Minjeong Kim

Associate professor, UMass Lowell
My expertise includes the literacy and language development of children with diverse backgrounds, multicultural children's literature, and teacher education.

Education:

Ph.D.: Integrated Teaching and Learning, (2008), The Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
Supporting Area: Early Childhood Education and Literacy Studies
Dissertation/Thesis Title: Early literacy learning of young children with and without hearing loss: Written narrative development

MA: Special Education, (2002), Dankook University - Seoul, Korea
Supporting Area: Deaf and Communication Disorder Education
Dissertation/Thesis Title: Story grammar, writing strategies and text knowledge in hearing impaired children with different levels of writing proficiencies.

BA: Special Education (Specialty Area: Deaf Education), (2000), Dankook University - Seoul, Korea
Supporting Area: Specialty Area: Deaf Education

Selected Awards and Honors

AERA SIG Award (2006), Service, Community - American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group

College of Education Scholarship (2006), Scholarship/Research - The Ohio State University

Ray Travel Award (2006), Service, University - The Ohio State University

Teacher Training Award (2002) - Korea Institute for Special Education

Department Scholarship (2001) - Department of Education, Dankook University, Seoul, Korea

LG Global Challenger Award in Education and Art (1998) - LG Seoul, Korea

LG International Study Program Award (1998)

Selected Publications

Kim, M.J. (2006). "Conceptualizing early childhood literacy for literacy education of children with special needs," Korean Journal of Special Education, 41 183-214.

Kim, M.J. (2002). "Story grammar, writing strategies and text knowledge in hearing impaired children with different levels of writing proficiencies.," Korean Journal of Special Education, 37 143-170.

Selected Presentations

The States of Southeast Asian Communities in New England - The 2014 States of Southeast Asian American Studies, October 2014 - Minneapolis, MN

Finding a voice through storytelling, 2011 - New Orleans, LA.

Contextualization and de-contextualization of narrative practices in classroom, 2010 - Denver, CO

What counts as homeless context, 2010 - Columbus ,OH

What does context mean?, 2010 - Denver, CO

Narrative development of children with hearing loss as language socialization, 2009 - San Diego, CA

Pedagogies of possibility for critical consciousness, 2009

Discourse Analysis in Education Conference in Columbus - Discourse Analysis in Education Conference , 2008 - Ohio

Pedagogies of possibility for critical consciousness, 2008

Using and analyzing video data in ethnographic and cross-disciplinary studies of learning settings from multiple perspectives, 2008 - New York

- American Educational Research Association, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Children building on peers, 2007 - Chicago, IL
Understanding narrative development as intertextual practices, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Reconceptualizing genre development in preschool childrens' oral and written narratives, 2006 - San Francisco, CA

Social construction of intertextuality of deaf children during literacy events, 2006 - San Francisco, CA

Intertextuality and reading at an elementary level, 2005 - Pittsburg, PA

Reconceptualizing genre development in preschool children's written narratives, 2005 - Wisconsin

Social construction of gender through preschool children's oral storytelling events, 2005 - Montreal Canada

Selected Contracts, Fellowships, Grants and Sponsored Research

KF Korean Studies Workshop for Educators 2013 (2013), -
Kim, M.J. (Principal)
Min Kim (2010), Grant - The Korea Foundation
Kim, M. (Principal)
Min Kim (2010), - University of Massachusetts Lowell
Kim, M. (Principal)
KF Korean Studies Workshop for Education 2012 (2012), -
Kim, M.J. (Principal)
KF Korean Studies Workshop for Education (2011), -
Kim, M.J. (Principal)
KF Korean Studies Workshop for Education (2010), -
Kim, M.J. (Principal)
Min Kim (2009), Grant - Paguin Adams Grant
Kim, M. (Principal)
Min Kim (2009), Grant - Tewksbury Public Schools
Kim, M. (Co-Principal)
Min Kim (2009), Grant - University of Massachusetts Lowell
Kim, M.
Tewksbury and UML K-12 Literacy Instruction Partnership for Professional Development (2009), Grant - Massachusetts Department of Secondary and Elementary Education
Bifuh-Ambe, E. (Principal), Kim, M.J., Simmons, J.W.,
Min Kim (2008), Grant - City of Woburn
Kim, M.
Professional Development in Early Literacy (2009), -
Kim, M.J. (Principal)
Alumni Research Grant (), Grant - Ohio State University
Kim, M.
Graduate Student Conference Grant (), Grant - The Ohio State University
Kim, M.