Education

My friend and professor Bil Johnson says that “the Education Department is the best kept secret at Brown,” and it certainly felt like it when I was there. In fact, Bil was the first of a string of great professors that kept me in the education department. For the years I was an education major, I wandered from pedagogical theory to social history, and from educational philosophy to human development.

Before I left, I had the chance to participate in two research projects in human development (aka developmental psychology):

1) I was a research assistant for Professor Jin Li’s multi-year comparative study of the learning habits of first generation Chinese-American children.

2) I conducted my own study of cultural conflicts experienced by Asian Americans growing up in the United States.

I also signed up to illustrate Bil’s next book that aims to bring educational research to the masses. Unfortunately, neither of us have time to devote to it at the moment. But we are both plenty excited.