Biography

Dr. Mia Kang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Elementary Education in the School of Education at Utah Valley University. She has been at UVU since 2011 and her teaching focuses on ESL Teaching Methods (EDEL 443G) and Multicultural Education (EDEL 330G). She has been in public education for 30 years_ mostly in secondary education in South Korea (15 years), and in elementary and higher education in the US (15 years).

Her academic interests broadly encompass critical multicultural/multilingual curriculum and pedagogy for social justice and equity, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, curriculum theory, and educational policy studies. In recent five years, she has worked on the multicultural/multilingual politics in South Korea and in the US, and teacher recruitment and retention in international contexts.

In addition to 20+ research articles, Dr. Kang published two books in 2015_ Multicultural Education in South Korea (in English) and Why Did Multicultural Politics become the Conservatives' Agenda in South Korea (in Korean). With a federal grant in 2016-2017, she developed supportive programs to help elementary teacher candidates who struggled to pass the Praxis Subject Assessments in the US.

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Teaching