WSU journal sponsors researcher-in-residence series

A free lecture and workshop to help children better understand their cultural journeys will be given by researcher Ming Fang He. The lecture will be at Wichita State University, 3:30 p.m. Friday, April 30, in room 156a Corbin Education Center. The workshop will be 2-3:45 p.m. Saturday, May 1, at Northwest High School.

Friday, He will share her experience and that of three Chinese women colleagues as they found their lives caught between their traditional culture and their Canadian cultural experiences.

Saturday’s workshop of art and storytelling will assist educators and family members in using narrative storytelling, art and poetry with children who have immigrated to America. These aesthetic-based tools can help children of all cultures better understand and share their cultural journeys.

He lived through the cultural revolution in China and did her graduate work at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto, Canada.  She was a nominee for the Canadian Dissertation Award for 1998. She is assistant professor at Georgia Southern University.

The lecture/workshop is first in a researcher-in-residence series featured by The Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction, a new journal published by WSU and sponsored by the College of Education.