Visiting Scholars

Hyeonsook Shin

An associate professor at Chonnam National University in Gwangju, South Korea, Hyeonsook Shin devoted her six-month sabbatical (March-August 2010) to an intensive review of SEL professional literature and programs, with a focus on how SEL can be relevant and helpful for Korean students. Her research topic was "Necessity and sustainability of social and emotional learning in societies pursuing academic excellence." As part of her research, she compared work on SEL standards, programming, and assessment in both Illinois and Singapore. Her goal: to develop ways to adapt and infuse SEL concepts for the Korean educational system, particularly for students at risk of school failure.

For more information about the Chonnam National University Education Department go to the following link and click on “Academics”:

http://web.chonnam.ac.kr/en/

Jessie Ee

Research Group visiting scholar Jessie Ee is an Associate Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. A primary focus of her work in Singapore is teacher education, particularly as a way of supporting her country’s expanding SEL initiatives. She spent the month of June 2010 at the UIC SEL Research Group studying programs on SEL and resilience, developing networks and partnerships with U.S. educators interested in SEL, planning teacher education courses on SEL, and exploring future collaborative research projects. Her research in Singapore attempts to address teachers’ infusion of SEL into academic subjects at both the primary and secondary levels. She feels that SEL is needed for the 21st century and that if everyone “walks the talk” after learning SEL, the world will be a better place to live in.

Selected publications:

Ee, J. & Chang, A. (2009). Modeling of SEL competencies. In Ee, J. (Ed), Empowering metacognition through SEL: lessons for the classroom (chapter 2, 25-34). Singapore: Cengage Learning Pte Ltd.

Ee, J. & Tan, O. S. (2009). Facilitating problem-solving processes for adaptors and innovators. In Tan, O.S. (ed.), Problem-based learning and creativity (Chapter 3, 39-50). Singapore: Cengage Learning Pte Ltd..

For more information see:

http://www.ps.nie.edu.sg/people_more_info_JE.html

Kim Schonert-Reichl
Kim Schonert-Reichl is a Chicago native who lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. She has played a central role in British Columbia’s development of SEL programs, curricula, and teacher education initiatives, including a recently launched one-year pre-service program on SEL. Having served as a Research Group visiting scholar three times in the past decade, she considers herself a critical link between CASEL, the Research Group, and British Columbia’s SEL programming. Her main goal as a visiting scholar, she says, is to have an opportunity to “spend time with a group of people who are the international leaders in the SEL field, thinking about how to bring research into practice with a scientific basis.”
Selected publications:

Schonert-Reichl, K.A., Lawlor, M.S., Oberle, E., & Thomson, K. (2009) Identifying indicators and tools for measuring social and emotional healthy living: Children ages 5-12 years. Final report to the Mental Health Promotion Unit, Public Health Agency of Canada. Vancouver: BC.

Oberle, E., Schonert-Reichl, K.A., & Thomson, K.C. (2009) Understanding the link between social and emotional well-being and peer relations in early adolescence: Gender-specific predictors of peer acceptance. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Doi: 10.1007/s10964-009-9486-9

For more information see:

http://educ.ubc.ca/newsandinfo/educating-heart