Information
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
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching
Curriculum Design, Evaluation, and Assessment
Linguistics for elementary teachers
Literacy education for upper elementary
Pre-Teaching Internship & Supervision
Publications
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. (2022). Children in immigrant families becoming literate: A window into identity construction, transnationality, and schooling. Routledge.
Lee, S. Y., & Winandy, J. (2021). 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]
Lee, S. Y. (2021). 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
Lee, S. Y. (2021). 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
Lee, S. Y. (2021). 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
Lee, S. Y. (2021). 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
Lee, S. Y. (2020). 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
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 [Best paper award]
So, K. H., Jang, J. K., & Lee, S. Y. (2011). 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
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.
(with Johanna Sitomaniemi-San) Historicizing teacher research in teacher education: The cases of the U.S. and Finland. American Education Research Association (AERA) annual meeting, Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education, Toronto, Canada.
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.
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.
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.
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.
(with J. Kim) Being bilingual: Navigating linguistic binaries and power. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Schooling as a mega-machine: Standardization, globalization, and appropriation. American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Deterritorializing teaching. Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
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
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 (1st runner-up), Seoul Education Training Institute
2011 Brain Korea 21 Scholarship, National Research Foundation of Korea
2010-11 National Research Scholarship (Humanities and Social Sciences), Korea Student Aid Foundation
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. 2021-2022. Amount: $4,500. Wichita State University
Principal Investigator. Teacher candidates’ understanding of Asian/Asian American students and families in Utah. 2021. Amount: $12,269. Hemingway Faculty Excellence Award. Weber State University
Professional Service Leadership
Co-Chair (2020-23), 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)