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Department of Education
It has been noted that learning and development occur through the agency of other human beings. At different times, these other human beings may be parents, friends, school teachers, or university faculty. The education they provide may be not only in school classrooms, but also within families and communities, or in cyberspace. The Faculty of the Education Department is vitally concerned with these essential human transactions, how they occur, what effects they have, and what affects them. Our faculty also is vitally concerned to prepare the next generation of thinkers, leaders, and scholars in the several fields of education. In this pursuit, we want our students to understand not only education in school classrooms, but also, in the broader, and increasingly multicultural, multilingual, and digital world we occupy. So, our students explore different angles of vision; they observe the differing effects of schools and institutions, the mediating effects of culture and language, the facilitating or constraining effects of leadership and public policy, and the profound effects of human differences. Through its research and teaching, the faculty mentors each individual student, works to elevate them as educators, and inspires in them enduring commitments to learning, scholarship, and excellence.
Degrees: M.A. and Ph.D. in Education
Emphases: Child and Adolescent Development; Cultural Perspectives and Comparative Education; Educational Leadership and Organizations; Research Methodology; Special Education, Disabilities, and Risk Studies; Teaching and Learning
Optional Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Emphases: Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science; Language, Interaction, and Social Organization; Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences; Technology and Society; Global Studies
Minors: Education Minor (Educational Studies Track)
Welcome from the Chair
BETSY BRENNER
Ph.D., Professor
On behalf of the faculty of the Department of Education, I am pleased to welcome you to our website!
In the Department of Education at UCSB we offer students the opportunity to learn and create knowledge that addresses the needs of learners, schools and public agencies with a focus on the diversity of California, the nation and the world.
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