Grace Kang

Assistant Professor

Teaching and Learning

Office

Degarmo Hall - DEG 311

Office Phone

(309) 438-5425office
phone

gykang@ilstu.eduemail

About
Research

Biography

Dr. Kang has taught at the K-6 grade levels and worked as a reading specialist and enrichment teacher. She is an assistant professor of elementary literacy and teaches various literacy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and her research explores culturally sustaining pedagogies, teacher identity, critical literacies, and social justice oriented teacher education specifically in writing.

Current Courses

224.002Developing Readers Through Writing

205.003Elementary Education Clinical I

264.001Language Arts Instruction Strategies

Teaching Interests & Areas

Reading and writing workshops, Digital Literacies, Teachers as Writers, Multicultural Education

Research Interests & Areas

Teacher Education, Critical Literacies, Negotiation of Curriculum, Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Teachers as Writers, Teacher Identity, Professional Development in Writing

Journal Article

Kang, G. Y., & Kline, S. (2020). Critical literacy as a tool for social change: Negotiating tensions in a pre-service teacher education writing course. Journal of Language and Literacy Education.

Kang, G. I Need Collaboration Too!. Teacher Education Yearbook XXVI Building upon Inspirations and Aspirations with Hope, Courage, and Strength: Teacher Educators' Commitment to Today's Teachers and Tomorrow's Leaders 2 (2018): 185.

Kang, G. Playing With Digital Tools With Explicit Scaffolding. The Reading Teacher 71.6 (2018): 735--741.

McCarthey, S., & Kang, G. Understanding influences on writing instruction: cases of two kindergarten teachers. Early Child Development and Care 187.3-4 (2017): 398--417.

Kang, G. Advocacy for autonomy: Complicating the use of scripted curriculum in unscripted spaces. Language Arts Journal of Michigan 32.1 (2016): 10.

Other

Kang, G. The power of teachers: exploring identity, agency, and collaboration in the context of literacy. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2015)