Dr. Sun Young Lee will receive the 2025 Early Career Award from AERA’s Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies Special Interest Group.
Wichita State University
CAS faculty and student scholars to present research at 2025 AERA conference
April 21, 2025
Wichita State University’s College of Applied Studies (CAS) will be well represented at the 2025 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, with faculty and student scholars sharing research, leading presentations and earning national recognition. The conference will be held April 23–27 in Denver, Colorado and is one of the largest gatherings of scholars in the field of education.
CAS Student and Faculty Scholars to Present:
Student Scholars: Hollie J. Weatherburn, Shelly Coleman-Martins, Van Williams, Tamara Huff, Rachael Webb, Kiela Wood, Kayla Day, Kurt Siklar
Faculty Scholars: Sun Young Lee, Victoria Koop (Sherif), Heidi R. Stinchcomb, Angela Beeler, M. Patricia Hernandez-Nuhfer, Lakaya Bieker, Kristin Sherwood, Valerie J. Thompson, Beata M. Latawiec, Christie Henderson, Jennifer Ingrid Friend
Award Recognition:
Dr. Sun Young Lee, assistant professor in the School of Education, will receive the 2025 Early Career Award from AERA’s Critical Issues in Curriculum and Cultural Studies (CICCS) Special Interest Group. The award will be presented on Friday, April 25.
CAS Research Presentations:
Thinking Outside the Inbox: Effectiveness and Challenges of District Internal Communication
Wednesday, April 23 | 9:00–10:30 a.m.
Presenters: Victoria Koop (Sherif), Rachael Webb, Kiela Wood, Kayla Day, Kurt Siklar
Teacher Recruitment Recovery: Exploring the Perceptions and Experiences of Recently Hired Teachers
Wednesday, April 23 | 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Presenters: Hollie Weatherburn, Shelly Coleman-Martins, Victoria Koop (Sherif), Van
Williams
Cruel Optimism in Teacher Education: Paradoxical Hope of Making the Professional Teacher in South Korea
Wednesday, April 23 | 4:20–5:50 p.m.
Presenters: Sun Young Lee (WSU), Soo Bin Jang (University of Delaware)
Epistemic Beliefs and Interpersonal Communicative Competences in Preservice Teachers’ Dialogic Argumentation
Thursday, April 24 | 8:00–9:30 a.m.
Presenters: Beata M. Latawiec, Christie Henderson
Power of Caring and Sharing: Collaborative Polyethnographical Journey of Building Community Through Peer Mentorship among Korean Emerging Scholars
Friday, April 25 | 8:00–9:30 a.m.
Presenters: Katie Koo, Jackie Relyea, Kyongson Park, Chansoon Lee, Soo Bin Jang, Sun
Young Lee (WSU)
School-University Partnerships to Enhance Rural School-Based Mental Health Services: The SPIRSS Project
Saturday, April 26 | 8:00–9:30 a.m.
Presenters: Heidi R. Stinchcomb, Angela Beeler, M. Patricia Hernandez-Nuhfer, Lakaya
Bieker
Seeing the Brain, Scientizing Teacher Knowledge: Questioning the Inclusivity in Science of Reading Reforms
Saturday, April 26 | 9:50–11:20 a.m.
Presenter: Sun Young Lee
Teachers’ Sense-Making of the Science of Reading Reforms: Benefits and Struggles in the Classrooms
Saturday, April 26 | 9:50–11:20 a.m.
Presenter: Sun Young Lee
Exploring Remedy, Repair, and Resistance Across School Desegregation Experiences
Saturday, April 26 | 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Presenters: Candace Schlein (UMKC), Loyce E. Caruthers (UMKC), Jennifer Ingrid Friend
Interrogating Asianized Native Speakerism and Academic Imperialism Through Translanguaging Spaces: From Korean-English Bilingual Perspectives
Saturday, April 26 | 4:20–5:50 p.m.
Presenters: Jin Kyeong Jun, Soo Bin Jang, Sun Young Lee (WSU), Taeyeon Kim
The Systemic Academic Pandemic: How Black Families Experience School Engagement After Race and COVID-19 Collide
Sunday, April 27 | 9:50–11:20 a.m.
Presenters: Tamara Huff, Kristin Sherwood
Two Things Can Be True: Supporting Black Students in the Quest Towards HIS Servingness
Sunday, April 27 | 9:50–11:20 a.m.
Presenters: Valerie J. Thompson, Hollie Weatherburn
John Dewey and the Question of Global Whiteness: A Postfoundational History of Transpacific Education Reforms
Sunday, April 27 | 9:50–11:20 a.m.
Presenter: Sun Young Lee
Teacher Recruitment: Relationship Between Teacher Applicant Demographics and Sources of Job Information
Sunday, April 27 | 1:30–3:00 p.m.
Presenters: Victoria Koop (Sherif), Hollie J. Weatherburn, Shelly Coleman-Martins,
Van Williams