School of Education
DEPARTMENTSProgram description
Cohort Model
Cohort group of 15 to 26 learners
- Respectful and critical conversations
- Diversity of perspectives
- Camaraderie among learners.
Because members of each cohort come from a variety of backgrounds, discussions are rich and experiences are deep.
The cohort model provides a setting where students come to know each other's strengths while benefiting from each others experiences and ideas.
With a commitment to an inclusive, shared environment, the cohort model strives to create a learning community where students will work collaboratively and give each other intellectual and emotional support.
Cohort Participation in Planning
Each cohort, in conjunction with faculty, develops its own method of participation in the planning of each course and program as a whole. This allows the cohort to practice specific critical pedagogic models of teacher/student collaboration.
Advising
An advisor among core faculty members will be assigned randomly to individual students. The advisor is the person students can go to regarding any individual curricular or programmatic concerns they have. When you are at the dissertation stage, you will choose a dissertaion chair who will serve as your advisor.
Advanced Candidacy
In order to move to the dissertation research phase, you will participate in an Advanced Candidacy examination process around the end of year two. Advanced Candidacy is an opportunity to satisfactorily demonstrate your writing ability and depth of understanding of critical pedagogy through an assignment that requires you to synthesize the knowledge gained in the first two years of the program.
Dissertation
- A culminating original research project
- An opportunity to contribute to the critical pedagogy field
You have the widest possible scope, consistent with standards of academic integrity and scholarly inquiry, to work on projects that contribute to the advancement of social justice.
Students have worked on dissertation projects that span an array of topics:
- K-12 curriculum and pedagogy
- special education
- teachers and teacher education
- educational policies and programs
- marginalized groups in schools
- social and community education
- global educational and social movements
