Awards

1.Early Career Outstanding Research Award, Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Education SIG, American Educational Research Association, 2021

2.Educational Studies Student of the Year, College of Education, University of Oklahoma, 2017

Recent Seminar/Forum & Workshop

1.Yang, J. (October 2021). Presenter. A Mutual Engagement between John Dewey and China. AERA CBTE (Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Education) SIG & Sino-American Educational Research Association-Workshop Series on “Holism, Humanity, & Harmony: Re-awakening Humankind in the Post-pandemic Era.” (Virtual meeting)

2.Yang, J. (January, 2021). Panelist. AERA CBTE SIG & Sino-American Educational Research Association- Global Forum (Love, Unity, Peace & Hope) Appreciating Closing Ceremony & The Inauguration of the Global Youth Union of World Peace. (Virtual meeting)

3.Yang, J. (August, 2020). Presenter. Hu Shih, John Dewey, and the Chinese Literary Reformation. UIC Summer Lecture Series on Chinese Culture. (Virtual meeting)

4.Yang, J (June 2019). Teaching Chinese Philosophy in the Context of Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in a Liberal Arts College. Inaugural Seminar of the Center for East-West Studies in Education, Hangzhou Normal University. Hangzhou, China.

5.Yang, J. (October, 2018). Presenter. UIC Chinese Language and Culture Center-Workshop on “Journey to the West in Comics.”

6.Yang, J. (May, 2017). Invited Speaker. When Confucius “Encounters” John Dewey, Chinese Division, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

7.Yang, J. (June, 2013). Invited Speaker. How to Understand Educational Theory as Encounter? The Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.