Minsun Shin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6739138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minsun Shin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minsun |
| FAMILY NAME | Shin |
| SIGNATURE | SHIN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Montclair State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0531-5848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Urban Field Experience and Teacher Identity
Teacher identity is crucial for aspiring teachers as they shift from learners to teachers, navigate multiple identities in various contexts, and develop professionally. This study explores the perceptions and emerging teacher identities of prospective teachers at a public university in New Jersey, USA, utilizing data collected through draw-and-write tasks and reflections. Guided by the grounded theory process, the findings revealed that initial p…
Against the clock
While juxtaposing the dominant neoliberal pressures of productivity and performativity with feminist perspectives on relationality and care, this colloquium examines the often overlooked and undervalued role of slowness in early childhood education and care. By analyzing an anecdote from infant caregiving, it highlights the pedagogical significance of slowness—reestablishing educators’ connection with time, honoring the unhurried pace of young ch…
Drawing teacher identity
Teacher identity significantly influences pedagogical decisions, classroom practices, and professional development. Understanding the development of preservice teacher identity is particularly important during initial teacher education, as it involves navigating and integrating the perspectives of both a learner and an emerging teacher. This exploratory study investigated the perceptions of teacher identity held by students in a teacher education…
We’re all struggling’
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in every country in unprecedented, unimaginable ways. The abrupt transition to remote teaching due to the pandemic has posed several challenges to traditional teacher education programmes and altered student teaching experiences. This study aims to explore the student teaching experiences of pre-service student teachers enrolled in an initial teacher education programme in the United States. An analysis o…
Confronting childism and prioritizing a holistic approach during the Covid-19 crisis
This colloquium discusses the crucial need to reconcile the ironic dilemma of enforcing social-distancing measures and social relationships simultaneously during the COVID-19 crisis. Young children have been exposed to multifaceted challenges during this time. However, their well-being, education, and safety have often been overlooked, ignored, or compromised. It is argued that society should abandon childism, which is prejudice and/or discrimina…
Confronting (de)humanizing remote teaching practices
This colloquium discusses the critical need to reimagine human connections in the context of remote instruction necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators should envisage humanizing and caring teaching practices, and address the needs of the whole person, in order to counteract education inequities and empower students in times of disruption and opportunity
To love or not to love, that is the question
This colloquium discusses the intersection of love, care, and education in the field of early childhood education and care. While the name of the field reflects the belief that both care and education are seen as legitimate elements of the field’s professional discourse, love is still unspoken, undefined, and taken for granted. The author argues that love is professional yet very personal, involving the feelings and strong emotional connection th…
The role of joint attention in social communication and play among infants
Joint attention enables infants to communicate with adults as well as with each other, sharing what is in their minds. Yet, communicative competence and joint attention between infant peers have received little attention in the literature. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how infants under the age of two within a childcare setting communicate with each other through joint attention and social understanding during daily interac…
Peeking at the relationship world of infant friends and caregivers
This qualitative study aimed to explore how infants share and experience friendships and examine the role of infant caregivers in social and friendship experiences among infants. The data were collected through classroom observation over a semester. Findings yielded complex and rich social relationships that both infant friends and caregivers collectively share. Infant friends exhibited strong preference toward each other and share caring, affect…
Understanding early childhood leadership
In this qualitative study, multidimensional characteristics of the emerging leadership behavior of six young children were examined within their early childhood classrooms (infant, toddler, and preschool). Grounded in a constructivist framework, the data were gathered through teacher interviews and classroom observations in a University-affiliated center over a six-week period. Findings yielded two major themes which best described the characteri…
The role of joint attention in social communication and play among infants
Joint attention enables infants to communicate with adults as well as with each other, sharing what is in their minds. Yet, communicative competence and joint attention between infant peers have received little attention in the literature. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how infants under the age of two within a childcare setting communicate with each other through joint attention and social understanding during daily interac…
Peeking at the relationship world of infant friends and caregivers
This qualitative study aimed to explore how infants share and experience friendships and examine the role of infant caregivers in social and friendship experiences among infants. The data were collected through classroom observation over a semester. Findings yielded complex and rich social relationships that both infant friends and caregivers collectively share. Infant friends exhibited strong preference toward each other and share caring, affect…
Understanding early childhood leadership
In this qualitative study, multidimensional characteristics of the emerging leadership behavior of six young children were examined within their early childhood classrooms (infant, toddler, and preschool). Grounded in a constructivist framework, the data were gathered through teacher interviews and classroom observations in a University-affiliated center over a six-week period. Findings yielded two major themes which best described the characteri…
Understanding early childhood leadership
In this qualitative study, multidimensional characteristics of the emerging leadership behavior of six young children were examined within their early childhood classrooms (infant, toddler, and preschool). Grounded in a constructivist framework, the data were gathered through teacher interviews and classroom observations in a University-affiliated center over a six-week period. Findings yielded two major themes which best described the characteri…
Peeking at the relationship world of infant friends and caregivers
This qualitative study aimed to explore how infants share and experience friendships and examine the role of infant caregivers in social and friendship experiences among infants. The data were collected through classroom observation over a semester. Findings yielded complex and rich social relationships that both infant friends and caregivers collectively share. Infant friends exhibited strong preference toward each other and share caring, affect…
The role of joint attention in social communication and play among infants
Joint attention enables infants to communicate with adults as well as with each other, sharing what is in their minds. Yet, communicative competence and joint attention between infant peers have received little attention in the literature. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how infants under the age of two within a childcare setting communicate with each other through joint attention and social understanding during daily interac…
To love or not to love, that is the question
This colloquium discusses the intersection of love, care, and education in the field of early childhood education and care. While the name of the field reflects the belief that both care and education are seen as legitimate elements of the field’s professional discourse, love is still unspoken, undefined, and taken for granted. The author argues that love is professional yet very personal, involving the feelings and strong emotional connection th…
Confronting (de)humanizing remote teaching practices
This colloquium discusses the critical need to reimagine human connections in the context of remote instruction necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Educators should envisage humanizing and caring teaching practices, and address the needs of the whole person, in order to counteract education inequities and empower students in times of disruption and opportunity
Confronting childism and prioritizing a holistic approach during the Covid-19 crisis
This colloquium discusses the crucial need to reconcile the ironic dilemma of enforcing social-distancing measures and social relationships simultaneously during the COVID-19 crisis. Young children have been exposed to multifaceted challenges during this time. However, their well-being, education, and safety have often been overlooked, ignored, or compromised. It is argued that society should abandon childism, which is prejudice and/or discrimina…
Drawing teacher identity
Teacher identity significantly influences pedagogical decisions, classroom practices, and professional development. Understanding the development of preservice teacher identity is particularly important during initial teacher education, as it involves navigating and integrating the perspectives of both a learner and an emerging teacher. This exploratory study investigated the perceptions of teacher identity held by students in a teacher education…
We’re all struggling’
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people in every country in unprecedented, unimaginable ways. The abrupt transition to remote teaching due to the pandemic has posed several challenges to traditional teacher education programmes and altered student teaching experiences. This study aims to explore the student teaching experiences of pre-service student teachers enrolled in an initial teacher education programme in the United States. An analysis o…
Against the clock
While juxtaposing the dominant neoliberal pressures of productivity and performativity with feminist perspectives on relationality and care, this colloquium examines the often overlooked and undervalued role of slowness in early childhood education and care. By analyzing an anecdote from infant caregiving, it highlights the pedagogical significance of slowness—reestablishing educators’ connection with time, honoring the unhurried pace of young ch…
Urban Field Experience and Teacher Identity
Teacher identity is crucial for aspiring teachers as they shift from learners to teachers, navigate multiple identities in various contexts, and develop professionally. This study explores the perceptions and emerging teacher identities of prospective teachers at a public university in New Jersey, USA, utilizing data collected through draw-and-write tasks and reflections. Guided by the grounded theory process, the findings revealed that initial p…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Early childhood education (3 works) · Mathematics education (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works)