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Tianhong Zhang

Tianhong Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Education

Biography

Dr. Zhang graduated from a normal university and became a certified English instructor in secondary and postsecondary education in China. While in graduate school at the University of Akron, she got involved into the Ed-Tech education for K-12 in-service teachers and several granted evaluations of enhancing education through technology (EETT) in Ohio. When studying in the doctoral program at Kent State University, as the university’s out-reaching teaching fellow, she had the opportunity of teaching Chinese as a foreign language and tutoring ESL students in a high-need school district in Ohio for two years. She later returned to Kent State University and taught a diversity course for teacher licensure program, both online and face-to-face. At the same time, she taught Chinese in the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies.

Education and Credentials

  • PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education, Kent State University
  • MA in Instructional Technology, The University of Akron

Scholarly Works

  • Presentation of "An intercultural study with Q methodology: Interpretation of graduate students’ intercultural practices on a U.S. campus" at the 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (2018)
  • Presentation on "Challenge and similarity: Multiculturalism, globalization and internationalization of higher education" at 2014 Ohio Consortium of Multicultural Centers
  • Graduate students’ identities in the intercultural practices in a U.S. campus: A Q Inquiry". International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2018).
  • Book Review: Family Strategies, Guanxi, and School Success in Rural China. Frontiers of Education in China (2016).
  • Book Review: "The Demoralization of Teachers: Crisis in a Rural School in China". Comparative Education Review, (2014).

Interests

  • Watching basketball games with my kids and my husband
  • Reading books
  • Listening to Jacqueline du Pre’s cello performances
  • Watching movies

Why Cedarville?

God led me to Cedarville. I desired to teach at a Christian university. I am able to work with Christian colleagues together for pursuing students’ spiritual growth and academic excellence. I am blessed to be part of Cedarville’s stewardship of God and being godly servant.