Graduate Programs of Study

Distinctive Features of the Program

• It is a high quality program with selective admissions and a limited enrollment.
• It enrolls a variety of people with diverse professional experiences and backgrounds in education.
• It includes reflection on the experiences and deeply-felt concerns about educational problems that students bring to the program and builds connections between practical experience and theory.
• It is staffed by full-time faculty whose expertise will be complemented by that of outside experts and successful practitioners.
• It has a strong inter-disciplinary, urban, and multicultural focus.
• Its research perspective is embedded in and connected to the realities of professional practice.

Program Goals

1. To help practitioners make sense of the complex, dynamic and idiosyncratic ways they experience problems in education
2. To enhance students' understanding of the complex, dynamic interactions which occur between self and others as social, historical, psychological, and political constructs that shape emergent relationships in schools and other educational contexts
3. To facilitate students' understandings of the social, historical, psychological, and political (etc.) nature of the relationships among individuals, groups, and society
4. To broaden and contextualize students' concepts of education so as to enhance their ability to be leaders who collaboratively facilitate the critical examination of society, educational institutions, and the nature of the learning process
5. To enhance students' capacity to examine and weigh multiple perspectives and emergent "courses of action" in order to determine alternatives that are sensitive to the school, community, and broader societal contexts
6. To extend and challenge the boundaries of students' thinking about the goals of their professional practice
7. To support students' integration of interdisciplinary bodies of knowledge in order to interpret their daily encounters, to inform their decisions, and to help them shape the nature of educational institutions and the quality of educational processes

Learn about:

• Degree Requirements
• Distinctive Features and Goals
• Faculty
• Application Deadlines
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For More Information

Graduate Admissions
School of Education
2320 North Kenmore
Chicago IL 60614
edgradadmissions@depaul.edu
773-325-4405

Diana Satruc, Program Assistant
School of Education, SAC 325
2320 North Kenmore
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: 773-325-2155
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Karen Monkman, Ph.D.
Director, Ed.D. Program
School of Education
2320 North Kenmore
Chicago IL 60614
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