MinJeong Kim is an Associate Professor, Language Arts and Literacy in the School of Education at UMass Lowell.

MinJeong Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Language Arts and Literacy

College
Fine Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Department
School of Education
Phone
978-934-4614

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
  • 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
  • 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 childrens' written narratives, 2005 - Wisconsin
  • Social construction of gender through preschool childrens' 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.