Faculty Profiles

Chan, Y.-W., Tseng, Y.-C., & Li, Y. (n.d.). Trends of nature education research in China: A scholarly review. Integrative Conservation.

Chan, Y.-W., & Forsythe, M. E. (2025). Making sense of social sustainability: How teacher candidates analyze local sustainability challenges. Journal of Environmental Education.

Chan, Y.-W. (2024). Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts. Environmental Education Research. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2405892

Forsythe, M. E., & Chan, Y.-W. (2024). Building from scientific argumentation to democratic deliberation: An interdisciplinary approach to decision-making about  socioscientific issues. Journal of College Science Teaching, 53.

Chan, Y.-W., & Forsythe, M. E. (2024). Integrating scientific argumentation and democratic deliberation in addressing environmental issues. Social Education, 88(5), 301–308.

Chan, Y.-W. (2024). Social sustainability and its implications on teaching and learning in social studies. In The Theory-Story Reader for Social Studies (pp. 194–201). Teachers College Press.

Chan, Y.-W. (2024). Taiwanese youth’s imagination of good citizens through environmental policy controversy deliberations. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/17461979241281704

Chan, Y.-W. (2023). Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study. Environmental Education Research, 29(1), 121–147. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2022.2093334

Chan, Y.-W. (2023). How to confront climate denial: Literacy, social studies, and climate change. Teachers College Record.

Chan, Y.-W. (2023). Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability. Environmental Education Research, 30(10), 1668–1683. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2286938

Chan, Y.-W. (2022). Reconceptualizing global citizenship education: Revisiting Asia as methods. Theory and Research in Social Education. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2021.2004873

Chan, Y.-W., & Alviar-Martin, T. (2022). Linking the global to local sustainability challenges: Deliberating the permian highway pipeline controversy in Texas. Social Studies Journal, 42(1), 41–55.

Chan, Y.-W., Chan, H.-Y., Chang, Y.-I., Yao, H.-C., Lin, T.-A., Chen, S.-W., … Juan, C.-C. (2022). Outcomes of online learning in physiology course amid COVID-19 in Taiwan: the role of mental health and academic motivation. Journal of Medical Education, 26(2), 84–99.

Chan, Y.-W., & Johnson, M. W. (2022). Exploration of rural Taiwanese youth’s self-agency in environmental policy controversy deliberations. Pedagogies: An International Journal, 18(4), 596–613. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/1554480X.2022.2077345

Chan, Y.-W., & Cheng, Y.-F. (2021). Rethinking the American value of freedom in Post-COVID-19 social studies curriculum: an altruism perspective. In Post-pandemic social studies: How COVID-19 has changed the world and how we teach (pp. 200–209). Teachers College Press.

Forsythe, M. E., & Chan, Y.-W. (2021). Justice-centered Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Environmental Education, 52(5), 347–757. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2021.1981208

Chan, Y.-W., & Forsythe, M. E. (2020). Mapping stakeholders: Tools to scaffold students in deliberating about environmental controversies. Science Scope, 44(1), 50–57.

Chen, W.-L., & Chan, Y.-W. (2020). Can higher education increase students’ moral reasoning? The role of student engagement in the U.S. Journal of Moral Education, 51(2), 169–185. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2020.1806045

Chan, Y.-W., Mathews, N. E., & Li, F. (2018). Environmental education in nature reserve areas in southwestern China: What do we learn from Caohai? Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 17(2), 174–185. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533015x.2017.1388198

Hu, Y. B., Chan, Y.-W., Liu, J., Wu, X. H., Li, F. S., & Hong, S. (2014). Environmental education practice at schools around Caohai Nature Reserve: Thoughts from Caohai Disney Education Project. Zoological Research, 35(S1), 248–252. https://doi.org/10.11813/j.issn.2095-8137.2014.s1.0248

Hu, Y., Li, F., & Chan, Y.-W. (Eds.). (2013). Weining Caohai my home. Caohai Environmental Education Project, China. International Crane Foundation, USA.

Chan, Y.-W. (2010). An investigation of American integrative ethical education. Journal of Comparative Education, 68, 53–88.

Chan, Y.-W. (2005). The character education partnership and its implication on character and moral education of junior and elementary schools in Taiwan. Secondary Education, 56(5), 164–175.