Boston University School of Education
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Boston University School of Education (SED) is the school of education
within Boston University
. It is located on the University's Charles River Campus in Boston
, Massachusetts
in the former Lahey Clinic
building. The Dean of SED is Hardin Coleman. SED has more than 31,000 alumni, 107 full-time faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate students. Boston University School of Education was ranked 56th in the nation in 2010 by U.S. News and World Report in their rankings of graduate schools of education . The School of Education is a member institution of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
SED houses the oldest continuously published journal in the field of education in the country, the Journal of Education. The Journal of Education was formed in 1875 by the union of the Maine Journal of Education, the Massachusetts Teacher, the Rhode Island Schoolmaster, the Connecticut School Journal, and the College Courant. Originally called the New England Journal of Education and later renamed the Journal of Education, in 1952 the journal was sold to the Boston University School of Education. In 1976 the School of Education celebrated the 100th-year publication with a special issue of the Journal, including excerpts from the first issue. During its long history, the journal has published the work of Michael Apple
, Jean Anyon
, Burton Blatt
, Carol Chomsky
, Linda Darling-Hammond
, Eleanor Duckworth
, Donald Durrell, Paulo Freire
, Henry Giroux
, Maxine Greene
, Jonathan Kozol
, Alfie Kohn
, Robert Pinsky
, Lee Shulman
, and Elie Wiesel
. In 2009, the Journal of Education became a peer-reviewed publication.
in Education undergraduate degree in ten areas and graduate degrees in more than twenty areas through the Master of Education
degree, the Master of Arts in Teaching
degree, the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, and the Doctor of Education
degree. Although programs are grouped within academic departments that reflect the chief teaching and research interests of the faculty, course work and projects often extend across departmental lines into other areas of the School and University.
Programs in the Department of Educational Leadership prepare students for a variety of responsibilities in administration, training, and policy-centered development work. Graduates can be found in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school administration, student and alumni affairs, corporate training and development, international educational development, and directing international schools.
Programs in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching prepare professionals for teaching and other leadership responsibilities in education. Students prepare for educational work in schools, media centers, school libraries, community agencies, and educational research projects, as well as state and national educational organizations. Most programs include courses leading to classroom teaching certification. Boston University’s special education program offers a dual-degree program with the School of Social Work that enables qualified students to earn either the M.S.W./Ed.M. or the M.S.W./Ed.D.
The Department of Literacy and Language, Counseling and Development includes programs in school and community counseling, sport psychology, and human development and education that prepare students for practice informed by the latest theories in life-span development. The literacy and reading education programs, based on the most recent research in the field, prepare students to be reading specialists, provide educational interventions in literacy, and contribute new knowledge to the field through doctoral study. Leading-edge areas of study in language education include education of the deaf (bilingual/bicultural focus), teaching English to speakers of other languages (K–12 ESL and adult TESOL), and modern foreign language education.
Master’s degree and C.A.G.S. programs usually require the equivalent of one year of full-time study. Doctoral programs generally require the equivalent of two or more years of full-time study.
The Early Childhood Learning Laboratory (ECLL) is a preschool affiliated with and located at the School of Education. It is a laboratory and demonstration school available to Boston University students, parents of children in the program, and other early childhood professionals for observing children and teachers. Children whose families live in the local neighborhood primarily attend this open-enrollment school. There are 20 children, ages 2.9-5, in a mixed age group with two licensed early childhood teachers. The preschool program employs an innovative, inquiry-based approach to curriculum design. Teachers determine a topic of study that relates to the children's interest. The concepts or big ideas of this topic are decided upon, and activities are designed to teach those concepts. Teachers continually monitor the children's engagement in the activities, documenting their comments, questions, and interactions in order to make on-going adjustments to the plan and the environment.
The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) is a multimedia technology resource center that supports a wide range of instructional and communication aids, including extensive computing and printing resources, mulitmedia classrooms, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, and video technology
Boston University School of Education grants graduate degrees in the following academic concentrations:
Hardin Coleman, current dean of the School of Education at Boston University. His research focus is the development of school counselors, family therapy, supervision, advanced clinical courses, and spirituality in counseling. He has also published numerous articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, The School Counselor, the Psychological Bulletin, and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. His clinical focus is lower-income African American families with a particular interest in adolescents. He is the editor of the recently published Handbook on School Counseling.
Thomas Cottle, current professor of education at Boston University. A sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, he is the author of thirty books and more than five hundred and fifty articles, essays and reviews on topic in psychology, sociology, and adolescent development. He worked under Erik Erikson
at Harvard University, and later held a position at The Children’s Defense Fund. In the 1970s and 1980s he was also the host of the syndicated Tom Cottle Show, where he interviewed guests on topics related to psychology. Interviewees included Andy Kaufman and Henry Fonda.
Bruce Fraser, current professor of education at Boston University. He studied under Noam Chomsky at MIT and in a series of papers beginning in 1990, he has set forth a theory of discourse markers, which defines this functional class and distinguishes them from other particles and similar lexical formatives, and is currently writing a book on the sub-class of contrastive discourse markers.
Henry Giroux
, former professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
James Paul Gee
, former professor of education from 1982–1988 and chair of the Department of Developmental Studies and Counseling. His research focus is in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. and recently he has written about video games and literacy.
Charles Glenn, current professor of education at Boston University and former dean ad interim. From 1970 to 1991 he served as director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education where he oversaw the administration of state funds for magnet schools and desegregation and was responsible for the nation's first state bilingual education mandates.
Roselmina (Lee) Indrisano, current professor of education and past-president of the International Reading Association and the Reading Hall of Fame. Her expertise is in literacy, particularly literacy instruction and assessment.
Mary Catherine O’Connor, current professor of education at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests are in linguistics and applied linguistics. She is currently principal investigator of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct crosslinguistic typological work on the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of determiner phrases.
Jeanne Paratore, current professor of education at Boston University. In 2002, she completed a three-year term as a member of the International Reading Association’s Board of Directors.
Evangeline Stefanakis, current professor of education at Boston University. She has helped lead major educational reform projects including work with the World Bank, UNESCO, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Annenberg Research and Evaluation Team.
David Whittier, current professor of education at Boston University. His focus is computer-based multimedia, instructional television, and distance education and he serves as a consultant to PBS program developers and educational multimedia companies and is actively involved with other colleges and universities and the Massachusetts Department of Education in advising the commissioner of education and other policy agencies on technology issues for all levels of educators.
Leonard Zaichkowsky, current professor of education and medicine at Boston Universirty. He is a licensed psychologist who specializes in sport and performance psychology and he has consulted with the U. S., Canadian, and Australian Olympic Organizations, the NBA (Boston Celtics), Major League Baseball Players Association, NFL, NHL Players Association and Calgary Flames, and most recently with the Spanish World Cup Soccer Team.
Linda Applegarth, SED’71,’75, Director of Psychological Services at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in both the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Cynthia Ballenger, SED'94 Author of Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom and founder of the Brookline Teacher Research Group
Wendy J. Chamberlin, SED’71, former U.S. Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, currently President of the Middle East Institute
Mae Chu Chang, SED’79, Lead General Educator for East Asia and the Pacific Region of the World Bank
Gardner Dunnan, SED’65, Dean of Admission at Princeton University from 1978 to 1983.
Marylouise Fennell, RSM, SED’76, Senior counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
Karen Gallas, SED'81 Author of several books on literacy including Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning and The Languages of Learning: How Children Talk, Write, Dance, Draw, and Sing Their Understanding of the World
Nancy Dodd Harrington, SED’70, former Salem State College President
Clifford Janey, SED’84, Superintendent of Schools, Washington D.C.
Jon Saphier, SED'80 is the founder of Research for Better Teaching, a professional development organization dedicated to improving teaching and learning, and author of The Skillful Teacher.
Richard Schwab, SED’74, Dean of the Neag School of Education and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut
School of education
In the United States and Canada, a school of education is a division within a university that is devoted to scholarship in the field of education, which is an interdisciplinary branch of the social sciences encompassing sociology, psychology, linguistics, economics, political science, public...
within Boston University
Boston University
Boston University is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers...
. It is located on the University's Charles River Campus in Boston
Boston
Boston is the capital of and largest city in Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England" for its economic and cultural impact on the entire New England region. The city proper had...
, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...
in the former Lahey Clinic
Lahey Clinic
The Lahey Clinic is a physician-led nonprofit teaching hospital of Tufts University School of Medicine based in Burlington, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1923 by surgeon Frank H...
building. The Dean of SED is Hardin Coleman. SED has more than 31,000 alumni, 107 full-time faculty, and both undergraduate and graduate students. Boston University School of Education was ranked 56th in the nation in 2010 by U.S. News and World Report in their rankings of graduate schools of education . The School of Education is a member institution of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).
History
Boston University School of Education was founded in 1918. Dr. Arthur H. Wilde, the first dean of the School, wrote, "Our policy has been to keep in as vital touch with the everyday work of the schools as we could—to know the needs of the teachers and of the school officers and to give immediate satisfaction to those needs, yet with a view to the broader education of these teachers and officers."SED houses the oldest continuously published journal in the field of education in the country, the Journal of Education. The Journal of Education was formed in 1875 by the union of the Maine Journal of Education, the Massachusetts Teacher, the Rhode Island Schoolmaster, the Connecticut School Journal, and the College Courant. Originally called the New England Journal of Education and later renamed the Journal of Education, in 1952 the journal was sold to the Boston University School of Education. In 1976 the School of Education celebrated the 100th-year publication with a special issue of the Journal, including excerpts from the first issue. During its long history, the journal has published the work of Michael Apple
Michael Apple
Michael W. Apple is a leading critical educational theorist, recognized for numerous books and scholarly interests, which center on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools.He is currently the , at the...
, Jean Anyon
Jean Anyon
Jean Anyon is a leading critical thinker and researcher in education. Her work uses political economy to assess the impact of public policy on urban neighborhoods and schools...
, Burton Blatt
Burton Blatt Institute
The ' , located at Syracuse University, is an organization that aims to advance civic, economic, and social participation of persons with disabilities in a global society.-History:...
, Carol Chomsky
Carol Chomsky
Carol Chomsky was an American linguist and education specialist who studied language acquisition in children....
, Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond
Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at the Stanford University School of Education, where she launched the , the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute, and the . Darling-Hammond is author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than 300 articles on...
, Eleanor Duckworth
Eleanor Duckworth
Eleanor Ruth Duckworth is a cognitive psychologist, educational theorist and constructivist educator. A former student, colleague, leading translator and interpreter of Jean Piaget as well as renowned Professor of Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education, she is one of the leading...
, Donald Durrell, Paulo Freire
Paulo Freire
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.-Biography:...
, Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies,...
, Maxine Greene
Maxine Greene
Maxine Greene is an American educational philosopher, author, social activist, and teacher.-Career:American educational philosopher, author, social activist and teacher who values experiential learning in its "entirety", Maxine Greene has influenced thousands of educators to bring the vitality of...
, Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol
Jonathan Kozol is a non-fiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his books on public education in the United States. Kozol graduated from Noble and Greenough School in 1954, and Harvard University summa cum laude in 1958 with a degree in English Literature. He was awarded a Rhodes...
, Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn is an American author and lecturer who has explored a number of topics in education, parenting, and human behavior...
, Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky is an American poet, essayist, literary critic, and translator. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Pinsky is the author of nineteen books, most of which are collections of his own poetry...
, Lee Shulman
Lee Shulman
Lee S. Shulman is an educational psychologist who has made notable contributions to the study of teacher education, assessment of teaching, and education in the fields of medicine, science and mathematics...
, and Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
. In 2009, the Journal of Education became a peer-reviewed publication.
Programs of Study
Boston University School of Education offers a Bachelor of ScienceBachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years .-Australia:In Australia, the BSc is a 3 year degree, offered from 1st year on...
in Education undergraduate degree in ten areas and graduate degrees in more than twenty areas through the Master of Education
Master of Education
The Master of Education is a postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in a large number of countries. This degree in education often includes the following majors: curriculum and instruction, counseling, and administration. It is often conferred for educators advancing in...
degree, the Master of Arts in Teaching
Master of Arts in Teaching
The Master of Arts in Teaching degree is generally a pre-service degree that usually requires a minimum of 30 semester hours beyond the Bachelor's degree. While the program often requires education classes in order to meet state licensure requirements, it emphasizes advanced course work in a...
degree, the Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study, and the Doctor of Education
Doctor of Education
The Doctor of Education or Doctor in Education degree , in Latin, Doctor Educationis, is a research-oriented professional doctorate that prepares the student for academic, administrative, clinical, or research positions in educational, civil, and private organizations.-Differences between an Ed.D...
degree. Although programs are grouped within academic departments that reflect the chief teaching and research interests of the faculty, course work and projects often extend across departmental lines into other areas of the School and University.
Programs in the Department of Educational Leadership prepare students for a variety of responsibilities in administration, training, and policy-centered development work. Graduates can be found in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary school administration, student and alumni affairs, corporate training and development, international educational development, and directing international schools.
Programs in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching prepare professionals for teaching and other leadership responsibilities in education. Students prepare for educational work in schools, media centers, school libraries, community agencies, and educational research projects, as well as state and national educational organizations. Most programs include courses leading to classroom teaching certification. Boston University’s special education program offers a dual-degree program with the School of Social Work that enables qualified students to earn either the M.S.W./Ed.M. or the M.S.W./Ed.D.
The Department of Literacy and Language, Counseling and Development includes programs in school and community counseling, sport psychology, and human development and education that prepare students for practice informed by the latest theories in life-span development. The literacy and reading education programs, based on the most recent research in the field, prepare students to be reading specialists, provide educational interventions in literacy, and contribute new knowledge to the field through doctoral study. Leading-edge areas of study in language education include education of the deaf (bilingual/bicultural focus), teaching English to speakers of other languages (K–12 ESL and adult TESOL), and modern foreign language education.
Master’s degree and C.A.G.S. programs usually require the equivalent of one year of full-time study. Doctoral programs generally require the equivalent of two or more years of full-time study.
Research Facilities
The Pickering Educational Resources Library (PERL) houses materials on curriculum and instruction, including textbooks, tests, and a special K–12 collection. Students in the School have access to all libraries within the University system (including an extensive collection of electronic indexes and journals), as well as the Boston Library Consortium. The University collection is the second largest in New England (behind Harvard) and contains about 2.1 million volumes, with the equivalent of an additional 3.9 million volumes stored on microform, and a growing collection of Web-based resources. University media services include video services and photographic facilities. The School’s Instructional Materials Center supports a wide range of instructional and communications aids: computing and printing resources, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, video technology, and overhead transparencies and graphics. School-based clinics and learning laboratories offer opportunities for research and firsthand learning experiences.The Early Childhood Learning Laboratory (ECLL) is a preschool affiliated with and located at the School of Education. It is a laboratory and demonstration school available to Boston University students, parents of children in the program, and other early childhood professionals for observing children and teachers. Children whose families live in the local neighborhood primarily attend this open-enrollment school. There are 20 children, ages 2.9-5, in a mixed age group with two licensed early childhood teachers. The preschool program employs an innovative, inquiry-based approach to curriculum design. Teachers determine a topic of study that relates to the children's interest. The concepts or big ideas of this topic are decided upon, and activities are designed to teach those concepts. Teachers continually monitor the children's engagement in the activities, documenting their comments, questions, and interactions in order to make on-going adjustments to the plan and the environment.
The Instructional Materials Center (IMC) is a multimedia technology resource center that supports a wide range of instructional and communication aids, including extensive computing and printing resources, mulitmedia classrooms, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, and video technology
Programs, Centers, Conferences, and Community Outreach
- The Boston University/Boston Public Schools Collaborative is the administrative organization at the University that oversees more than a dozen programs created in support of the Boston Public Schools. In 1975, court-ordered school desegregation in Boston stimulated an unprecedented commitment by Boston-area colleges, universities, and businesses to help the city's schools and children. Boston University has been and continues to be an active participant. University resources contribute to the support of a full-time director who initiates and seeks funding for new programs which involve faculty and students in serving the needs of Boston school children.
- In 1977, the Boston University School of Education and a selection of Boston-area school districts, social service agencies, and overseas universities came together to form a consortium for the mutual exchange of expertise and training. Since that time, consortium school systems and social service agencies have offered SED students with a variety of settings in which to student-teach, gain school-based counseling experience, and work as administrative interns.
- The Boston University/Chelsea Partnership was the only example of a private university accepting responsibility for the day-to-day management of a public school system. Boston University provided managerial and educational expertise to oversee and rebuild an entire urban school system and to construct a model for the reform of urban education. This partnership was ended in June 2008.
- Boston University is one of five universities involved in Step UP, an unprecedented collaboration with the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the City of Boston to help ten local schools. Step UP was formed in the fall of 2006 and provides comprehensive, coordinated services aimed at improving student performance. Boston University’s two partner schools are the William Monroe Trotter Elementary School in Dorchester and the English High School in Jamaica Plain. Based on the needs identified by each partner school, BU aims to help the Trotter and the English make improvements in areas such as instruction and tutoring, after-school support, student wellness and safety, and family and community engagement.
- Upward Bound is a college preparatory program for potential first-generation college and low-income Boston Public High School students. It is a federally funded TRIO program that serves 75 low-income and first generation college students who join in either ninth and tenth grade and participate until high school graduation. Students must be enrolled in the Boston Public Schools and either attend one of the target high schools (Brighton High, English High, The Engineering School, Community Academy of Science and Health, Social Justice Academy, or Snowden High) or live in one of the target neighborhoods (Allston, Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, or Mattapan). Program Services include afternoon classes and tutoring during the school year and a residential six-week summer academic program.
- Jumpstart is an AmeriCorps program that recruits college students to mentor 3-5 year old children. Students read stories, sing songs, and play games that support young children’s school readiness and earn a Work-Study wage, a $1,500 living allowance, an AmeriCorps education award of up to $1,000, and take course credit in ED 206. Jumpstart Corps members work 8–12 hours a week in local early childhood centers, paired one-to-one with a partner child.
- The Boston University Conference on Language Development, regarded as the leading international conference in the field, takes place on campus every fall, with the active involvement of faculty and students from the School of Education. Two centers are also affiliated with the School: the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character and the Center for Communication and Deafness.
- The Institute for Athletic Coach Education (IACE) in the School of Education at Boston University is designed to focus attention on the need for education and training for youth sport coaches. At the Institute, youth sports are considered a vehicle for helping young people develop into productive members of society, with the guidance of a significant adult mentor who is most often a coach. We aim to provide present and future youth sport coaches with learning opportunities and resources to help them better understand their role and fulfill their responsibilities as leaders and educators in the community.
- COACH (College Opportunity and Career Help) empowers Boston Public School students to make informed decisions about their futures by matching current college students with 11th and 12th graders to provide information, to motivate, and to support these students as they make post-secondary plans. Working directly in the high school classrooms, coaches gain a unique perspective on issues of college access, public education, and educational opportunity. By linking practice with ongoing research and dialogue, COACH continually looks for ways to challenge, explore, and bridge the growing opportunity gap for traditionally underrepresented students.
- The Center for the Study of Communication and the Deaf is devoted to both applied and theoretical research to benefit the Deaf and their families. Faculty and students have focused on three major research themes: the acquisition of signed languages, the impact of language on the education of the Deaf child, and the developmental assessment of bilingual approaches to the education of Deaf children. A variety of community services focus on projects assisting the hearing parents of Deaf children and on workshops and presentations to area agencies. The center has recently begun to create assessment instruments to determine ASL development in Deaf children.
- The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston University addresses a range of issues related to young people acquiring sound ethical values and framing good character. Assists educators in becoming more competent and confident in the teaching and study of ethics and character. The center also fosters more research initiatives in and publications on moral and character education.
- The sedGreen committee is an expanding group of faculty, students, and staff who work to advocate for green practices and policies. Initiated in November 2006, sedGreen meets monthly to discuss environmental goals in the School of Education, as well as all of Boston University.
Granted Degrees
Boston University School of Education grants undergraduate degrees in the following academic concentrations:- Deaf Studies (BS)
- Early Childhood Education (BS)
- Elementary Education (BS)
- English Education (BS)
- English as a Second Language (BS)
- History and Social Science Education (BS)
- Mathematics Education (BS)
- Modern Foreign Language Education (BS)
- Science Education (BS)
- Special Education (BS)
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- Moderate Disabilities
- Severe Disabilities
- Community Services for Individuals with Disabilities
Boston University School of Education grants graduate degrees in the following academic concentrations:
- Bilingual Education (EdM, CAGS)
- Counseling
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- School Counseling (EdM, CAGS)
- Community Counseling (EdM, CAGS)
- Sport Psychology (EdM, CAGS)
- Counseling Psychology
- Sport Psychology (EdD)
- Curriculum and Teaching (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Developmental Studies
- Human Development and Education (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Literacy and Language Education (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Early Childhood Education (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Education of the Deaf (EdM, CAGS)
- Educational Media and Technology (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Elementary Education (EdM)
- English and Language Arts Education (EdM, MAT, CAGS, EdD)
- Health Education (EdM, CAGS)
- History and Social Science Education (EdM, MAT, CAGS, EdD)
- Human Resource Education (EdM, CAGS)
- International Educational Development (EdM)
- Latin and Classical Humanties (MAT)
- Master of Mathematics for Teaching (MMT)
- Mathematics Education (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Modern Foreign Language Education (EdM, MAT)
- Physical Education, Coaching (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Policy, Planning, and Administration (EdD)
- Community Education Leadership (EdM)
- Educational Adminisration (EdM, CAGS)
- Higher Education Administration (EdM, CAGS)
- Reading Education (EdM, CAGS)
- Science Education (EdM, MAT, CAGS, EdD)
- Special Education
- Community Services for Individuals with Disabilities (EdM, CAGS)
- Disability and Social Work (EdD)
- Justice, Education, and Disability (EdD)
- Moderate Disabilities (EdM, CAGS)
- Severe Disabilities (EdM, CAGS)
- Special Education Administration (EdM, CAGS, EdD)
- Teaching, Learning, and Disability (EdD)
- Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) (EdM, CAGS)
Notable Faculty, Past and Present
Maria Estela Brisk, former professor of education at Boston University from 1974 to 1999. She is a leading researcher and teacher educator in bilingualism, bilingual education, literacy development.Hardin Coleman, current dean of the School of Education at Boston University. His research focus is the development of school counselors, family therapy, supervision, advanced clinical courses, and spirituality in counseling. He has also published numerous articles appearing in the Journal of Counseling Psychology, The School Counselor, the Psychological Bulletin, and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice. His clinical focus is lower-income African American families with a particular interest in adolescents. He is the editor of the recently published Handbook on School Counseling.
Thomas Cottle, current professor of education at Boston University. A sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, he is the author of thirty books and more than five hundred and fifty articles, essays and reviews on topic in psychology, sociology, and adolescent development. He worked under Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson
Erik Erikson was a Danish-German-American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst known for his theory on social development of human beings. He may be most famous for coining the phrase identity crisis. His son, Kai T...
at Harvard University, and later held a position at The Children’s Defense Fund. In the 1970s and 1980s he was also the host of the syndicated Tom Cottle Show, where he interviewed guests on topics related to psychology. Interviewees included Andy Kaufman and Henry Fonda.
Bruce Fraser, current professor of education at Boston University. He studied under Noam Chomsky at MIT and in a series of papers beginning in 1990, he has set forth a theory of discourse markers, which defines this functional class and distinguishes them from other particles and similar lexical formatives, and is currently writing a book on the sub-class of contrastive discourse markers.
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux
Henry Giroux, born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, is an American cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies,...
, former professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, and is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory.
James Paul Gee
James Paul Gee
James Gee is a researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee is currently the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University...
, former professor of education from 1982–1988 and chair of the Department of Developmental Studies and Counseling. His research focus is in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. and recently he has written about video games and literacy.
Charles Glenn, current professor of education at Boston University and former dean ad interim. From 1970 to 1991 he served as director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education where he oversaw the administration of state funds for magnet schools and desegregation and was responsible for the nation's first state bilingual education mandates.
Roselmina (Lee) Indrisano, current professor of education and past-president of the International Reading Association and the Reading Hall of Fame. Her expertise is in literacy, particularly literacy instruction and assessment.
Mary Catherine O’Connor, current professor of education at Boston University. Her research and teaching interests are in linguistics and applied linguistics. She is currently principal investigator of a grant funded by the National Science Foundation to conduct crosslinguistic typological work on the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of determiner phrases.
Jeanne Paratore, current professor of education at Boston University. In 2002, she completed a three-year term as a member of the International Reading Association’s Board of Directors.
Evangeline Stefanakis, current professor of education at Boston University. She has helped lead major educational reform projects including work with the World Bank, UNESCO, the Massachusetts Department of Education, the Annenberg Research and Evaluation Team.
David Whittier, current professor of education at Boston University. His focus is computer-based multimedia, instructional television, and distance education and he serves as a consultant to PBS program developers and educational multimedia companies and is actively involved with other colleges and universities and the Massachusetts Department of Education in advising the commissioner of education and other policy agencies on technology issues for all levels of educators.
Leonard Zaichkowsky, current professor of education and medicine at Boston Universirty. He is a licensed psychologist who specializes in sport and performance psychology and he has consulted with the U. S., Canadian, and Australian Olympic Organizations, the NBA (Boston Celtics), Major League Baseball Players Association, NFL, NHL Players Association and Calgary Flames, and most recently with the Spanish World Cup Soccer Team.
Notable alumni
Robert Antonucci, SED’83, President of Fitchburg State CollegeLinda Applegarth, SED’71,’75, Director of Psychological Services at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility and Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology in both the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Cynthia Ballenger, SED'94 Author of Teaching Other People's Children: Literacy and Learning in a Bilingual Classroom and founder of the Brookline Teacher Research Group
Wendy J. Chamberlin, SED’71, former U.S. Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, currently President of the Middle East Institute
Mae Chu Chang, SED’79, Lead General Educator for East Asia and the Pacific Region of the World Bank
Gardner Dunnan, SED’65, Dean of Admission at Princeton University from 1978 to 1983.
Marylouise Fennell, RSM, SED’76, Senior counsel for the Washington, D.C.-based Council of Independent Colleges (CIC)
Karen Gallas, SED'81 Author of several books on literacy including Imagination and Literacy: A Teacher's Search for the Heart of Learning and The Languages of Learning: How Children Talk, Write, Dance, Draw, and Sing Their Understanding of the World
Nancy Dodd Harrington, SED’70, former Salem State College President
Clifford Janey, SED’84, Superintendent of Schools, Washington D.C.
Jon Saphier, SED'80 is the founder of Research for Better Teaching, a professional development organization dedicated to improving teaching and learning, and author of The Skillful Teacher.
Richard Schwab, SED’74, Dean of the Neag School of Education and Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut
External links
- Boston University School of Education
- Boston University
- Boston University Consortium
- Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character
- The Center for the Study of Communication and the Deaf
- Early Childhood Learning Laboratory
- Institute for Athletic Coach Education
- Journal of Education
- Jumpstart at Boston University
- Educational Media and Technology Program
- SEDGreen
- Upward Bound at Boston University