Academic History

Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., 1993
M.A., Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 1983
B.A., Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, 1979                                                                                  

Areas of Interest

Critical pedagogy
Critical theories of education
Curriculum theories

Awards and Honors

• 2001-2002 Maxi Grant, University of St. Thomas, Project title: School and Poverty
• 1998-1999 Small Grants, the Northeast Asia of the Association for Asian Studies
• 1998-1999 Faculty Development Grant, University of St. Thomas
• 1997-1999 Grant, Teachers’ Organizations, the State and Society in the Pacific Rim, Value Conflicts and Collaborative Strategies in Educational Reforms, funded by Soka University of America at Harvard University, and the Pacific Rim Research Program, at the University of California, Los Angeles. 
• 1994-1995 Grant, Urban Teacher Opportunity Corps, funded by the New York State Education Department and the State University of New York College of Oswego. 

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Cho, S. (2006). Third International Conference on Education, Labor and Emancipation, El Paso, Texas, and Chihuahua, Mexico
• Cho, S. (2005). Historicizing the Post-al Theories. American Educational Studies Association (AESA), Charlottesville, Virginia.
• Cho, S. (2005). Em torno da Linguagem do Possivel: Revisiando a Pedagogia Critica. In J. Paraskeva, C. Rossatto, & R. Allen (Eds.). Reinventar a Pedagogia Critica. Lisboa, Portugal: Edições Pedago, Lda. 
• Cho, S. (2005). Globalism and Nationalism: Teachers’ Responses to education reform in South Korea. Annual Conference of Comparative and International    Education Studies, Stanford University, Calif.
• Cho, S. (2004). On Experience and Resistance: Revisiting Critical Pedagogy. 2nd Conference of Education, Labor and Emancipation, El Paso, Texas, and Juárez, México.
• Cho, S. (2004). Education Reform in South Korea: Teachers’ Voices. Annual Conference of AERA (American Educational Research Association), San Diego.
• Cho, S. (2003). Next Target: North Korea? Mayday Books, Minneapolis.
• Cho, S. (2003). The Educational Reform in South Korea: Teachers’ Voices. 27th Annual Conference of Pacific Circle Consortium, Minneapolis.
• Cho, S. (2003). NAFTA and Discourses. Annual Conference of Socialist Scholars, New York.
• Cho, S. (2002). Critiques of Modernism and Critical Education. Invited Lecture Series, Graduate School of Education, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea.
• Cho, S. (2001). The Education Reform Policies in South Korea: Teachers and Union. World Council of Comparative Education Societies, Chungju, Korea.
• Lee, Y. & Cho, S. (2000). Gender Differences in Children’s Schooling during the Industrialization Period: Korea from 1965 to 1994. Development and Society, 29(1).
• Cho, S. (2000). Los Docentes de Corea, los Sindicatos Docentes, y el Estado: En el contexto de la Reforma Educativa Neo-Liberal (Korean Teachers, Teachers Unions, and the State: In the context of Neo-Liberal Educational Reform). CTERA Seminario Internacional, Confederacion de Trabajadores de la Educacion de la Republica Argentina, Seminar Report (in Spanish).
• Cho, S. (2000). Korean Teachers, Teachers Unions, and the State: In the context of Neo-Liberal Educational Reform. International Seminar on Teachers’ Union and State’s Policy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Cho, S. (1999). Contradictions and Tensions in Teaching Critical Pedagogy. Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed Annual Conference, New York.
• Cho, S. (1999), Educational Reform and the Roles of Teachers' Union. The Korean Teachers' Union Seminar for Celebration of its Legalization, Seoul, Korea (in Korean).
• Cho, S. (1999). Characteristics of Korean Educational Reform and the Roles of Teachers’ Union: Interview Analysis. International Research Seminar, Korean Education Research Institute (in English and Korean).
• Popkewitz, Cho, S., & Myrdal S. (1991). Teach For America Summer Institute-1990 Evaluation Report. Teach-For-America Report.
• Cho, S., Middleton, J. & Popkewitz, T. (1991). Pre-service Teachers' Backgrounds, Beliefs and Dispositions. Teach-For-America Project Report.

Professional Memberships

• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• Comparative and International Education Society 
• Education, Labor and Emancipation
• World Congress of Comparative Education Societies