Education Studies

Education Studies is a concentration designed for learners who are not seeking teacher licensure but who
are interested in exploring educational issues from an interdisciplinary liberal arts perspective. The concentration encompasses a variety of topics in the social, psychological, political, cultural, and economic dimensions of education.

A primary area of focus is the complex relationship between the purposes and effects of schooling. Within this broad category learners investigate, for example:

• the role of schools in a diverse democracy
• the relationship among families, communities, and schools
• the tension between the equality of opportunity and social reproduction
• the sorting function of elite education vs. universal access
• effective approaches to teaching and learning in the context of human development
• the importance of content mastery vs. the construction
  of knowledge and meaning
• or the effects of local, state, and federal policy
  on student achievement.

Learners will explore such issues through reading, research, experiential learning, reflection, and critical analysis.

*For those learners pursuing a licensure, requirements state that learners must concentrate in an academic field aligned with their prospective teaching career, and not in the field of education.

For more information, or to receive a brochure and DVD, please contact an enrollment counselor at 888-828-8575 or 802-828-8500 (outside the U.S.) or email admissions@tui.edu