Dept. of Education
About
Haewon Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Education at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara, working with Dr. Jin Sook Lee. Her research examines critical approaches to Korean language teaching in heritage and foreign language contexts, with a focus on the socioemotional dimensions of learning, such as ethnic identity development and learner agency. Her current work focuses on developing online Korean language courses that are interactive, collaborative, and critically informed.