This Handbook provides up-to-date and cutting-edge information and discussion on educational trends, topics and issues in Asia which reveal a diversified landscape of change and innovation, and offers a comprehensive overview of educational development from early childhood to primary and secondary schooling, to professional and vocational education, to higher education and elderly education. It covers a wide range of themes or topics, such as Artificial Intelligence in Education, Inclusive and Special Education, Shadow Education in Asian Education, Language Education, and Entrepreneurship Education. The changing and dynamic, as well as socio-cultural and educational contexts in Asian societies provide important lessons and insights for worldwide policy makers, researchers, and students.

Professor John Chi-Kin Lee, President and Chair Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, joined The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK, the then Hong Kong Institute of Education) in 2010. He was Vice President (Academic) from 2010 to 2019, and Vice President (Academic) and Provost from 2019 to 2023. Professor Lee was previously Dean of Education, and a Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He was also the Director of the Centre for University and School Partnership, and served as a Fellow of United College and Morningside College at CUHK. He had worked as a secondary school teacher and as a Lecturer in the Sir Robert Black College of Education.

Professor Lee graduated from The University of Hong Kong and received his Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford, and Master of Arts (Education) and PhD degrees as well as a Diploma in Education (with distinctions) from CUHK. His research interests focus on curriculum and instruction, geographical and environmental education, and school improvement. He is active in leading and securing education research and development projects, and has a solid track record in securing external grants. One of his projects (together with Professor Jim Chi-yung, Dr Alice Chow Sin-yin and the team), 'Tree Assessment for Life Education (TALE) Project', has won a Silver Medal in the first-ever virtual edition of The Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions held in March 2021, and won a Gold Medal and Special Award in the International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) in August 2021. He is the recipient of the President’s Award of Outstanding Performance in Knowledge Transfer (Team Award) in 2016/2017. He has served as the Editor of International Journal of Children's Spirituality (IJCS), Regional Editor (Asia Pacific) of Educational Research and Evaluation, and Executive Editor of Teachers andTeaching, as well as editorial board members or advisory editors of many local, regional and international journals. He is also a prolific writer who has edited and written more than 25 books, and published over 100 journal articles and book chapters.

Professor Lee has actively participated in education and social service in Hong Kong, mainland China and overseas. He served as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) consultant of an environmental education project in China, an executive governing board member of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, and a technology support committee member of International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies. He had led a team of colleagues, appointed by the World Bank, to serve as the Consultant for 'Enhancing Teacher Education Program' initiated by the Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training in 2017-2018. He has also held many visiting/guest/adjunct professorships at universities in mainland China and overseas. He has served as the Changjiang Chair Professor conferred by the Ministry of Education, the People's Republic of China.

Professor Lee is also the UNESCO Chair in Regional Education Development and Lifelong Learning, Research Fellow in The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO), and Director of the Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education at EdUHK.