SeungJung Chichester

Dr. SeungJung Chichester is currently an Assistant Professor of Early Childhood Education in the School of Education at SUNY Geneseo. Before coming to SUNY Geneseo, she taught teacher candidates in Early Childhood Education at the University of Montana Western and SUNY Buffalo. Before becoming a teacher educator, she worked with culturally and linguistically diverse children in the US and South Korea as a preschool teacher.

Her areas of research include children’s learning through collaborative and real-life experiences, such as cooking, as well as pre-service teachers’ perceptions and enactment of child-centered instructional approaches, and culturally responsive teaching for multilingual children.