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Kremen School of Education and Human Development

Myunghwan Shin

Assistant Professor

Liberal Studies | 559.278.0336 | Office: ED453

mshin@csufresno.edu

Education

  • Michigan State University - Ph.D. in Curriculum, Instruction, and Teacher Education (Science Education), 2016
  • Seoul National University - M.S. in Science Education, 2010
  • Seoul National University - B.S. in Earth and Space Science Education, 2005

Courses Taught

  • Community-based Learning in STEM
  • Science Instruction and Applied Technology
  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in STEM
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Science Teaching Theory and Methods 

Dr. Shin is an Assistant Professor of STEM Education in the Department of Liberal Studies at California State University, Fresno. Dr. Shin’s research focuses on understanding what learning experience or support facilitates preservice teachers’ development of competence in teaching STEM to students from diverse backgrounds. Recently, Dr. Shin’s research involves Maker Movement/maker education, Design Thinking, and collaborative teacher inquiry.

  • Science/STEM Education
  • Makerspace and Maker Education
  • Design Thinking
  • Engineering Design 
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Diversity and Equity in Science/STEM Education
Shin, M., Lee, J., & Nelson, F. (in press, 2021). Funds of Knowledge in Making: Reevisioning Maker Education in Teacher Preparation. Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 

Macias, C., Shin, M., & Benette, L. (accepted, 2021). "They Were Teaching Me!": Reimagining Collaborative Inquiry with Elementary Students in Science Teacher Education. Journal of Science Teacher Education. 

Phan, T., & Shin, M. (accepted, 2021). Design Thinking and Human-centered Design: Re-imagining Technology Education for Student Teachers. Journal of Formative Design in Learning. 

Shin, M., Greenberg, D, & Nazar, C. (2018). "We Wanna Makerspace!": Youth Participatory Action Research Towards the Design of Equity-Oriented Making. In Calabrese Barton, A., & Tan, E. (Eds). STEM-Rich Maker Learning: Designing for Equity with Youth of Color (pp. 34-61). New York, NY: Teacher College Press.

Tan, E., Calabrese Barton, A., Shin, M., & Turner, C. (2016). Probing participatory partnerships: Equitably-consequential making by, for and with marginalized youth. In FabLearn 2016 Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on Creativity and Fabrication in Education (pp. 1-8). Stanford, CA.

Calabrese Barton, A., Tan, E., & Shin, M. (2016). Mobilities of Criticality: Space-Making, Identity and Agency in a Youth-Centered Makerspace. Singapore: International Society of the Learning Sciences, 2016.

Shin, M., Calabrese Barton, A., & Johnson, L. (2016). “I am an Innovator: Quahn’s Counter-Narrative of Becoming in STEM.” In Marx, S. (Ed). Qualitative Research in STEM: Studies of Equity, Access and Innovation (pp. 15-35). New York, NY: Routledge.

Kang, D., Shin, M., Shin, P., We, H., Yun, K., Yang, C., Kim, J., Min, H., Noh, T., & Kim, C.J. (2012). The Types of Inter-language of Middle School Students in the Process of Learning Diastrophism. Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society, 33 (1), 59-72.

Yang, C., Kim, J., Shin, P., We, H., Shin, M., Kang, D., Kim, S., Min, H., Kim, C.J., & Noh, T. (2011).  The Pattern of Inter-language in Science Learning and the Characteristics of Inter-language through the Change of Understanding of Science Language. Journal of the Korean Association for Research in Science Education, 31 (5), 745-757.

Shin, M., Maeng, S., & Kim, C.J. (2010). A Comparative Analysis of the Linguistic Features of Texts Used in the Volcano and Earthquake Unit in Korean Elementary and Secondary School Science Textbooks. Journal of the Korean Earth Science Society, 31 (7), 36-50.

Maeng, S., Shin, M., Cha, H., Ham, S., Shin, H., &  Kim, C.J. (2010). Understanding of the Linguistic Features of Earth Science Treaties: Register Analysis Approach. Journal of Korean Earth Science Society, 31 (7), 785-797.