About our People

Mi Song Kim joined as an Assistant professor at the Learning Sciences Lab in August 2008. She was awarded a doctoral fellowship from Fonds de Recherché sur la Société et la Culture from 2004 to 2007 for her doctoral study in the Department of Cognitive Science in Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, Canada. Her thesis investigates young children’s meaning-making processes, based on Vygotskian perspectives on cognitive development and literacy teaching and learning. Her research interests include social, cognitive, and affective aspects of learning and teaching, multiliteracies, concept formation and technology-mediated collaborative learning environments with an emphasis on new media literacy.