SeungJung Chichester
Assistant Professor, Early Childhood Education
South 228D
(585)245-5560
sjo@geneseo.edu
She/Her/Hers
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.
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Chichester, S., & Galbraith, J. (2025). Pre-service teachers’ perceptions and enactment of process-oriented art experiences for multilingual children. Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 46(3), 567–584. https://doi.org/10.1080/10901027.2025.2540046
Jo, S., & Seo, Y. S. (2023). Does maths self-concept mediate the relation between instructional approaches and students’ maths achievement? Evidence from the U.S. TIMSS 2015 data. Research Papers in Education, 38(2), 143–163. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2021.1961294
Etopio, E., Winkelsas, A., Jo, S., Karalis Noel, T., Kearney, E., & Gorlewski, J. (2023). Eden’s Garden: A cultivator’s chronicle. Policy Futures in Education, 21(5), 603-621.
Jo, S., Son, JW. ‘I Can Create and Eat it for Snack’: How Can Cooking Activities Support Early Math Learning?. Early Childhood Educ J 50, 983–997 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-021-01230-0