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Dr. Sunmin Lee

  • Assistant Professor - Curriculum And Instruction
Portrait of Dr. Sunmin Lee

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Curriculum and Instruction

University of Texas at Austin, 2022

Master's Degree

MA in Curriculum and Instruction

University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Early Childhood Education

Sungshin Womens University, 2010

  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), Park, Soyoung (Co-Principal), Lee, Sunmin (Co-Principal), McManus, Molly E. (Co-Principal), Odim, Nnenna (Co-Principal), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Co-Principal). Determining Contextual Support for Individual and Collective Agency in PreK-3rd Classrooms serving Young Children from BIPOC Communities, Brady Education Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $300000. (Funded: September 2022 - August 2025). Grant.
  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), McManus, Molly E. (Supporting), Park, Soyoung (Supporting), Colegrove, Kiyomi S.S. (Supporting), Lee, Sunmin (Supporting), Odim, Nnenna (Supporting), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Supporting), Payne, Katherina A. (Supporting), Jones, Natacha (Supporting). Dynamic Innovation For Young Children (DIFYC) Partnership, San Antonio ISD, San Antonio ISD, $750000. (Funded: August 2018 - August 2020). Grant.
  • Adair, Jennifer K. (Principal), Payne, Katherina A. (Supporting), Colegrove, Kiyomi S.S. (Supporting), Lee, Sunmin (Supporting), McManus, Molly E. (Supporting), Sachdeva, Shubhi (Supporting), Falkner, Anna (Supporting). Civic Action and Young Children Study, Spencer Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $350000. (Funded: August 2015 - August 2016). Grant.
  • Lee, S. (n.d.). Centering Mothers’ Perspectives and Values on Early Childhood Inclusion Through DisCrit Classroom Ecology. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
  • Lee, S. (2026). Striving for Inclusive Classrooms: Supporting Non- or Minimally Speaking Children with Disabilities in Early Childhood Classrooms. Early Years, 47(1), 28–32.
  • Payne, K. A., Lee, S., & McManus, M. E. (n.d.). Young Children’s Civicness: A Close Look at Membership and Community. Democracy and Education.
  • Lee, S. (2025). Mothers of children with disabilities as agents of change: Questioning the notion of verbalness. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood.
  • Payne, K. A., Adair, J. K., Lee, S., McManus, M., Falkner, A., Sachdeva, S., & Colegrove, K. (2025). Child-focused civics: Seeing civic action in young children’s everyday interactions. Theory & Research in Social Education, 1–32.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award within the Presidential Awards Program, College of Education, Texas State University. 2026
  1. Reviewer / Referee

    Exceptional Children

  2. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Early Intervention

  3. Other

    Young Children

  4. Reviewer / Referee

    American Educational Research Association: SIG Disability Studies in Education

  5. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education

  6. Reviewer / Referee

    Journal of Childhood Studies

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