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SIG Chair - Tianlong (Tian) Yu

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Tianlong (Tian) Yu

Tian is a professor of education and department chair at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). He researches and writes on moral, citizenship, and multicultural education in both American and Chinese contexts. He is the author of In the Name of Morality: Character Education and Political Control (2004, Peter Lang) and co-editor of Character and Moral Education: A Reader (2011, Peter Lang) which won an American Educational Studies Association’s Critics Choice Book Award in 2012. His Chinese translation of Nel Noddings’ The Challenge to Care in Schools won China National Education Book Award in 2004. His most recent publications on civics and citizenship education appeared in Citizenship Teaching & Learning, and Chinese Education & Society. He is currently working on a narrative study of the experience of Chinese intellectuals under political repression and implications for democracy and citizenship. Tian has been a member of AERA since 2002. Before being elected Chair of the Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG, he served as its Program Chair in 2019-2020, and Treasurer-Secretary for the Confucianism, Taoism, and Education SIG in 2008-2011.