2020 PLAN
RECRUITING AND DEVELOPING FACULTY WHO ARE COMMITTED TO SOCIAL JUSTICE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF PLAN 2020: BUILDING A MORE JUST, HUMANE, AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD, LOYOLA’S NEW STRATEGIC PLAN. MEET FOUR FACULTY MEMBERS WHO ARE HELPING THE UNIVERSITY FURTHER THIS MISSION.
LESSONS IN JUSTICE
BY KRISTEN HANNUM
SEUNGHO MOON, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION “I try to promote cross-cultural conversation between East and West,” says Seungho Moon, EdD, an assistant professor of curriculum studies in the School of Education. Through his programs in schools, his writing, and his teaching, the native of South Korea advocates for arts in school curricula, giving children a safe environment to explore and share their diverse perspectives. “Art gives us different ways to communicate, gives us a space to think about and respect different ways of thinking,” he explains. “Art is an intangible element, giving rise to our social and ethical imagination. It opens up unknown ways of knowing.” Curriculum studies as a field explores what knowledge is
important. “It looks at what is considered known, and how do we decide who knows what,” Moon says. “I try to provide different ways of looking at the world from different schools of scholarship.” He wants his students to ask other ques- tions as well, beginning with, “How do we promote learn- ing, equity, and justice?” Moon deliberately carries forward the work of his men-
tor, Maxine Greene, an education theorist who spoke and wrote at length about the importance of imagination.
Another mentor, Janet Miller, taught him the importance of openness in defining curriculum. He met them while studying for his doctorate at Teachers College, Columbia University. He’s proven a prolific writer on curriculum studies that
promotes equity, multiculturalism, and justice, authoring dozens of articles, book reviews, book chapters, and transla- tions in both Korean and English. His transnational background, love of arts and philoso-
phy, passion for social justice, and belief in the power of the imagination all led to Moon’s critical questioning of frames of important knowledge and power operations. Moon came to Loyola in 2015 after teaching for four
years at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Budget cuts have meant that arts education in Oklahoma isn’t part of children’s school day. Moon wrote a grant for an afterschool program, ARtS—Aesthetic, Reflexive thoughts and Sharing. Fourth, fifth, and sixth graders in the course share their multiple perspectives through their art. Moon describes both Chicago and Loyola as his “land of
opportunity,” a place he can further his work in partnership with schools, designing curricula that combine the arts and social justice. He hopes to build those programs through
Opposite: Seungho Moon, EdD, an assistant profes- sor in the School of Education, works with Loyola juniors in his “Teaching & Learning within a Global Framework” class at Ogden International School. Moon’s research focuses on promot- ing social justice and equity through curriculum studies.
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