Taeyeon Kim Assistant Professor
Ph.D., K-12 Educational Administration, Michigan State University, 2020
M.A., Educational Administration, Seoul National University, 2014
M.Ed., Elementary Education Administration, Daegu National University of Education, 2011
B.A., Elementary Education, Daegu National University of Education, 2008
Dr. Kim joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2020 as an assistant professor. Her scholarship explores the intersections of leadership and policy, with particular focus on how leaders can challenge unjust systems and humanize practices to empower marginalized students and communities. Specifically, her research focuses on: (1) reimagining policy and leadership through the voices of equity leaders, (2) critically analyzing policies and systems by centering racialized communities, and (3) promoting cross-cultural dialogue informed by decolonial and transnational perspectives. Her work has been published in the Harvard Educational Review, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Educational Administration, AERA Open, Teaching and Teacher Education, Comparative Education Review, and others. Dr. Kim serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. Prior to higher education, Dr. Kim spent more than seven years in the K-12 education serving as an elementary school teacher and professional development consultant for teachers and principals in South Korea.
Areas of Expertise
- Humanizing leadership and policy practice
- Education policy and accountability
- Equity and social justice leadership
- Critical policy analysis
- Culturally and linguistically diverse communities
- Decolonial and transnational perspectives
- Qualitatives research methods
Dr. Kim teaches courses in P-12 educational leadership and qualitative research methods for doctoral students. Dr. Kim advises students in the Ed.D. and Ph.D. programs with a focus on P-12 educational leadership.
You can download her papers from the UNL Digital Commons. († Authorship equally shared)
- Kim, T. (2023). The human side of accountability: Dilemmas of reaching all learners. Harvard Educational Review.
- Kim, T. Yang, M., Oh, Y. (2023). Leading from equity: Changing and organizing for deeper learning. Journal of Educational Administration.
- Kim, T., Jang, S. B., Jung, J. K., Son, M., & Lee, S. Y. † (2023). Negotiating Asian American identities: Collaborative self-study of Korean immigrant scholars’ reading group on AsianCrit. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.
- Gutiérrez, L. A., Kim, T., Kuttner, P. J., Partola, S., Niang, A., Yanagui, A., López, G. R., Hernandez, L., & Mayer-Glenn, J (2022). Community-centered school leadership: Radical care and aperturas during COVID-19. AERA Open 8(1), 1-14.
- Wright, J., & Kim, T. (2023). Falling into gap discourses: The coloniality of achievement gap discourses and their responses. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education.
- Yang, M., Oh, Y., Lim, S., & Kim, T. † (2023) Teaching with collective resilience during COVID-19: Korean teachers and collaborative professionalism. Teaching and Teacher Education.
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Kim, T. (2023). What is the meaning of educational leadership in a time of policy engineering? International Journal of Leadership in Education, 23(1), 37-53.
*Received the International Journal of Leadership in Education Emerging Scholar Manuscript Competition Award (2020) - Kim, T. (2022). Reimagining accountability through educational leadership: Applying the metaphors of “agora” and “bazaar.” Educational Management Administration and Leadership.
- Kim, T., & Weiner, J. (2022). Negotiating incomplete autonomy: Portraits from three school principals. Education Administration Quarterly, 58(3),487-521.
- Kim, T., & Mauldin, C. (2022). Troubling heroic discourses in social justice leadership. Frontiers in Education.
- Kim, T., Lim, S., Yang, M., & Park, S. J. (2021). Making sense of schooling during COVID-19: Crisis as opportunity in Korean schools. Comparative Education Review, 65(4), 617-639.*
*Received the 2022 CIES East Asia SIG Best Paper Award & 2022 KAERA Outstanding Research Paper Award.
Taeyeon Kim currently works on several research projects. Her ongoing project sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies research grant explores life history of Korean migrant civic leaders in the United States. With the Layman grant, she also explores how state, district, and school leaders make meaning of in the context of accountability in Nebraska. As part of developing her scholarship of teaching, Kim analyzes emotional discomfort in leadership learning about equity and social justice, which was supported by the Center for Transformative Teaching at UNL.
Courses Taught
- EDAD 852: School Culture and Student Behavior
- EDAD 983: Qualitative Methods for Educational Administration Research
- EDAD 984N: Narrative Inquiry (Advanced Qualitative Methods Elective)
- EDAD 930: Comparative International Education