Dr. Kyaw Win Tun

Dr. Kyaw Win Tun received his Ph.D. in Education (Curriculum and Instruction) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2020, and he also has an M.A. in Curriculum and Instruction from Portland State University. He was a teacher and teacher educator in Myanmar for over a decade before pursuing his doctoral studies. His doctoral research focused on Burmese diasporic youth in U.S. urban schools, examining how their identity was constructed in their school contexts and how it affected their learning. Based on the research, he published an article in the Anthropology and Education Quarterly. From 2022 to 2024, as a visiting researcher at Lancaster University, he conducted research on international students from the Global South in higher education in the Global North. His research interests include diaspora education, language and literacy education, teacher education, education and identity, internationalization of higher education, ethnographic study, and critical theory. 

Dr. Kyaw Win Tun served as a course instructor and teacher supervisor in the teacher education program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In 2022 and 2023, he led the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program, known as စာဖတ်၀ိုင်း, at Parami University, which trained youth to integrate critical thinking and reflection with lived experience through critical reading. 

Quote: I believe teaching is learning together to produce critical questions and to reflect on one's past and immediate experience in the context of our class event.