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Seung‐Hwan Ham

Hanyang University · Social Sciences

About the Lab

Professor Seung-Hwan Ham's research lab specializes in educational policy and equity, focusing on the impact of institutional environments—particularly anti-discrimination policies and multicultural education—on immigrant and minority students’ educational outcomes. The lab investigates how systemic factors such as principal leadership, school organizational culture, and national integration policies shape student belonging, academic engagement, and performance across diverse sociocultural contexts. Using large-scale international datasets like TALIS, PISA, TIMSS, and MIPEX, the lab conducts multilevel and cross-national comparative analyses to inform evidence-based educational reforms.

educational equityimmigrant integrationanti-discrimination policymulticultural educationschool leadership

Research Overview

Papers
124
Total Citations
662
Papers (5y)
35
Primary Field
Social Sciences

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
35total
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Citations per year (5y)
53total
20212022202320242025

Selected Papers

15
1
Article|57 citations·2014
Whose perception of principal instructional leadership? Principal-teacher perceptual (dis)agreement and its influence on teacher collaboration
Joo-Ho Park, Seung‐Hwan Ham
SJR Q1Asia Pacific Journal of Education

This study examines teacher collaboration across three Asia-Pacific countries (Australia, Malaysia, and South Korea), focusing on the possibility that principal-teacher perceptual disagreement regarding principal instructional leadership performance may impede progress toward a school organizational condition conducive to collaborative teacher interactions. Data for this study were taken from the OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey 2008. Overall, the results from a series of hierarch

EducationSocial Sciences
2
Article|49 citations·2017
Immigrant integration policy for future generations? A cross-national multilevel analysis of immigrant-background adolescents’ sense of belonging at school
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Kyung‐Eun Yang, Yun‐Kyung Cha
SJR Q1International Journal of Intercultural Relations
EducationSocial Sciences
3
Article|38 citations·2015
Agreement of self-other perceptions matters: Analyzing the effectiveness of principal leadership through multi-source assessment
Seung‐Hwan Ham, İbrahim Duyar, Sedat Gümüş
SJR Q1Australian Journal of Education

The purpose of this study was to examine the possible effects of the simultaneous inclusion of self and other ratings of principal instructional leadership on teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs. Special attention was given to the case where principal and teacher ratings were incongruent and exhibited a self-other rating disagreement regarding the principals’ effectiveness in instructional leadership. The data used in the analyses were taken from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Develo

EducationSocial Sciences
4
Article|34 citations·2009
Positioning Education in the Information Society: The Transnational Diffusion of the Information and Communication Technology Curriculum
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Yun‐Kyung Cha
SJR Q2Comparative Education Review
EducationSocial Sciences
5
Article|26 citations·2017
Truancy as systemic discrimination: Anti-discrimination legislation and its effect on school attendance among immigrant children
Kyung-Eun Yang, Seung‐Hwan Ham
SJR Q2The Social Science Journal

This comparative policy analysis demonstrates that patterns of truancy by immigrant status reflect the degree of systemic (anti-)discrimination institutionalized at the societal level. Based on extensive data from 205,512 children in 9,141 secondary schools across 29 OECD countries, a series of hierarchical generalized linear modeling analyses has been conducted. The results indicate that the extent to which a country has institutionalized anti-discrimination policies attenuates the association

EducationSocial Sciences
6
Article|24 citations·2013
The Influence of Principals’ Instructional Leadership on Teachers’ Use of Autonomy-Supportive Instruction: An Analysis of Three Asia-Pacific Countries
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Rae Young Kim
SJR Q1The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
EducationSocial Sciences
7
Article|22 citations·2012
Constructivist teaching and intra-school collaboration among teachers in South Korea: an uncertainty management perspective
Yun-Kyung Cha, Seung‐Hwan Ham
SJR Q1Asia Pacific Education Review
EducationSocial Sciences
8
Article|20 citations·2013
The Institutionalization of Multicultural Education as a Global Policy Agenda
Yun‐Kyung Cha, Seung‐Hwan Ham
SJR Q1The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
EducationSocial Sciences
9
Article|18 citations·2020
Towards a balanced multiculturalism? Immigrant integration policies and immigrant children's educational performance
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Hyojune Song, Kyung‐Eun Yang
SJR Q1Social Policy and Administration

Abstract The present study examines whether a host country's institutional environment of immigrant integration influences immigrant youth's integration into its educational system. Ensuring immigrant youth are well integrated into the educational system bears paramount societal significance because the educational pathways of these youth will determine not only their own life trajectories but also the future of society as an integrated whole. Based on a dataset that links PISA 2015 with MIPEX 2

EducationSocial Sciences
10
Article|18 citations·2014
The effect of multicultural education policy on ethno-linguistic minority students’ academic enjoyment and performance: Evidence from TIMSS 2011
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Hara Ku, Yun‐Kyung Cha
Multicultural Education Studies

This study examines the effect of multicultural curriculum policies on ethno-linguistic minority students’ academic enjoyment and performance. Based on a sample of 154,169 students in 31 countries from the TIMSS 2011 eighth-grade mathematics dataset, a series of within-nation hierarchical linear modeling analyses and subsequent cross-national regression analyses have been conducted. The findings of this study clearly suggest the possibility that the institutionalization of a multicultural curric

DemographySocial Sciences
11
Article|15 citations·2010
Duality of educational policy as global and local: the case of the gender equity agenda in national principles and state actions
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Lynn Paine, Yun-Kyung Cha
SJR Q1Asia Pacific Education Review
Political Science and International RelationsSocial Sciences
12
Article|10 citations·2023
Participative Decision-Making and School Innovativeness: An Uncertainty Management Perspective
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Seung-Hyun Lee
SJR Q1The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher
EducationSocial Sciences
13
Article|10 citations·2020
The impact of anti-discrimination policies on immigrant youths’ sense of national belonging: an institutionalist account
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Kyung‐Eun Yang
SJR Q1Policy Studies

How to help newcomers feel a greater sense of belonging in society has been the subject of ongoing debate in both policy and scholarly circles. This study posits that immigrant groups’ relatively low sense of belonging in many countries is partly a manifestation of unequal opportunity structure. Thus, the study hypothesizes that public anti-discrimination policies may serve as an effective intervention. Hierarchical linear modelling analyses have been conducted using data for 71,030 adolescents

Sociology and Political ScienceSocial Sciences
14
Book Chapter|8 citations·2019
Leadership for Instructional Uncertainty Management: Revisiting School Leadership in South Korea’s Context of Educational Reform
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Byeong Chan Kim, Wang Jun Kim
DemographySocial Sciences
15
Article|8 citations·2020
Which schools are in greater need of culturally responsive leaders? A pedagogical uncertainty management perspective
Seung‐Hwan Ham, Jihyun Kim, Saerom Lee
SJR Q2Multicultural Education Review

This study examines the possibility that certain schools may benefit more from culturally responsive leadership than others. We conceptualize culturally responsive leadership as a special form of leadership for uncertainty management. Acknowledging that student diversity usually adds additional complexity to the already difficult task of teaching, we hypothesize that the desired effect of principals’ culturally responsive leadership is more pronounced in schools in which alternative social mecha

EducationSocial Sciences

Research Areas

EducationAerospace EngineeringDemographySociology and Political ScienceInformation SystemsPolitical Science and International Relations

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