GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES SPEAKERS SERIES:
Understanding educational diversity around the world
What does education look like in other countries? What do you know about the countries of international and diasporic students sitting in US classrooms? Hear from international graduate students about the educational systems in their home countries.
Friday, February 21st from noon to 1 pm
in 210A Education Building
PIZZA WILL BE PROVIDED
SOUTH KOREA:
Internationalization of Higher Education
Gayoung Chung is a PhD student in Global Studies in Education in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership. Her current research focuses on activism of undocumented Korean American youths struggling to navigate their life within the intertwined tension of restricted citizenship and racial stereotype. She worked as a researcher at National Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Korea and Korean Women’s Development Institution of Ministry of the Gender Equality & Family in South Korea.
MiYun Suh is a doctoral student in the Language & Literacy division at the department of Curriculum and Instruction. Her research interest focuses on children’s bilingualism and cultural perspective change. Her research involves perceptions of Korean bilingual elementary students’ parents, as well as the multiple aspects of children’s life including parents, peers, school, and other kinds of social settings where second language learning occurs.
Jaehee Park joined the Doctoral program in Curriculum and Instruction in Fall 2012 after earning an MA in South Korea. Her research deals with content-based literacy learning, bilingual/ESL education in K-12 and heritage education of minority communities. She has been teaching a great number of students in various grades in South Korea and in the U.S.
SPRING 2014
January 31 — China, 1080 FLB
February 14 — Serbia, 210a ED
February 21 — South Korea, 210a ED
February 28 – Tanzania, 333 ED
March 7 – Chile, 242 ED
March 14 — Sri Lanka, 242 ED
April 4 — Malaysia, 242 ED
April 11 — Philippines, 242 ED
April 18 — Indonesia, 242 ED
April 25 — Senegal, 333 ED
May 2 — Wrap-Up and Celebration, 242 ED
(All presentations will begin at noon.)
This speaker series is co-sponsored by the College of Education (Office of International Programs, Global Studies in Education and Community for Global Studies in Education) and by the College of LAS (Student Academic Affairs Office).
For questions, please contact: Mauricio Pino Yancovic (mypino2@illinois.edu), Xiuying Cai (xcai7@illinois.edu ), or Nicole Lamers (lamers@illinois.edu ).