Sun Young Lee Ph.D.

Academic Interests

• Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Areas of Expertise

• Curriculum Studies, Theories, and Histories
• Teacher Education
• Comparative and International Education
• Critical Literacy
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Teaching Interest

• Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching
• Curriculum Design, Evaluation, and Assessment
• Linguistics for elementary teachers
• Literacy education for upper elementary
• Pre-Teaching Internship & Supervision

Publications

• 2022 - Compton-Lilly, C., Shedrow, S., Hagerman, D., Hamman, L., Chi, Y.K., Kim, J., Lee, S.Y., Papoi, K., Quast, E., Ward, B., Zheng, B. Children in immigrant families becoming literate: A window into identity construction, transnationality, and schooling. Routledge.
• 2021 - Lee, S. Y., & Winandy, J. Scientization of teacher professional knowledges and construction of teaching methods. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1983621 [Published online first]
• 2021 - Lee, S. Y.  Rethinking teacher agency: Cybernetics, action research, and the production of process-oriented rationality. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 53(6), 821-840. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220272.2020.1858451
• 2021 - Lee, S. Y.  Showing professionalism: edTPA, technology-mediated observation, and visual politics in teacher education. Teaching and Teacher Education, 99, 103234. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2020.103234
• 2021 - Lee, S. Y. Now as a liminal space, writing as a patchwork: Autoethnographic reflections on the self in the middle of the pandemic. Qualitative Inquiry, 27(7), 773-777. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960181
• 2021 - Lee, S. Y.  The embrace of systems in the post-World War Two teacher education research. In Popkewitz, T. S., Pettersson, D., & Hsiao, K-J. (Eds.), The international emergence of educational sciences in the post-World War Two years: Quantification, visualization, and making kinds of people (pp. 149-166). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780429060540/chapters/10.4324/9780429060540-10
• 2020 - Lee, S. Y. Seeing the difference: Anticipatory reasoning of observation and its double gesture in teacher education. Curriculum Inquiry, 50(5), 378-399. https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2021.1877518
• 2012 - So, K., Kim, J., & Lee, S. Y. The formation of the South Korean identity through national curriculum in the South Korean historical context: Conflicts and challenges. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(6), 797-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.11.005 [Best paper award]
• 2011 - So, K. H., Jang, J. K., & Lee, S. Y. Review of the Australian curriculum: Process of the development and features. Korean Journal of Comparative Education, 21(2), 51-73.

Conference Panels Organized

• 2022 - Challenging the norms of preparing teachers for the future: Implications for practices, policies, and reforms. Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
• 2019 - How the sciences of curriculum became reasonable: Their emergence in Post-War years and its (dis)continuity. American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, Toronto, Canada.
• 2018 - The (im)possibility of methods in curriculum study and teacher education, and its “alternative” investigation. American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Selected Conference Presentations

• 2022 - Seeing through the screen: Historicizing the politics of visual technology in Cold War teacher education. American Educational Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, San Diego, CA.
• 2022 - Dyslexia as language policy: Science of reading, brain-based research, and the raciolinguistic construction of learning dis/ability. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
• 2022 - Unplannable future, writing during the pandemic: Reconsidering (un)certainty and (un)knowability as epistemic foundations of teacher education. Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
• 2022 - AsianCrit (Asian Critical Race Theory) and justice teacher education. Association of Teacher Educators (ATE) annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
• 2021 - Teacher education in tension: Historicizing the bifurcation between justice-oriented education and evidence-based education reforms. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies. (Virtual meeting)
• 2021 - Knowledge in crisis: COVID-19, the im/possibility to plan ahead, and opening-up the other potentials. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual meeting. (Virtual meeting)
• 2020 - Predictive policing of edTPA: The epistemological ambitions to clearly see teaching through (human intimacy-opted-out) technology. Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) annual meeting, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
• 2020 - Cybernetic Systems Model for Teacher Education: Historical tracing of teacher education as (national) research project [Paper Session]. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. http://tinyurl.com/svjqvrk (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
• 2020 - Future in the present: Post-humanist perspectives on teacher education and its technology. Korean American Education Researchers Association (KAERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada. (Conference canceled due to COVID-19)
• 2019 - Algorithmic governmentality in contemporary education reforms: The politics of datafication, digitalization, and visualization of teaching. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, Toronto, Canada.
• 2019 - Locating teachers’ vision as part of the system: Troubling the participatory rationale of “action”+“research.” American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, Toronto, Canada.
• 2019 - Historicizing teacher research in teacher education: The cases of the U.S. and Finland (with Johanna Sitomaniemi-San). American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, Toronto, Canada.
• 2019 - Difference as a curricular problem: The double gestures of multicultural education in South Korea. Korean American Education Researchers Association (KAERA) annual meeting, Toronto, Canada.
• 2018 - The inscribed (im)possibilities of observation as a “method” in teacher education. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division B: Curriculum Studies, New York City, New York, U.S.A.
• 2018 - The digitized archival fever in teacher education: edTPA as politics of memory, temporality and technology. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, SIG: Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies, New York City, New York, U.S.A. 
• 2017 - Anticipatory teacher: Temporality, utopic future, and its fears. Anticipation 2017 Conference. Senate House, University of London, London, U.K.
• 2017 - Disrupting the linearity of time in the practices of teaching. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, SIG: Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A. 
• 2017 - Temporal dimensions of a biracial child’s identity construction. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division G: Social Context and Education, San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
• 2017 - Being bilingual: Navigating linguistic binaries and power(with J. Kim). Symposium at the Annual Conference of the Literacy Research Association (LRA), Tampa, Florida, U.S.A.
• 2016 - Gendered multiculturalism in South Korea: “Multicultural family” as the hope and fear of nation’s future. International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE): Education and the Body, 38th annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• 2016 - Anticipatory technologies in preparing teachers for “the future”: The case of contemporary American teacher observation system. Preconference on “Merit and achievement as a paradigm: Discourses and practices in a historical perspective.” International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE): Education and the Body, 38th annual meeting, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• 2015 - Making-up “multicultural family” in South Korea: Globalization, lifelong learner, and gender performativity. 36th Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.
• 2015 - Un-naturalizing time and observation in teacher development: Preliminary investigation on “ocularcentrism” in reflective teacher education. 36th Annual Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. 
• 2015 - Making-up “multicultural” kinds of people: Historicizing the present of multicultural education in South Korea. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division G: Social Context and Education, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
• 2015 - Schooling as a mega-machine: Standardization, globalization, and appropriation.  American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. 
• 2015 - Deterritorializing teaching. Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.

Professional Experience

• 2021-Present -  Assistant Professor, Wichita State University
• 2019-2021 -  Assistant Professor, Weber State University
• 2015-2019 -  University Supervisor and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2007-2009 & 2010-2013  - Elementary School Teacher, Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education

Awards and Honors

• 2022 - Tilford Faculty Diversity Fellowship Award, Wichita State University
• 2021 - Hemingway Faculty Excellence Award, Weber State University
• 2020 - Michael B. Salwen Scholarship Award, Korean American Educational Researchers Association (KAERA)
• 2019 - Curriculum and Instruction Travel & Research Funding, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2018 - Hartzman International Research Award, School of Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2017  - John and Tashia Morgridge Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship ($20,500), Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2017 - AERA Division B Pre-Conference Award for Sensuous Curriculum: Possibilities and Politics of the Sense in Curriculum Studies, American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 - Vilas Student Research Travel Grant – Conference Presentation Funds, Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 2013 - Best Academic Research Performance Award of the Year, National Research Foundation of Korea ,[So, K., Kim, J., & Lee, S.Y. (2012). The formation of the South Korean identity through national curriculum in the South Korean historical context: Conflicts and challenges. International Journal of Educational Development, 32(6), 797-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.11.005]
• 2013 - Best Teacher Performance Award (1^st runner-up), Seoul Education Training Institute
• 2011 - Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Korea
• 2010-2011 - National Research Scholarship (Humanities and Social Sciences), Korea Student Aid Foundation

Grants

• 2021-2022 - Principal Investigator. Dyslexia as language policy: Exploring the initial implementation stage of Dyslexia Initiatives (DI) in Wichita School District, Kansas. University Research/Creative Project Award. Amount: $4,500. Wichita State University
• 2021 - Principal Investigator. Teacher candidates’ understanding of Asian/Asian American students and families in Utah. Amount: $12,269. Hemingway Faculty Excellence Award. Weber State University

Professional Service Leadership

• 2020-2023 - Co-Chair, Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), Post-foundational Approach (PfA) Special Interest Group

Journal Editorship

• 2022-Present -  Column Editor of Diverse Children’s Literature, Kansas English

Memberships

• 2021-Present - Association of Teacher Educators (ATE)
• 2015-Present -  American Education Research Association (AERA)
• 2015-Present - Korean-American Education Researchers Association (KAERA)                                                                     
• 2015-Present - International Standing Conferences for the History of Education (ISCHE)
• 2013-Present - Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)