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Jeong-hee Kim

Seoul National University · Social Sciences

About the Lab

Professor Jeong-hee Kim's research lab focuses on interdisciplinary narrative inquiry in education, particularly exploring issues of educational inequality, social justice, and the lived experiences of marginalized students through critical and phenomenological lenses. The lab integrates qualitative and arts-based research methods, including narrative inquiry and Bakhtinian concepts like polyphony and chronotope, to amplify student voices and challenge dominant educational discourses. It also engages with biomedical research on aging and sarcopenia, examining metabolic and inflammatory markers in older adults to assess cardiovascular and metabolic risks.

narrative inquiryeducational inequalitysarcopeniacritical theoryqualitative research

Research Overview

Papers
294
Total Citations
1,974
Papers (5y)
53
Primary Field
Social Sciences

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
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Citations per year (5y)
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Selected Papers

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book|688 citations·2016
Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Research
Jeong‐Hee Kim

1. Locating Narrative Inquiry in the Interdisciplinary Context Scientific Research and Qualitative Research in Tandem Narrative Inquiry Narrative Inquiry in Different Disciplines Some Cautionary Tales About Narrative Inquiry Narrative Inquiry as the Synergy of Interdisciplinarity Learning to be a Storyteller in the Interdisciplinary Context Conclusion: A Falling Apple 2. Philosophical/Theoretical Underpinnings of Narrative Inquiry The Role of Theory Philosophical/Theoretical/Interpretive Paradig

Speech and HearingHealth Professions
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Article|165 citations·2008
Rethinking Alternative Education to Break the Cycle of Educational Inequality and Inequity
Jeong‐Hee Kim, Kay Ann Taylor
SJR Q2The Journal of Educational ResearchOA

The growing number of alternative schools seems to correlate with the mounting population of disenfranchised students. The higher the number of disenfranchised students, the more alternative schools are being built. This correlation may be caused by social, economic, and political issues that bring about pervasive social injustice, which reinforces the cycle of educational inequality. In this qualitative study, the authors examined 1 alternative high school from a critical perspective to determi

EducationSocial Sciences
3
Article|59 citations·2014
Supracolloidal polymer chains of diblock copolymer micelles
Jeong‐Hee Kim, Won Jong Kwon, Byeong‐Hyeok Sohn
SJR Q1Chemical Communications

Directional attraction with lateral repulsion between colloidal nanoparticles can create their supracolloidal chains. Here, we demonstrate supracolloidal polymers of diblock copolymer micelles, which were polymerized by adjusting the polarity of the solvent. We also synthesized supracolloidal random and block copolymer chains.

Organic ChemistryChemistry
4
Article|51 citations·2010
Narrative inquiry into (re)imagining alternative schools: a case study of Kevin Gonzales
Jeong‐Hee Kim
SJR Q1International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

Although there are many alternative schools that strive for the successful education of their students, negative images of alternative schools persist. While some alternative schools are viewed as ‘idealistic havens’, many are viewed as ‘dumping grounds’ or ‘juvenile detention centers’. Employing narrative inquiry, this article interrogates how a student, Kevin Gonzales, experiences his alternative education and raises questions about the role of alternative schools. Kevin Gonzales’s story is pr

EducationSocial Sciences
5
Article|43 citations·2006
For whom the school bell tolls: conflicting voices inside an alternative high school.
Jeong‐Hee Kim
K-State Research Exchange (Kansas State University)OA

This article is a study of conflicting voices inside an alternative high school in Arizona. Voices of alternative schools are, quite often, not included in the discourse of curriculum reform even though the number of alternative schools is growing every year. Bakhtinian novelness of polyphony, chronotope, and carnival are incorporated into an arts-based,storied form of representation to provoke empathic understanding among readers. Multiple voices (polyphony) of the school are juxtaposed within

EducationSocial Sciences
6
Article|34 citations·2010
노인 인구에서 근감소증과 심혈관계 대사질환 위험인자와의 연관성 조사
김정희, 황보율, 홍은실, 온정헌, 김치헌, 김혜원, 안화영, 윤지완, 강선미, 박영주, 장학철, 임수
http://kmbase.medric.or.kr/Main.aspx?d=KMBASE&m=VIEW&i=0828520100140030121

연구배경: 우리나라에서 인구의 고령화 현상이 점차 심각해짐에 따라 신체장애를 동반하지 않은 활동적인 노인 혹은건강한 노화에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 방법: 본 연구는 성남시 한 지역 65세 이상의 한국인 고령코호트를 대상으로 한 연구에서 근감소증의 지표 중에서이중 방사선 X-선 흡수법을 이용하여 측정한 사지 골격근량을 키의 제곱(ASM/Ht2) 또는 체중으로(ASM/Wt) 나눈 지표를 이용하여 각각 근감소증군과 정상군을 나누었다. 두 군사이의 RBP4, adiponecetin, hsCRP, 혈청 지질, 인슐린 저항성을 측정하여 비교하였다. 결과: ASM/Wt로 정의한 근감소증군에서만 정상군보다높은 RBP4, 낮은 adiponectin 수치를 보였으며 인슐린 저항성, 총 콜레스테롤, 중성지반, 저밀도 지질단백질 콜레스테롤 모두 높게 측정되었다. 결론: 근감소증 지표로 ASM/Ht2보다 ASM/Wt로 정의하였을 때 근감소증군에서 정상군보다 심혈관계 대사 질환에대한 위험이 더 높다는

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Article|33 citations·2013
Sarcopenia and Obesity: Gender-Different Relationship with Functional Limitation in Older Persons
김정희, 최성희, 임수, 윤지원, 강선미, 김기웅, 임재영, Nam H. Cho, 장학철
Journal of Korean Medical Science

Age-related body composition changes such as sarcopenia and obesity affect functional decline in the elderly. We investigated the relationship between body composition parameters and functional limitation in older Korean adults. We enrolled 242 men and 231women aged ≥ 65 yr from the Korean elderly cohort. We used appendicular skeletal muscle mass (ASM) divided by height2 (ASM/Ht2) and ASM divided by weight (ASM/Wt). The isokinetic strength of knee extensor muscles were measured using an isokinet

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Article|31 citations·2008
A romance with narrative inquiry: Toward an act of narrative theorizing
Jeong‐Hee Kim
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Literature and Literary TheoryArts and Humanities
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Book Chapter|31 citations·2016
Narrative Data Analysis and Interpretation: “Flirting” With Data
Jeong‐Hee Kim
General Social SciencesSocial Sciences
10
Article|27 citations·2012
Teacher action research as Bildung : An application of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to teacher professional development
Jeong‐Hee Kim
SJR Q1Journal of Curriculum StudiesOA

Teacher action research seeks to bring together action, reflection, theory, and practice; and it is acknowledged as a way to value and honour teachers’ practical knowledge. The purpose of this article is to conceptualize teacher action research as Bildung, applying Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics as a theoretical framework. Based on five teachers’ lived experiences of conducting action research in their classrooms, this study explores how teachers go through the process of the development o

EducationSocial Sciences
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Article|25 citations·2009
Narrative Inquiry: Seeking Relations as Modes of Interactions
Jeong‐Hee Kim, Margaret Macintyre Latta
SJR Q2The Journal of Educational Research

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The important roles of reviewers made this issue possible. In particular, we would like to sincerely thank Margaret Olsen, Tom Barone, and Nona Lyons for their feedback on manuscripts during the compilation of this special issue. The willingness and support offered by The Journal of Educational Research toward making this issue on narrative inquiry possible is deeply appreciated.

Clinical PsychologyPsychology
12
Article|23 citations·2018
Understanding the “Other”: Rethinking Multiculturalism in South Korea through Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
Jeong‐Hee Kim, Kyunghee So
SJR Q1International Journal of Multicultural EducationOA

In this paper, we interrogate the current state of multiculturalism and multicultural education in South Korea and offer a possible theoretical framework that is lacking in the field of multicultural education. We provide three principles of multicultural understanding grounded in Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics to inform multiculturalism in South Korea and beyond. Based on these principles, we propose that multiculturalism be understood and educated as a way of being, that is, as an ontolo

EducationSocial Sciences
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Article|23 citations·2010
Understanding student resistance as a communicative act
Jeong‐Hee Kim
SJR Q1Ethnography & Education

In the current era of ‘zero tolerance’, disciplinary practices including punishment, expulsion, physical and psychological surveillance, and confinement are a major part of resistant students’ lived experiences. This article is an ethnographic study of student resistance that is observed in an alternative high school in the USA, which serves students expelled from regular schools for their acts of resistance. The purpose of this study is to explore how understanding of the meaning of student res

EducationSocial Sciences
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Article|19 citations·2011
Understanding the Lived Experience of a Sioux Indian Male Adolescent: Toward the pedagogy of hermeneutical phenomenology in education
Jeong‐Hee Kim
SJR Q1Educational Philosophy and TheoryOA

Currently, there is a resurgence of interests in phenomenology in education. This article sheds light on the importance of hermeneutical phenomenology in teaching and learning based on the lived experience of a Sioux Indian adolescent boy, elicited from an ethnographic case study conducted at an alternative high school in the US. Employing narrative inquiry, this article seeks phenomenological ways of understanding students' lived experiences and explores the meaning of the pedagogical practice

PhilosophyArts and Humanities
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Article|17 citations·1995
Improved recovery of gravity anomalies from dense altimeter data /
Jeong‐Hee Kim
OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)OA

Residual geoid undulation predicted from both descending and ascend ing groups of GM d ata gridded using the tensioned cubic spline method after applying co-linear track filters and cross-over adjustments.The OSU91 Earth gravity model and the OSU91 DSST model of harmonic coefficients degree and order 360 and 10, respectively, are removed. .10 Power spectrum of residual geoid undulation shown in Figure 7.The nyquist frequencies are in the middle column and row of 64, and the power spectra represe

OceanographyEarth and Planetary Sciences

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