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Education
Department Chairman: Robert Dreeben, J 103, 702-9456
Special Projects Coordinator for the Chairman: Tara Nekrosius, J 103, 702-9456
Office of Graduate Studies Administrator: Malinda Winans, J 121, 702-9458
Education is not a field organized around a "discipline" in the
conventional sense of that term. It is an area of action, of practice, subject
to scholarly inquiry from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Accordingly,
studies in education are not organized as a concentration. The Department
of Education recommends that students who are pursuing concentrations in
other baccalaureate programs but who wish to add education to their studies
take six courses distributed across the following four fields: (1) administrative,
institutional, and policy studies; (2) educational psychology; (3) measurement,
evaluation, and statistical analysis; and (4) curriculum and instruction.
While all of the six education courses may be treated as electives, many
concentration programs allow two of them to be counted as courses in the
concentration. Students interested in education are encouraged to consult
the Office of Graduate Studies of the Department of Education for advice
on course selection.
Joint Degree Opportunities. The department offers the B.A./M.A.T. (Master
of Arts in Teaching) in English or mathematics. Students who are interested
in either of these joint degree programs should (1) discuss their plans
with their College adviser as soon as possible; (2) consult with Malinda
Winans, Administrator, Office of Graduate Studies, by the end of their second
year; and (3) fulfill a significant portion of their B.A. requirements by
the end of their third year.
Faculty
MAX S. BELL, Professor, Department of Education; Director, Elementary Component,
University of Chicago School Mathematics Project
CHARLES E. BIDWELL, William Claude Reavis Professor, Departments of Sociology
and Education, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies,
and the College; Director, Ogburn/Stouffer Center for the Study of Population
and Social Organization at the National Opinion Research Center
ANTHONY BRYK, Professor, Department of Education and the College; Director,
Center for School Improvement
BERTRAM COHLER, William Rainey Harper Professor in the College; Professor,
Departments of Psychology (Human Development), Education, and Psychiatry,
and the Divinity School
JOHN E. CRAIG, Associate Professor, Department of Education and the College
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, Professor, Departments of Psychology (Human Development
and Mental Health) and Education and the College
ROBERT DREEBEN, Professor, Department of Education and the College; Chairman,
Department of Education
EDGAR G. EPPS, Marshall Field Professor, Department of Education
JENNIFER K. GATES, Lecturer, Department of Education; Teaching and Learning
Consultant, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
SUSAN GOLDIN-MEADOW, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology
and the College
GERALD GRAFF, George M. Pullman Professor, Departments of Education and
English Language & Literature
LARRY V. HEDGES, Stella M. Rowley Professor, Department of Education and
the College
GEORGE HILLOCKS, JR., Professor, Departments of Education and English Language
& Literature; Director, M.A.T. English Program
JANELLEN HUTTENLOCHER, William S. Gray Professor, Departments of Education
and Psychology (Cognition & Communication and Human Development) and
the College
PHILIP W. JACKSON, David Lee Shillinglaw Distinguished Service Professor,
Departments of Education and Psychology (Human Development), Committee on
Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods, and the College
ROBERT W. JEWELL, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education
CARL F. KAESTLE, Professor, Department of Education
LUCINDA LEE KATZ, Lecturer, Department of Education; Director, University
of Chicago Laboratory Schools
SUSAN C. LEVINE, Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Psychology
and the College
FREDERICK F. LIGHTHALL, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology
(Social and Organizational Psychology) and the College
ROBERT T. MICHAEL, Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor,
Department of Education, Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy
Studies, and the College; Research Associate, Economics Research Center
at the National Opinion Research Center
BARBARA SCHNEIDER, Senior Lecturer, Department of Education; Research Associate,
Ogburn/Stouffer Center
SARA L. SPURLARK, Lecturer, Department of Education
NANCY L. STEIN, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Cognition
& Communication, Developmental Psychology, and Human Development) and
the College
SUSAN S. STODOLSKY, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Human
Development)
THOMAS R. TRABASSO, Irving B. Harris Professor, Departments of Education
and Psychology (Cognition & Communication, Developmental Psychology,
and Human Development), and the College
ZALMAN USISKIN, Professor, Department of Education; Director, University
of Chicago School Mathematics Project; Director, M.A.T. Mathematics Program
KENNETH WONG, Associate Professor, Department
of Education and the College
BENJAMIN D. WRIGHT, Professor, Departments of Education and Psychology (Research
Methodology & Quantitative Psychology); Director, MESA Psychometric
Laboratory
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