactment of Inclusion in Prestigious Schools in Urban China: Can Equity and Excellence Co-exist? International Journal of Inclusive Education, 29(8), 1292-1307.   (SSCI)

Zhou, Y., & Zhuang, T*. (2025). The Educational Implications of Wang Yangming’s Ecological View of ‘Benevolence as the Unity of Heaven and Earth’— Based upon ‘Inquiry on the Great Learning’. Journal of Educational Technology and Innovation, 7(3), 67-73.

Qiu, H., Yuan, J., & Zhuang, T*. (2025). Sustaining Decent Work for Sustainable Development Goals Through Higher Education: Employment Choices and Influencing Factors Among Master's Graduates in Education Science. Beijing International Review of Education, 7(3), 185-207.

Yang, Y., & Zhuang, T*. (2025). Mathematics Teachers’ Professional Growth and Student Performance: A Cross-Country Analysis Using PISA 2022 Data. Journal of Educational Technology and Innovation, 7(2), 53-66.

Zhuang, T.,  Zhou, H & Sun, Q. (2024). Ushering in Industrial Forces for Teaching-focused University-industry Collaboration in China: A Resource-dependence Perspective.  Studies in Higher Education, 49(12), 2357-2375. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T. & Shi, J*. (2024). Engagement, Determinants and Challenges: A Multinational Systematic Review of Education-focused University-industry Collaborations.  Educational Review, 76(5), 1363-1391.   (SSCI)

Zhuang, T.,  Tao, Z*. (2024). What Lessons Can University Education Learn from Outside the Ivory Tower: Insights from Engineering Alumni.  Teaching in Higher Education, 29(4), 970-986. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., & Xu, X. (2024). Is “Application” Everything about Studying for a University Degree? The Multiple Influences Shaping Undergraduates in Chinese Higher Education in Contemporary Times. Beijing International Review of Education, 6(3-4), 310-333.

Zhuang, T., & Sun, Q. (2024). Enterprises Participating in Teaching and Curriculum Reform of Higher Engineering Education: Paths and Chalenges. Higher Engineering Education Research (高等工程教育研究), 01, 92-98. (in Chinese) [企业参与高等工程教育教学与课程内容改革：路径与挑战] (CSSCI)

Liu, B., & Zhuang, T*. (2024). International Experiences and Local Construction of an Integrated Degree System for Vocational Education. Degree and Postgraduate Education(学位与研究生教育), 11, 77-84. (in Chinese) [职业教育学位体系的国际经验与本土构建] (CSSCI)

Zhuang, T & Liu, B. (2024). Promoting Context-based Teaching of Theoretical Knowledge: Paths for Enhancing Theory Teaching Quality from an International Perspective. Ｒenmin University of China Education Journal (中国人民大学教育学刊), 2, 59-67. (in Chinese) [情境性理论教学: 国际视野下高校理工科理论教学的质量提升路径] (CSSCI Expanded)

Zhou, Y., & Zhuang, T*. (2024). Ideal Personality of Confucian Thoughts and Its Contemporary Relevance for Education. Cultural Forum, 1(1), 2275-2275.

Qiu, H., Zhuang, T., & Shi, Y. (2024). Unravelling the components of Chinese college counsellors' mental models: A three‐step coding‐based content analysis. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 24(1), 352-362.

Zhuang, T., & Kong, X. (2023). Shaping Personal Worldviews when Neoliberalism Meets Confucianism and Patriotism: Insights from Chinese Postgraduate Students. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(4), 687-702. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T. (2023). Structure, Reflexivity and Their Interplay: Understanding University Faculty Members’ Implementation of Teaching Excellence.  British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(1), 78-96.   (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., & Jiang, X. (2023). Constructing Symbolic Capital to Coordinate Teaching-focused University-industry Collaborations: A Documentary, Videological and Empirical Analysis.  International Journal of Educational Research, 122, 102251. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., & Zhou, H. (2023). Developing a synergistic approach to engineering education: China’s national policies on university–industry educational collaboration. Asia Pacific Education Review, 24(1), 145-165. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T. & Hong, H.* (2023). Internationalization of University-Industry Collaborations: What Can We Learn from Singapore’s Institutes of Higher Learning? Zhejiang University Journal (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition)(浙江大学学报人文社科版), 53(9), 18-28.    [in Chinese](新一轮产业革命背景下新加坡高等教育产教融合的国际化) (CSSCI)

Kong, X., Yin, H., & Zhuang, T.* (2023). Understanding Levels of Professional Growth for Chinese Class Teachers in Schools: A Social Morphogenesis Approach.  Asia-pacific Education Researcher, 33(3), 509-518  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T. (2023). Scaling Greater Heights in Higher Education Through Boundary-Spanning-Based University-Industry Collaboration: the ‘Four New’ Project in China. Beijing International Review of Education, 5(4), 383-404.

Zhuang, T.,  Liu, B., & Hu, Y*. (2022). Legitimising Shared Governance in China’s Higher Education Sector through University Statutes.  European Journal of Education, 57(1), 33-48.  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T.,  Liu, B., & Ding, R. (2022). University Insiders’ Perceptions of Doctoral Education Development in Five East and Southeastern Asian Countries: An Institutional Logics Perspective.  European Journal of Education, 57(3), 469-483.  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T.,& Liu, B. (2022). Sustaining Higher Education Quality by Building an Educational Innovation Ecosystem in China—Policies, Implementations and Effects.  Sustainability, 14, 7568-7592.

Zhuang, T., & Huang, Y*. (2021). Characterizing University Faculty’s Perceptions of Scholarly Teaching in Engineering Education: A Social Realistic Perspective.  Higher Education Research and Development, 40(3), 646-660.  (SSCI)

Koh, A., & Zhuang, T*. (2021). “New Engineering Education” in China: A National Technological Imaginary of the Chinese Dream. Asia Pacific Education Review, 22(1), 31-40.   (SSCI)

Cheung, A. C., Xie, C., Zhuang, T., Neitzel, A. J., & Slavin, R. E. (2021). Success for all: A quantitative synthesis of US evaluations. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 14(1), 90-115. (SSCI)

Robert, S., Alan, C. C., & Zhuang, T. (2021). How Evidence-Based Reform Could Advance Education. ECNU Review of Education, 1-18.

Liu, B., & Zhuang, T*. (2021). Reforms of Teaching Patterns and Methods in US STEM Higher Education: Causes, Strategies, and Implications. Tsinghua Journal of Education(清华大学教育研究), 42(05), 30-39. (in Chinese) [美国高等STEM教育教学模式与方法改革：动因、策略、启示] (CSSCI)

Liu, B., & Zhuang, T*. (2021). The Worldwide Landscape of Corporate Universities: Education Ideas, Patterns, and Future Trends. Journal of National Academy of Education Administration (国家教育行政学院学报), 10, 51-60. (in Chinese) [产业大学的世界图景：理念基础、办学模式与未来走向] (CSSCI)

Zhuang, T., & Liu, B*. (2020). Power Landscapes within Chinese Universities: A Three-dimensional Discourse Analysis of University Statutes.  Cambridge Journal of Education, 50(5), 639-656.  (SSCI)

Zhuang, T., Cheung, A. C., & Tam, W. (2020). Modeling undergraduate STEM students’ satisfaction with their programs in China: an empirical study. Asia Pacific Education Review, 21(2), 211-225. (SSCI)

Zhuang, T & Yao, J. (2020). Factors Affecting Chinese Science and Engineering Major Undergraduates’ Satisfaction with Specialized Courses Teaching in the Context of ‘New Engineering Education’. Higher Education Management (高校教育管理), 14(4), 73-86. (in Chinese) [“新工科”背景下我国理工科本科生专业课教学满意度的影响因素研究] (CSSCI)

Zhuang, T., Cheung, A. C., Lau, W. W., & Tang, Y. (2019). Development and validation of an instrument to measure STEM undergraduate students’ comprehensive educational process. Frontiers of Education in China, 14(4), 575-611.

Zhuang, T., & Xu, X. (2018). ‘New engineering education’ in Chinese higher education: Prospects and challenges. Tuning Journal for Higher Education, 6(1), 69-109.

Zhuang, T. (2018). Evolution of China’s National Policies for Higher Vocational Education Since the New Millennium. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 1(1), 17-39.

Liu, B., & Zhuang, T*. (2012). The Master Plan for Higher Education in California at 50: A Review and Prospect. Comparative Education Review(比较教育研究), 2, 46-50. (in Chinese) [加州高等教育总体规划50年回顾与展望] (CSSCI)

Monographs

Zhuang, T. (2023). Engineering Teaching in China’s Higher Education: A Social Realistic Approach. London: Routledge.

Zhuang, T. (2023). Modernizing China’s Undergraduate Engineering Education through Systematic Reforms: Ideas, Practices and Impact. Singapore: Springer. 

Past Project Experiences

1. 2025. Main consultant for the cross-national project “University–industry integration policies and practices in China – potential applications in Hungary” funded by Wekerle International University (WIU) in cooperation with the Learning Institute of Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCCLI), Hungary.

2. 2023. Principal Investigator (PI) for the commissioned project “Research on Training at Undergraduate-level Vocational Colleges”.

3. 2022. Principal Investigator (PI) for the Project “Patterns for Teaching-focused University-industry Collaboration in Asian Countries” funded by Beijing Normal University.

4. 2021. Principal investigator (PI) of the Project “Factors Influencing Deep Engagement of Enterprises with Talent Cultivation in Universities of Applied Science” funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China.

5. 2021. Principal Investigator (PI) for the Project “Paths and System Optimization for University-industry Collaborative Education against the Backdrop of New Engineering Education, New Agricultural Education, New Medical Education and New Humanities Education” funded by Beijing Normal University.

6. 2017-2020. Participating in the Best Evidence in Brief Education Project by the Center for the University-school Partnership (CUSP) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, York University and Nanjing Normal University.

Academic Conference Presentations

2025.09   Bijeljina，Bosnia and Herzegovinia,

   Topic: Contextualizing and Visualizing Abstract Theoretic Knowledge for Situated Learning: Paths for Enhancing Science and Engineering Theory Teaching Quality

2024.04    American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA.

    Topic:  Grappling with multi-dimensional tasks in the one-dimensional academic world: a temporal sociological perspective

2023.12  Hong Kong Education Research Association-Asia Pacific Education Research Association (HKERA-APERA）Conference, Hong Kong.

Topic：Constructing symbolic capital to coordinate teaching-focused university-industry collaborative teaching: the Chinese experiences

2023.10  3^rd World Conference of Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education (WCAHSSE), Paris, France

Topic：Shaping personal worldviews when neoliberalism meets Confucianism and patriotism: insights from Chinese postgraduates

2021.12  Hong Kong Education Research Association-Asia Pacific Education Research Association (HKERA-APERA）Conference, Hong Kong (Online).

    Topic:  Chinese postgraduate students’ life outlooks:  the interplay of Confucianism, nationalism and neoliberalism.

2018.12  Australia Association of Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference, Sydney, Australia

Topic：An investigation of the teaching of STEM subjects to undergraduate students in Chinese universities: A cultural sociological perspective

2018.5  11^th Biennial Conference of Comparative Education Society of Asia, Siem Reap, Cambodia

Topic：Assessment Matters in Enhancing STEM-major Students’ Course Satisfaction at University: Case in China

2015.11 International Forum on the World Value of Chinese Culture, Beijing

    Topic:  An Understanding of Chinese Filial Piety (Family Reverence) from the Individual Dimension Based on Confucian Classics