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Yuenjung Joo

Yuenjung Joo, director of CCEP ay UNCG

Academic Professional Assistant Professor, Director of Child Care Education Program

Human Development and Family Studies

Email Address: y_joo3@uncg.edu

Bio

Dr. Yuenjung Joo (Jay) is an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education position in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and a Director of Child Care Education Program. Her Scholarly agenda is to bridge the gap between research-based knowledge and educational practices to support early childhood professionals to improve their interaction quality, enhance children’s development and learning opportunities, and ameliorate inequity in early childhood education. Specifically, her research interests focus on (1) improving early childhood classroom quality, especially teacher-child interaction in child-led activity settings, to enhance children’s learning experiences, (2) early childhood teacher beliefs about children’s learning, and (3) child social-emotional learning intervention.

Education

  • M.Ed. Sookmyung Women’s University
  • Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Selected Publications

  • Joo, Y., & Schachter, R. E. (2025). Understanding how teachers’ beliefs about learning are aligned across curriculum, planning, and enactment. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10901027.2024.2443845
  • Rudasill, K.M., Reichenberg, R. E., Eum, J., Barrett, J., Wilson, E., Joo, Y., & Sealy, M.A. (2024). The effect of INSIGHTS on developmental trajectories of children’s temperamental regulation. Early Childhood Education Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-024-01784-9
  • Hong, S.-Y., Hamel, E., Joo, Y., & Burton, A. (2022). Enhancing preschool teachers’ reflective thinking on science teaching and learning using video reflections. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10901027.2022.2149435
  • Wilson, E., Eum, J., Joo, Y., Barrett, J.S., Sealy, M.A., Nugent, G.C. (2022). Rural parents’ experiences of stress and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and school closure. The Online Journal for Rural Research and Policy. https://doi.org/10.4148/1936-0487.1113
  • Hamel, E., Joo, Y., Hong, S.-Y., & Burton, A. (2020). Teachers’ questioning practices in early childhood science activities. Early Childhood Education Journal. 49(3), 375-384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-020-01075-z
  • Rudasill, K. M., Reichenberg, R. E., Eum, J., Barrett, J., Joo, Y., Wilson, E., & Sealy, M. (2020) Promoting higher quality teacher-child relationships: The INSIGHTS intervention in rural schools. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 17(24), 9371. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249371