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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Lesley University, PhD Program in Educational Studies

Associate Professor July 2022 to Present

Gettysburg College, Education Department

Chair & Certification Officer December 2020 to June 2022

Interim Chair Spring 2019

Associate Professor August 2017 to June 2022

Assistant Professor August 2011 to July 2017

Visiting Assistant Professor August 2010 to July 2011

EDUCATION

Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Teaching, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 2010

Dissertation : Home away from home: Paradoxes of nostalgia in the lives of first generation immigrant girls

Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 1996

Master of Education (Concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language)

Langston University, Langston, OK 1994

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan 1990

AWARDS

Faculty Award for Community-Based Engagement, Gettysburg College, Dec

2012.

Finalist, Dissertation Award, Division B, American Educational Research Association, April 2011.

Exemplary Diversity Scholar, University of Michigan, NCID, Summer 2008

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

Conference Travel Grant,, Lesley University, 2024-2025
Russell Fellowship, Lesley University, Graduate School of Education 2022-2023
Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Grants December 2017
Semi-Finalist, Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, Spring 2015
CPC/Mellon Blended Learning Course Development Grant, Central Pennsylvania Consortium, August 2014
Gettysburg College Research and Professional Development Grants, May 2012
Office’s Research Fellowship, Office of Policy and Research, Teachers College, Spring 2008
Spenser Research Training Grant for dissertation, Teachers College, Spring 2007
Presentation Funding for International Doctoral Students, Teachers College, Spring 2007

VISITING PROFESSORSHIP

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Honorary Fellow, February 2016 to June 2016
Fukushima University, Department of Human Development and Culture, Visiting Scholar, September 2015 to February 2016

WORKSHOPS

Reconceptualization of Curriculum Studies: Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Healing from Collective Trauma, American Educational Research Association, Division B. Pre-Conference Workshop, Denver, CO. April 22nd, 2025
Utilizing Art Therapy to Explore Black & Asian Solidarity in K-12 Classrooms,” Black & Asian Solidarity Initiative, Funded by Spencer Foundation, online, November 7th, 2024
“Incorporating Expressive Arts Therapy in Exploring Racial Identities with Youth,” Cambridge Youth Program, Cambridge, MA June, 27th, 2023

INVITED LECTURES

Risk Society and Education in Post-Disaster Fukushima, Lesley University, Winter Weekend., January, 2022.
“Using electronic portfolio to promote critical reflection in pre-service program,” Waseda University, Graduate School of Education, Tokyo, Japan. August 12, 2019
“Ethnographic research and education in post-disaster Fukushima,” TMI 40: Honoring the community and legacy of the accident at Three Mile Island, Penn State Harrisburg, PA, March 27, 2019

PUBLICATIONS

Miyazawa, K. (Under Review) Why does this still feel disempowering?: Reinterpreting Pedagogies of Empowerment Using Collective Trauma as a Lens. Harvard Educational Review.

Miyazawa, K. (2022). Beikoku akademia ni okeru kyoiku kenkyu no hensen 1800 kohan kara konnnichi made [Trajectory of education research in the U.S. higher education: from the late 1800s to today]. America Kyoiku Kenkyu [Research on American Education], 33(02), 88–109.

Miyazawa, K (2022). Risk Society and Education in Fukushima. Routledge.

Miyazawa, K. (2018). Becoming an insider and outsider in post-disaster Fukushima. Harvard Educational Review, 88(3), 334–354.

Miyazawa, K. (2017). Becoming co-witnesses to the Fukushima disaster in an elementary literacy classroom. Language Arts, Trauma, Loss, and Literacies. 94(5), 291-301.

Miyazawa, K. (2017). The abstinence-only until marriage program and girl (dis) empowerment. Girlhood Studies, 10 (1), 4-21.

Miyazawa, K. (2014). Creating a new space and a new alliance in the global age: A dialogue between Freirian pedagogy and Seikatsu Tsuzurikata. In P. O. R. Broke (Ed.), Interrogating Critical Pedagogy: The voices of Educators of Color in the movement. (pp.187-204). New York: Routledge.

Miyazawa, K. (2016). In the third moment in curriculum studies: A dialogue between Seikatsu Tsuzurikata and Critical Pedagogy. In J. M. Paraskeva (Ed.), The curriculum: whose internationalization? (pp. 153– 168). New York: Peter Lang.

Miyazawa, K. (2016). Hyoka to akushon no hazamade: Penshirubania deno jissen houkoku to nihon no kyoshi he no teigen [ In between standard evaluation and action: A report from a literacy class in Pennsylvania and implications for Japanese teachers], Journal of Japanese Society of Education for Individual Development. 7, 2-20.

Talbot, B & Miyazawa, K (2013). Accommodating accommodations: How a small liberal-arts college certification program redefines the new ELL state mandates. PEMA, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association Pennsylvania News Letter. 38-41.

Miyazawa, K (2013). Dreaming and surviving in heterotopia: First generation immigrant girls’ pursuit of American dream. Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education. Spring, 63-76.

Miyazawa, K. (2012). Kokkyo wo koete omoi wo tsutaeru: Seikatsu tsuzurikata kyoiku to mekishiko kei imin no kodomotachi [Sending a message across the border: Life experience writing and children of Mexican immigrants]. Composition and Education, 797, 22-31.

Miyazawa, K. (2012). The more she has to return home, the more distant she gets from home: A paradox of nostalgia in a Fulani immigrant girls’ life. Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 28 (1), 59-73.

Miyazawa, K. (2011). Nostalgia. In N. Lesko & S. Talburt (Eds.), Keywords in youth studies: tracing affects, movements, and knowledge (pp. 304-309). New York: Routledge.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Miyazawa, K. (2024, March). Aligning Education & Development Towards True Sustainability Using Tsurumi's Vision of Japanese Animism. Comparative International Education Society Conference, Miami, FL.

Miyazawa, K. (2022, October). Changes in Education Research & Training in the U.S. Higher Education: from the 1800s to Today, Japan Association of American Educational Studies, Nagoya, Japan (online).

Miyazawa, K. (2018, July). Doing Ethnography At Home: A Reflection from Post-Disaster Fukushima. Paper presented at the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Lancaster, UK.

Miyazawa, K. (2018, April). Becoming Insider and Outsider in Post-Disaster Fukushima. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association. Division B, New York.

Matsushita, Y., Miyazawa, K. & Suzuki, K. (2017, January). Discussing Controversial and Traumatic Topics in a Teacher Education Course through Japanese Karuta. Paper presented at the Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education. Honolulu, HI.

Miyazawa, K. & Lim, S. (2016, April). In Search of Public Space: Neoliberal Education Reform in the Age of Globalization in Singapore and Japan. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of American Educational Research Association. Division B, Washington ,DC.

Miyazawa, K. & Asher, N. (2013, April). In response to PISA: Standardized Testing and Narrowing of Curriculum in the Global Discourse of Education, Paper presented at American Association for Advancement of Curriculum Studies, San Francisco, California.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Higher Ed

Doctor's Level

Issues in Research Spring 2023, Summer 2024

Qualitative Research Methods I & II Fall 2022 -Spring 2025

Nature of Inquiry: Below the Surface of Research Summer 2022-Summer 2024

Lesley University

Master’s Level

Critical Perspectives in Secondary Education Fall 2008

Teachers College, Columbia University

Immigration and Curriculum Spring 2008

Teachers College, Columbia University

Action Research Fall 2005

Teachers College, Columbia University (Assistant)

Undergraduate Level (Pre-Service Program)

Student Teaching Seminar Fall 2021

Teaching Culturally Linguistically Diverse Students Spring 2011-Spring 2022 \

Social Foundations of Education Spring 2011- Spring 2022

Educational Psychology Fall 2010- Fall 2012

Globalization, Citizenship, and Education Fall 2012 - 2019

Gettysburg College

Educational Psychology Fall 2008- Spring 2010

Montclair State University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: K-12

Japanese, ESL, and Math

Japanese Children’s Society 2005- 2007

English as a Foreign Language 1997 – 2003

Tokyo International High School

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Adult

Adult English as a Second Language 2011-2012

Casa De La Cultura

Adult English as a Foreign Language 1996-1998

Lado International College, Tokyo

SERVICE TO PROFESSONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Reviewer

Girlhood Studies 2022

Routledge Publishing 2022, 2024, 2025

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing 2009 -2015

Science & Education 2024

American Educational Research Association Division B 2009, 2011, 2015, 2017

Committee

Association of American Advancement for Curriculum Studies

International Task Force 2013-2019

Conference Session Chair

American Educational Research Association, Research on the

Division B. Curriculum Studies 2018, 2025

American Educational Research Association, Research on the

Education of Asian and Pacific Americans Special Interest Group 2016

Association of American Advancement for Curriculum Studies 2015

SERVICE TO UNIVERSITY

Lesley University

Faculty Development Committee 2023 to Present

June Fox Lecture Series Committee 2022 to Present

Gettysburg College

Faculty Council 2021-2022

Search Committee Chair, Inclusion Partner 2019

Assessment Coordinator (Education Department) 2018- 2021

Student Life Committee 2016- 2019

Interdisciplinary Studies Committee 2015- 2019

Peace and Justice Studies Committee 2017-2019

Advisor: Asian Student Alliances 2014-2015, 2016- 2019

Center for Global Education Committee 2012-2015

SERVICE TO COMMUNITY

Professional Development, Cambridge Youth Programs Summer 2023

Sasi Muskui Runa, Vice President 2020-2023

Food Project, Lynn MA, Volunteer Fall 2022 -2023

Family Roots : An Art Workshop, Gettysburg, PA Spring 2015

Vida Charter School Academic Excellence Committee 2013-2015

La Retratos, a photovoice project, Gettysburg, PA Fall 2012

MEMBERSHIP

Comparative International Education Society 2015-Present

American Educational Research Association 2007-Present

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Oklahoma State Teaching License, August 1994, Secondary School, Sociology

LANGUAGE

English (Native -Level Fluency)

Japanese (Native-Level Fluency)

Spanish (Advanced Beginning)

Citizenship Status

U.S. Citizen