Jinhee Kim
Associate Professor, Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education
My intertwined research areas include immigrant children and families, children in poverty (especially, children experiencing homelessness), and marginalized children’s voices in the school curriculum. Through my scholarship, I would like to contribute to making those children's voices heard and empowering them so that school systems understand and support them.
Research Areas
- Immigrant children & families (centered on Asian American children and families)
- Highly mobile children ( children in poverty, especially children experiening homelessness)
- Home in the curriculum
- Teacher education
- Qualitative research (e.g., culturally sustaining research approach)
Recent Publications: (click here for other publications)
Kim, J. (2024). Teaching “home” in the curriculum. Teachers and Teaching. 30 (5), 701-715. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2024.2365176
Kim, J. (2024, online first). (Re)Configuring “home” for highly mobile children in early childhood education curriculum in the U.S. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2024.2347607
Kim, J. (2024). Against teaching home as housing in school: Examining how teachers teach home. Action in Teacher Education. 48(3), 261-274 https://doi.org/10.1080/01626620.2024.2335891
Kim, J., Han, S., Wee, S., & Meacham, S. (2024). Children’s names and naming practices: Wrestling with racism in Asian American families. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education. 18(3), 182-194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2023.2193884
Wee, S., Kim, J., & Yang, V. (2024). Unpacking East and Southeast Asian Immigrants Portrayed in Children’s Picturebooks: Centering on Immigration in Contemporary Times. Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts, 63 (2). 29-53. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/reading_horizons/vol63/iss2/3
Meacham, S., Wee, S., Kim, J., Han, S. & Heish, W. (2024). Early childhood and the Asian American experiences: Exploring intersectionality and addressing misrepresentations. Routledge.
Han, S., Kim, J., Meacham, S., & Wee, S. (2023). Supporting Korean American children in early childhood education: Perspectives from mother-educators. Teachers College Press. [The 2024 Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award, the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)]
Kim, J. (2023). “Where are Asian Americans?”: Exploring racialized discourse toward Asian Americans through critical ethnographic child-parent research. Ethnography and Education. 18(3), 264-279. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457823.2023.2230333.
Wee, S., Meacham, S., Kim, J. (2023, online first). Being (Asian) American children: Children’s exploration of racial/cultural identity and racism. Race, Ethnicity and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2023.2170434
Kim, J. (2023). Maintaining a heritage language in the early years: The perspectives of Korean immigrant mothers with young emergent bilinguals. In Cho, H & Song, K. (Eds.). Korean as a heritage language from transnational and translingual perspectives (pp. 15-30), Routledge.
Selected Awards/Honors/Grants
2024 Philip C. Chinn Multicultural Book Award, the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME)
2024 Brady Education Foundation research grant (PI, 2024-2026)
2024 2024-2025 Vertically Integrated Project grant (PI), KSU Office of Research, KSU, GA
2024 2024-2025 BCOE Research Team grant (PI), Bagwell College of Education, KSU, GA
2024 KSU APEX Award, KSU, GA
2024 BCOE Outstanding Senior Scholar Research Award, Bagwell College of Education, KSU, GA
2024 2024-2026 Ewha Global Fellow, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
2022 BCOE Research Grant Award 2022-2023, Bagwell College of Education, KSU
2021 KSU Summer Research Fellow, KSU Office of Research, KSU, GA
2020 BCOE Research Scholarship Award 2020-2021, Bagwell College of Education, KSU
2019 BCOE Research Fellowship Award 2019-2020, Bagwell College of Education, KSU
2010 Presidential Scholarship Award, Duquesne University, PA.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate courses
ECE 3313 Preschool Curriculum & Assessment
ECE 3305 Classroom Assessment for Elementary Teachers
Graduate courses
ECE 7511 Trends and Issues in Educational Inquiry in Elementary and Early Childhood Education
ECE 7513 Educational Equity in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings
ECE 7531 Reflective Inquiry for Elementary and Early Childhood Educators
ECE 7543 Professional Application of Inquiry for Elementary and Early Childhood Educators
