Kedmon N. Hungwe
Contact
- khungwe@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1966
- M&M 306
- Professor, Psychology and Human Factors
- PhD, Michigan State University, 1999
Biography
Kedmon Hungwe is Professor of Psychology and Human Factors at Michigan Technological University. His teaching spans educational psychology, culture and cognition, the psychology of race, and the psychology of social media. Before joining Michigan Tech, he was also a founding member of the graduate program in Educational Technology at the University of Zimbabwe’s Center for Educational Technology, where he designed and taught graduate courses in educational technology.
In addition, he has held visiting appointments at Rhodes University(South Africa), the University of Roehampton (UK), the University of Oxford (UK), and Michigan State University.
Dr. Hungwe earned his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Michigan State University, an M.S. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a Graduate Certificate in Education, and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Zimbabwe.
His research covers STEM education, learning and development in cross-cultural contexts, spatial visualization, curriculum reform, and the role of media and technology in education. He has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on projects funded by the National Science Foundation and the Michigan Department of Education, including multi-million-dollar initiatives to improve teacher quality and STEM learning outcomes.
Dr. Hungwe has published in international journals and edited volumes on topics such as educational technology, curriculum and policy reform, media and culture, and workplace learning. He has also contributed to science education textbooks and worked as an evaluator and consultant for STEM education programs nationally and internationally.
His honors include being named a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow (2023), membership in Phi Kappa Phi, inclusion in Marquis Who’s Who in America, and the W.B. & Candace Thoman Fellowship. He currently serves on the editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications and on the advisory board of the Journal of Science of Learning and Innovations.
Links of Interest
Research Interests
- Cultural foundations of cognition
- Media theory and criticism
- Lifespan development theory
- STEM education
- Digital Literacy Project @ Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa: with funding from Carnegie Foundation.