Ham, Seung-Hwan
Seung-Hwan’s research interests include: curricular policy and teacher education; cross-national research methods; and sociological analysis of educational policy. He holds a B.A. in Education and an M.A. in Sociology of Education, both from Hanyang University in Korea. Before coming to Michigan State University, he worked as lecturer in the Department of Cultural Studies at Bucheon University in Korea. Seung-Hwan’s doctoral study in Educational Policy at Michigan State University is funded by an Erickson Research Fellowship from Michigan State University’s College of Education.
Publications and Presentations
Cha, Y.-K., & Ham, S.-H. (2008). The impact of English on the school curriculum. In B. Spolsky & F. M. Hult (Eds.), Handbook of educational linguistics (pp. 313-327). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.
Ham, S.-H., Kim, R.-Y., & Paine, L. W. (2008). Beyond the global/national dichotomy: Mathematics teacher knowledge in South Korea and the United States. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), New York.
Ham, S.-H., Kim, R.-Y., & Tanner, P. (2008). Taking beliefs and knowledge seriously: The problems of language and scaling in alternative methods for comparative research on teacher knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), New York.
Cha, Y.-K., & Ham, S.-H. (2007). The global institutionalization of English instruction in primary and secondary curricula. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago.
Ham, S.-H., & Cha, Y.-K. (2007). The transnational diffusion of ICT education in school curricula. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago.
Kim, R.-Y., & Ham, S.-H. (2007). Cultural and institutional epistemology of mathematics teacher knowledge. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME), Seoul, Korea.
Cha, Y.-K., & Ham, S.-H. (2005). The global institutionalization of the information science education: A cross-national study [in Korean with English abstract]. Korean Journal of Comparative Education, 15(1), 167-190.
Awards
Anderson-Schwille Fellowship in International Education, Michigan State University (2008-09)
Summer Research Fellowship, Michigan State University (2008)
Erickson Research Fellowship, Michigan State University (2006-10)
Kwanjeong Scholarship, The Kwanjeong Educational Foundation of Korea (2003)
