Courses
EDP 5063 US Education Policy in Historical Perspective
This course takes a historically-informed approach to examining educational policy in the U.S. and will mix some limited presentations with seminar-style discussions. The course invites your sustained exploration of current educational policy through various historical perspectives. The course sessions break out thematically into three parts. First, we’ll look to frame ed policy in a wider educational landscape, via a comprehensive view of education, exploring what it means, what it includes, and the purposes it serves. We’ll then shift to some underlying dilemmas embedded in our history, primarily relating to civil religion, markets, law, place, ideology, and community. Finally, we’ll focus in on a handful of topic areas that reflect a messy mix of those dilemmas – homeschooling, school finance, community schooling, and social media. Your own experiences, expertise, and inquiries will add immeasurably to the content of the course, and your active participation will be invited. In all of this, there will be some special attention to Chicago as a context for our explorations. This should allow us to attend to the reality – and challenge -- of how distinct policy topics or dilemmas play out in intertwined ways on the ground across time.
EDP 7501
Faculty. Permission by instructor required. Required of doctoral students in the semester following successful completion of certification examinations.
EDPH 4060 History of Education in NYC
An examination of the city’s educational institutions from the perspective of the different school populations who attended them over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries.
EDPH 4070 History of Education in the US
Considers the development of American education in the context of American social and intellectual history.
EDPH 4076 History of Urban Education
Understanding the development of schooling in US cities, with an emphasis on social, economic, and spatial changes in the metropolitan environment and their interactions with schools.
EDPH 4901 Research and Independent Study: History and Education
Permission of instructor required.
EDPH 5070 History and Theory of Higher Education
What is the purpose of higher education, and how has its purpose changed over time? In this course, we will investigate this fundamental question by contextualizing how religious, cultural, political, and international dynamics have contoured American higher education since the origins of the first colonial colleges to its present-day policies and issues.
EDPH 5076 History of African-American Education
An exploration of informal and formal education from slavery to the present.
EDPH 5190 Old and New Histories of Higher Education Institutions
This research seminar, open to students from any program, supports research on the history of Teachers College as an academic institution. The last history of TC was published in 1954. New histories are vitally needed now. Fresh evidence, more recently published scholarship, and alternative perspectives make this endeavor an excellent opportunity for students to engage in historical research.
EDPH 5195 Experience, Education and Histories
This seminar takes a historical perspective to explore learning through experience changed with the rise of mass schooling, increasing urbanization and industrialization, and the revolution in technology and communications. Special attention will be given to initiatives aiming to promote learning through experience amidst the ever-expanding built world and the standardization and regimentation of formal education. The seminar examines the history of efforts to foster learning settings that integrate direct experience, spontaneity, creativity, adventure and play more fully into the education of children and young adults.
EDPH 5670
Discussion of research and teaching topics in history and education. Permission of instructor required.
EDPH 6041 History & Education Historical Method
Methods, principles, and problems of historical research and interpretation. Designed for students throughout the College undertaking systematic inquiries on historical topics.
EDPH 6901
Permission of instructor required.
EDPH 8901
Faculty. Individual advisement on doctoral dissertations. Fee to equal 3 points at current tuition rate for each term. For requirements, see section in catalog on Continuous Registration for Ed.D./Ph.D. degrees.