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 1) understanding how to broaden participation in science/STEM among youth from underservd communities and 2) designing innovative, empowering, and equitable science/STEM learning environments, and 3) supporting teachers and informal educators in teaching science/STEM to students from diverse backgrounds. Recently, Dr. Shin’s research involves Maker Movement/Maker Education, Engineering Design, and Design Thinking.

Science/STEM Education
Makerspace and Maker Education
Design Thinking
Engineering Design
Project-Based Learning
Diversity and Equity in Science/STEM Education

Grants

Collaborative Research: Broad implementation of Mobile Making: STEM-Making for engaging underserved communities across California, National Science Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator, award#2215656, 9/1/2022-8/31/2027, $502,509

Design Thinking for Innovation in Science Teaching: Preservice Teachers’ Applications of Design Thinking to Reinvent Science Lessons, Dandoy Research Grant, California State University, Principal Investigator, 7/1/2021-6/30/2022, $6,055

Re-envisioning Maker Education in STEM Teacher Preparation, Dandoy Research Grant, California State University, Fresno
Principal Investigator, 9/1/2018-5/31/2019, $3,000

STEM Teacher Education and School Strengthening Activity,
United States Agency for International Development, award#72026318C00003, Science Education Consultant, 2018-2023, $24,270,177

Enacting Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in a STEM Capstone Course for Preservice Elementary Teachers, Dandoy Research Grant, California State University, Fresno, Principal Investigator, 9/1/2017-5/31/2018, $2,667

Selected Publications
Shin, M., Lee, J., & Nelson, F. (2022). Funds of knowledge in making: reenvisioning maker education in teacher preparation. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 54(4), 635-653. http://doi.org/10.1080/15391523.2021.1908868

Macias, C., Shin, M., & Bennett, L. (2022). “They were teaching me!”: reimagining collaborative inquiry with elementary students in science teacher education. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 33(5), 466-487. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2021.1963392

Phan, T., & Shin, M. (2021). Re-imagining Technology Education for Student Teachers Using Human-centered Design. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 12(3). 31-48.

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.

Selected Presentations
Shin, M., & Lee, J. (2022, March). Placing Empathy at the Center of Engineering: Design Thinking Embraced by Preservice Teachers for Engineering Design. 2022 National Association for Research in Science Teaching Annual International Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Shin, M., Lee, J., & Nelson, F. (2021, April). Funds of Knowledge in Making: Re-envisioning Maker Education in Teacher Preparation. 2021 American Educational Research Association annual conference, Virtual Conference.