Sung Choon Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Social Studies
Curriculum and Instruction
304A Peabody Hall
Phone: 479-575-7052
FAX: 479-575-6676
scpark@uark.edu
Degrees:
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, Social Studies and Global Education, 2008
M.A., The Ohio State University, Social Studies and Global Education, 2008
M.A., Seoul National University, Ethics Education, 1996
B.A., Seoul National University, Ethics Education, 1994
Teaching Areas:
Social Studies Education
Teacher Education
Social Justice, Multicultural, and Global Education
Research Interests:
Teaching for Social Justice
Global Education
Affective Domains in Education
Professional Biography:
Dr. Sung Choon Park is an assistant professor of social studies in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Arkansas. He completed his doctoral work at the Ohio State University in 2008 with his dissertation "Teachers' perceptions of teaching for social justice." He was a teacher at Sang-Myung Girls’ Middle School and an instructor at Sook-Myung Women’s University in South Korea. He is an emerging young scholar whose academic excellence is recognized nationally and internationally.
Dr. Park was the recipient of the Kipchoge Kirkland Teaching for Social Justice Research Award presented by the College and University Faculty Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) in 2007. He served on the Graduate Student Committee of the Leadership for Social Justice SIG of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) 2007-2008. He started the Diversity and Empowerment Student Organization (DESO) of the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University, and he served the DESO as president for 2005-2007. He volunteered as a tutor at the Martin Luther King Library’s Homework Help Center in Columbus, Ohio, from 2005 through 2007. He was a speaker and cultural consultant for East Asia to secondary school students from 2002 through 2008.
Personal Information:
My doctoral dissertation was dedicated to my lovely mother who hoped to be a teacher. My work with pre-service and in-service teachers is solidly grounded on what I have learned from my mother who cares about people with less. I am also indebted to Dr. Cynthia Tyson at the Ohio State University for who I am and what I am teaching for. My son, Tyson Jinoo Park, was named after Dr. Tyson and his Korean (middle) name means a beautiful stone that will be helping others. He started kindergarten in 2008 and will be learning from my students in near future. I am happily married to my college sweetheart, Hye Kyung Lee, who was a teacher in Korea. I take a picture of my family every first day of the month since May 2003 and I will continue putting it up on what I call the Wall of Family.
I hope the Buckeyes and Razorbacks will meet at the national championship football game as many times as possible. Go both!
Publications/Presentations:
Publications
Park, S. C. & Tyson, C. A. (In press). Using multicultural literature in teaching for social justice. In E. Heilman (Ed.). Social Studies and Diversity Teacher Education: What We Do and Why We Do It. New York, Routledge.
Tyson, C. A. & Park, S. C. (2008). Civic education, social justice and Critical Race Theory. In J. Arthur, I. Davies, & C. Hahn (Eds.). Handbook of education for citizenship and democracy (pp. 29-39). Thousand Oaks: CA, SAGE.
Tyson, C. A. & Park, S. C. (2006). From theory to practice: Teaching for social justice. Social Studies and the Young Learners, 19(2), 23-25. National Council for the Social Studies.
Jung, D. Y., Kim, D. W., Kim, J. H., Lee, M. J., and Park, S. C. (2001). Education for international understanding for middle school students. Seoul: Saramsenggak.
Center for Civic Education. (2001). ##########[We the People ... PROJECT CITIZEN: A civic education project for grades 6 through 9] (W. K. Cha, H. Y. Lee, & S. C. Park, Trans.). Seoul, Korea: Wonmiesa. (Original work published 1999)
Cha, W. K., Song, J. B., Park, S. C., and Kim, Y. E. (2001). The research and development of achievement and assessment standards for Moral Education based on the 7th National Curriculum. Seoul: Korea Institute of Curriculum &a Evaluation Press.
Presentations
Park, S. C. Using multicultural literature in teaching for social justice. The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, November, 2008.
Park, S. C. Understanding social injustice in teaching for social justice: Experiential and empathic knowledge. College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, San Diego, November, 2007.
Park, S. C. Imperial legacy and global education: Teaching about two Koreas. College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA)of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, San Diego, November, 2007.
Park, S. C. Social justice defined from global perspectives. The University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) 2007 Annual Meeting, Alexandria, VA, November, 2007.
Park, S. C. Deconceptualing social justice: Teachers’ perceptions of social (in)justice. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, April, 2007.
Park, S. C. In search of socially just methodology. College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, Washington D. C., November, 2006.
Park, S. C. Standardizing diversity or diversifying standards: Changes in Korea’s university entrance exams. The 11th Annual Diversity Forum and Graduate Student Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2006.
Park, S. C. Teaching global issues, world cultures & global history. The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, Kansas City, November, 2005.
Park, S. C. No way back but to social justice: Teachers’ perceptions of teaching for social justice. College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, Kansas City, November, 2005.
Park, S. C. Anti-Americanism as structural violence in North Korea: Content analysis of news releases from the Official News Agency of North Korea. The 10th Annual Diversity Forum and Graduate Student Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2005.
Park, S. C. Cultural consultants’ bio excerpts: History, culture, and norms. The 10th Annual Diversity Forum and Graduate Student Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2005.
Park, S. C. A culturally strange supervisor’s autoethnography in American urban classrooms. The 9th Annual Diversity Forum and Graduate Student Symposium, Columbus, Ohio, May, 2004.
Park, S. C. Teaching about the world: A workshop with cultural consultants. Workshop chaired and paper presented at the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) Annual Conference, Chicago, November, 2003.
Park, S. C. Teaching about North Korea. The National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) Great Lakes Region Annual Conference, Cincinnati, April, 2003.
Park, S. C. Security issues in the Korean peninsula. Paper presented at the Delaware City Council for the Great Decision discussion, Delaware, Ohio, March, 2002.