Postdoctoral Fellow, Leadership and Character
Email: hyunjul@wfu.edu
Phone: 336-758-5499
Dr. Hyunju Lee is a Part-Time Assistant Professor in the Department of Education and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program for Leadership and Character at Wake Forest University. She earned her B.A. in educational technology at Ewha Womans University in Korea, where she concentrated on learning motivation and instructional methods for holistic human development. After that, she earned her M.A. in spiritual formation at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and her M.T.S. in interdisciplinary religious studies at Boston University. She completed her Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa where she specialized in educational philosophy, transformative social-emotional learning, and social justice education. Her work centers on the ways in which aesthetic experience leads to transformative social-emotional learning and empowers underserved groups of students to become active social agents. She has conducted research on social-emotional learning, global citizenship education, and multicultural education in the United States, Kenya, and Korea.
Academic Appointments
Part-Time Assistant Professor, Department of Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program for Leadership and Character
Education
Ph.D., The University of Iowa, 2021
M.T.S., Boston University, 2014
M.A., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, 2012
B.A., Ewha Womans University, 2008
Past Professional Experiences
Co-Instructor, College of Education, The University of Iowa
Art Teacher, Mtree, Nairobi, Kenya
Field Researcher, Mtree, Nairobi, Kenya
EDU 101: Issues and Trends in Education: How to Educate Character
Lee, Hyunju. (2021). John Dewey and Global Citizenship Education: Beyond American and Postcolonial Nationalism in an Age of Cultural Hybridity. Education and Culture, 37(1), 121-142.
Lee, Hyunju, & Lee, M. J. (2021). Visual Art Education and Social-Emotional Learning in Rural Kenya. International Journal of Educational Research, 108.
Ahn, H. W., Lee, Hyunju, & An, B. P. (2022, April). Social Justice Orientation and Attitudes toward Immigrants: The Case of South Korea. American Educational Research Association (AERA). San Diego, CA.
Lee, Hyunju. (2021, November). The Act of Expression and the Re-Formation of Postcolonial Self: Implications for Critical Pedagogy. American Educational Studies Association (AESA). Portland, OR.
Lee, Hyunju, & Ahn, H. W. (2021, August). Social-Emotional Competence, School-Based Extracurricular Program, and Academic Achievement in Korea. American Psychological Association (APA). Virtual.
Lee, Hyunju & Ahn, H. W. (2021, April). Social-Emotional Competence and Help-Seeking for College Entrance in Different School Contexts. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Virtual.
Lee, Hyunju, & Lee, M. J. (2020, April). Visual Art Education and Social-Emotional Learning in Rural Kenya. American Educational Research Association (AERA). Conference Canceled.
Lee, Hyunju. (2018, April). John Dewey and Global Citizenship Education: Beyond American Nationalism and Postcolonial Nationalism in the 21st Century of Cultural Hybridity. John Dewey Society (JDS). New York, NY.
Lee, Hyunju. (2018, April). John Dewey and American Public Schools Envisioning Life Together. American Educational Research Association (AERA). New York, NY