Coordinator: Dr. Tanja Sargent (848-932-0732; email: tanja.sargent@gse.rutgers.edu)
This concentration is designed to attract a diverse cohort of students who desire systematic and rigorous advanced study of theoretical and practical issues of social and educational equity, change, and reform. The intended audience for this concentration is school and higher education leaders, reformers, policymakers, and teachers. The goal is to enact improvements to practice and thus to improve the process of education. Students in this concentration will be challenged to understand and use research and data effectively in meeting the problems of practice, particularly those related to equity and social justice.
REQUIREMENTS
Core Courses (24 credits)
15:255:611 Leadership I: Leadership in Schools and Communities (3)
15:255:612 Leadership II: Change Process (3)
15:255:615 Social Context I: Sociocultural Foundations of Education (3)
15:255:617 Social Context II: History of School Reform in America (3)
15:255:606 Learners and Learning I: Key Principles of Learning (3)
15:255:607 Learners and Learning II: Adult Learning and Training (3)
15:255:603 Inquiry I: Introduction to Methods and Uses of Inquiry (3)
15:255:602 Inquiry II: Program Evaluation (3)
Required Concentration Courses (18 credits)
15:310:561 History of African American Education OR 15:310:561 Race, Ethnicity, and Inequality in Education
15:310:503 Comparative Education OR 15:310:568 Migration, Globalization, and Education
One course from among the following:
15:230:609
Leading for Social Justice
15:310:542 Urban Education
15:310:540 Gender and Education
15:310:569 Queer Issues and Schools
16:300:541 Economics of Education
16:507:535 History of Higher Education
Methods Courses (6 credits)
16:300:509 Qualitative Research Methods I
16:300:513 Qualitative Research Methods II
OR by advisement from among the following alternate options
15:291:531 Statistics I
16:300:515 ANOVA
15:291:532 Statistics II
16:300:519 Regression
16:920:541 Statistical Methods in Sociology I
16:300:511 Quantitative Methods I
16:920:542
Statistical Methods in Sociology II
16:300:647
Historical Research Methods
15:230:615 Assessment, Data, and Problem Solving
Two electives from
within or outside the Graduate School of Education (6 credits)
