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Minjeong Kim

Associate professor, UMass Lowell

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.