Park co-authors article on music-themed early critical literacy instruction, presents on unplugged robotics and computational thinking

Professor of Child and Adolescent Development Soyeon Park co-authored the article, “A music-themed early critical literacy practice with young bilingual learners: A multiple case study,” published in Children & Society. The study explored how music-themed, critical media literacy instruction can be used as a facilitative medium to help young bilingual children deconstruct ideological discourse of the songs and gender representations in children's music videos.

Park also delivered a conference presentation at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, which took place in April 2022. Her co-authored paper titled, “Unplugged robotics curriculum to support computational thinking: A qualitative case study with five-year-old Korean children,” investigated how unplugged activities with robots provide young children with opportunities to develop concepts related to computational thinking in naturalistic settings. The findings suggest that screen-free, unplugged robotics can help children learn the foundational concepts and skills they need for the increasingly digital and technological society.