Dr. Xiaoying Zhao
Associate Professor
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
Current Courses
TCH 450.091 Curriculum In Science Education
TCH 277.001 Social Studies For Early Childhood
TCH 277.002 Social Studies For Early Childhood
TCH 277.096 Social Studies For Early Childhood
TCH 276.096 Teaching Science In Early Childhood
Teaching Interests & Areas
Social Studies Methods, Multicultural Education
Research Interests & Areas
Critical Perspectives in Early Childhood Education, Social Studies Teacher Education, Critical Literacy, Children's Agency, Play, Ethnography, & Ungrading
PhD
University of Georgia
Grants and Contracts
Honoring Indigenous Voices: Panel Discussions
Xiaoying Zhao, Irenea Walker.
College of Education. 2023 - 2023
Integrating Social Studies and Science through “Best STEM Books”
Xiaoying Zhao.
College of Education. 2023 - 2023
FY 2022 Research Fellowship Grant
Xiaoying Zhao.
College of Education. 2021 - 2021
Illinois Gateways to Opportunity® ECE credential competency project – pilot phase.
Sherry Sanden, Alan Bates, Christie Angleton, Sandra Osorio, Miranda Lin, Xiaoying Zhao.
Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Development, Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. 2021
Illinois Gateways to Opportunity® ECE credential competency project
Alan Bates, Sherry Sanden, Miranda Lin, Sandra Osorio, Christie Angleton, Xiaoying Zhao, Amanda Quesenberry.
Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Development, Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies. 2020
P is for Patriotic: An exploration of how children’s books conceptualize patriotism
Xiaoying Zhao.
College of Education. 2020 - 2020
We are what we see: Analyzing the assumptions children bring to their transactions with books
Xiaoying Zhao.
Center for the Expansion of Language and Thinking. 2020 - 2020
Journal Article
Preservice teachers and the patriotism of the 1619 and 1776 history narratives
Benjamin R Wellenreiter, Xiaoying Zhao, Thomas Lucey.
Social Studies Research and Practice, (2024), https://doi.org/10.1108/SSRP-12-2023-0073
P is for Patriotism: Messaging of Patriotic Symbols and Rituals in Picturebooks
Benjamin R Wellenreiter, Xiaoying Zhao, Christie Angleton.
Social Studies Teaching and Learning, 4 (1), 1/22, (2023)
What does oppression look like in 2022 notable books?
Xiaoying Zhao.
(2023)
Critical identity literacy with young learners: Exploring gender and race at the intersection of social studies and art
Xiaoying Zhao, Christie Angleton.
(2022)
Storying identity through arts-based readerly responses: Fourth-grade girls represent gender and race
Xiaoying Zhao.
(2022)
What kinds of agents?: A framework for creating inclusive classroom libraries
Xiaoying Zhao.
(2022)
Can people like me be patriotic too? Gender, race, and economics in “patriotic” picturebooks.
Christie Angleton, Xiaoying Zhao, Benjamin Wellenreiter.
Oregon Journal of the Social Studies, 9 (2), 24-37, (2021)
Examining the role of trust in shaping children’s approaches to peer dialogue
Jennifer Hauver, Jessica Kobe, Xiaoying Zhao.
(2017)
Performance as pedagogy: Children’s trust and the negotiation of subjectivities in the context of deliberative dialogue
Jennifer Hauver, Xiaoying Zhao, Jessica Kobe.
(2017)
Children’s power relations after the U.S. 2016 election: A diffractive analysis
Xiaoying Zhao, Christie Angleton.
From our ivory towers: Enacting our collective daily resistance through ungrading
Xiaoying.