Boston University School of Education

Boston University
School of Education

The School of Education Building
on Commonwealth Avenue
Type Private
Established 1918
Dean Hardin L.K. Coleman
Academic staff
29
Students 1,086
Location Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Campus Urban
Website www.bu.edu/sed

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 L.K. Coleman, Ph.D. SED has more than 31,000 alumni, 29 full-time faculty[1] and both undergraduate and graduate students.[2] Boston University School of Education was ranked 45th in the nation in 2016 by U.S. News & World Report in their rankings of graduate schools of education.[3] The School of Education is a member institution of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE).[4]

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." [5]

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 of Education 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, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Robert Pinsky, Lee Shulman, and Elie Wiesel. In 2009, the Journal of Education became a peer-reviewed publication.[6]

Programs of study

Boston University School of Education offers a Bachelor of Science undergraduate degree in ten programs 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.

Within these two departments, offerings include 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.[7]

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 (IMC) 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.[7]

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.[8]

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, multimedia classrooms, telecommunications, photography, audio-visual materials, and video technology[9]

Other programs

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

References

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