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Mia Kang

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Dr. Mia Kang

Biography

Dr. Mia Kang is Associate Professor and the Department Chair of Graduate Education in the School of Education at Utah Valley University. She has been at UVU since 2011 and her teaching in the graduate programs focuses on Diversity and Differentiation, Contemporary Issues in Education, Global Issues in Teaching and Learning, and Mater's Project. For undergraduate programs, Dr. Kang teaches ESL Teaching Methods and Multicultural Education. She has been in public education for 33 years_ secondary education in South Korea (15 years), and elementary and higher education in the US (18 years).

Her academic interests broadly encompass critical multicultural/multilingual curriculum and pedagogy, teacher education, and educational policy studies. In recent five years, she has worked on the multicultural/multilingual politics in South Korea and in the US, teacher recruitment and retention in international contexts, gender studies, and refugees Education.

As the Graduate Education Department Chair, Dr. Kang is in charge of 10 master's programs in the School of Education and 10 Endorsement Programs in collaboration with service-area school districts.

Education

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011

Major: Curriculum and Instruction

Teaching

EDUC 6400

Contemporary Issues in Teacher Leadership, Fall 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Fall 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Fall 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Fall 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Summer 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Summer 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Summer 2024

EDUC 6490

Masters Project, Summer 2024

EDUC 6490

Masters Project, Summer 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Spring 2024

EDUC 694R

Directed Individual Study, Spring 2024

EDUC 520R

Special Topics in Education, Spring 2024

Presentations

Kang, Mia , APPEL Leadership Conference, "APPEL Coursework Alignment to the 2025 General Teacher Preparation Competencies", Utah State Board of Education, Sandy, UT. (October 25, 2024)
Lynch, Kathleen (Co-Presenter), Meshulam, Assaf (Co-Presenter), Sung, Youl-Kwan (Co-Presenter), Kang, Mia (Co-Presenter), American Association Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference , "Apple's Impact on Education_ A Global Perspective ", AERA , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (April 11, 2024)
Kang, Mia (Presenter & Author), Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) Annual Conference , "Two Female Young Adults Reclaming Refugee Identities_ An Ecological Systems Analysis", KAME, Seoul, South Korea . (May 18, 2023)
Kang, Mia (Presenter & Author), American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Conference, "Social Activism of Youth Feminist Groups During the #SchoolMeToo Movements in South Korea", AERA , Chicago, Illinois . (April 14, 2023)
Kang, Mia (Presenter & Author), American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Annual Conference , "Social Dimensions and Processes of Multilingual Socialization among Refugee Background Young Adults", Portland, Oregon. (March 20, 2023)
Kang, Mia (Presenter & Author), Utah Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (UT NAME), "I am Not Sorry to Be a Refugee.: Three Female Young Adults Reclaining Refugee Identities", Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. (February 25, 2023)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Kang, Mia , "Two Female Young Adults Reclaiming Refugee Identities_ An Ecological Systems Analysis " . London: Multicultural Education Review .
Shin, Kyunghee , Kang, Mia , Rowley, Rhet , Warburton, Trevor , Ilieva, Vessela , (2024) "A Case Study on Rural Small School Teachers' Agency_ Focusing on the US Teachers in the Intermountain Region" (Issue: 3, vol. 15). Seoul: Cultural Exchange & Multicultural Education.
Kang, Mia , (2024) "Introduction " . Seoul: Educational Science Publishing. https://www.yes24.com/Product/Goods/132973680
Kang, Mia , (2024) "US History of Women's Education" . Seoul : Educational Science Publishing (교육과학사). https://www.yes24.com/Product/Goods/132973680
Kang, Mia , (2021) "Diversity of the Korean Language and Language Democratization" . Seoul : Pieona . https://m.yes24.com/Goods/Detail/107096118
Sohn, Bong-Gi , Kang, Mia , (2021) "“We contribute to the development of South Korea”: Bilingual womanhood and politics of bilingual policy in South Korea" (Issue: 2, vol. 40). Multilingua. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/multi-2020-0034

Awards

Research Travel Award

Korean Association for Multicultural Education (KAME) - May 18, 2023

The KAME awards this honor to 3-4 international scholars each year to support their research in multicultural and multilingual education, as well as to help them present at the annual conference. KAME covered my flight and hotel expenses for the conference, in addition to providing $1,000 in compensation.

Foundations of Inclusion Award

Utah Valley University - February 17, 2023

I participated in 10 FOI Workshops to enhance my teaching in diversity and inclusion.

Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University - March, 2018

With outstanding records of teaching excellence along with a strong record of scholarship and service, the SOE Faculty Excellence Award Selection Committee recommended me for the award, which was approved by the University.