Biography
Jackson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Sciences from Portland State University in Oregon in 2003,a Master of Philosophy degree in Politics,Democracy,and Education from the University of Cambridge (Newnham College) in 2005,and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009. She was the first in her family to graduate from college. [5]
After completing her PhD,Jackson joined the United States Peace Corps as a volunteer from 2009 to 2011. During that time she worked in South Africa as an Education Policy Specialist focusing on educational capacity building based in rural areas of the North-West and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces. In 2011,she worked as Policy Coordinator for the Higher Colleges of Technology,United Arab Emirates,based in Abu Dhabi,overseeing higher educational policy across the 17-campus college system and leading the System Survey Review and Institutional Effectiveness committees. [5]
In 2012,she joined the University of Hong Kong as an assistant professor,and continued there as a tenured associate professor from 2017 to 2020. While at the University of Hong Kong,she served as the Deputy Director and the Director of the Master of Education Programme and was part of the University Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity,the Working Group on Equity and Inclusion on Campus and the Common Core Curriculum General Education Committee. In 2018 she was elected as the Director of the Comparative Education Research Centre,after serving as an elected member of the Management Committee from 2014 to 2018. [6]
In 2020,Jackson took up the post of Professor at the Education University of Hong Kong. While at the Education University of Hong Kong,she became the founding leader of the Virtues in Ethics East and West Platform,a Managing Committee Member of the Centre for Religious and Spirituality Education,and Co-Chair of the Women Researchers in Education Network. She became the Head of the Department of International Education and the leader of the university's Diversity,Equity and Social Inclusion Research Group in 2022. [7]
Since 2019,Jackson has been the Hong Kong Representative to the Executive Board of the Comparative Society of Asia;she has also been the elected Communications Director (from 2018 to 2020) and the elected Treasurer (from 2020-2022) of the Philosophical Studies in Education Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association. Jackson has also served as Deputy Editor for Educational Philosophy and Theory. [8]
Scholarly career
Jackson's first sole-authored book,Muslims and Islam in U.S. Education:Reconsidering Multiculturalism (2014),examined the ways Islam and Muslims are represented in U.S. school curricula,classroom teaching about religion,and public attitudes,situating these issues within the framework of multicultural education. The work argued for a reconsideration of multiculturalism as a concept in order to address the needs of minority group students in a democratic society. The book received the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia’s inaugural Book Award in 2015 [2] and the University of Hong Kong Research Output Prize for Education 2014–15. Reviews appeared in Religious Education,Educational Philosophy and Theory,Educational Theory,and the Journal of Philosophy of Education. [9]
Liz Jackson provides two invaluable services in this book. The first is to identify, and begin to correct, the distorted and incomplete ways in which Muslims are represented in American popular culture and in American school materials (textbooks, state standards, and curricula). Her account is richly informative and provides a framework for rereading those materials through a more critical lens. Second, she discusses the importance of these problems in the context of a wider understanding of multicultural education, and in this context her argument frames a broader set of questions about the purposes and methods of education in a democratic society. Her analysis is critical, challenging, but also constructive in providing a more productive way forward in dealing with Islam – as well as other "controversial" cultural subjects – in schools. [10]
Jackson’s second book, Questioning Allegiance: Resituating Civic Education (2019), addressed citizenship education from a global perspective. The study examined how civic education is shaped by ideas of the local, national, and global, and considered how allegiances are formed across these categories, including transnational and civilizational dimensions. The book received the American Educational Studies Association’s Critics’ Choice Award in 2020 and was the subject of a review symposium in Educational Philosophy and Theory. [11]
Her third book, Beyond Virtue: The Politics of Educating Emotions (2020), published by Cambridge University Press, analysed approaches to the education of emotions. It received the American Educational Studies Association Book Award in 2021 and was reviewed in journals including Educational Philosophy and Theory and the Journal of Moral Philosophy. [12] [13]
Her fourth book, Contesting Education and Identity in Hong Kong (2020), focused on youth civic engagement, identity, and protest in Hong Kong. The book has been described in reviews as addressing the intersections of politics, identity, and education in the city. [14]
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