Date: Thursday November 21, 2024

Time: 12:00PM – 1:30PM

Location: WDR 3002 / Zoom: 929 3795 1188

Speakers: Dr. Min Yu, Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at Wayne State University

Abstract

This talk discusses the role of community-based efforts and the impacts on urban migrant communities and the education of migrant children. It focuses on examining how historical context, social structures, and educational policies shape local practices and provides insight into the impact of these factors on migrant families and their children’s education across time and space. Using ethnographic research, combined with methods such as policy analysis and intersectionality analysis, this talk also explores the possibility of a systematic longitudinal qualitative study to critically analyze how social structures influence collective and individual experiences and to further understand the ways in which historically-underserved communities mobilize for educational equity.

Bio

Min Yu, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Comparative and International Education at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States. Her research explores the relationships between home, school, and community with attention to students’ and teachers’ experiences. Her work appears in top-tier interdisciplinary journals, such as Review of Research in Education, Comparative Education Review, Comparative Education, China Quarterly, Chinese Sociological Review, Sociological Inquiry, Educational Studies, Educational Philosophy and Theory, Teaching and Teacher Education, and so on. She has received awards from the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), as well as grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.