Education Studies

The Education Studies concentration is 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 may investigate...

• 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
• 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@myunion.edu.