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The ��������/ Education Department centers on teaching and learning as fundamental to human life and growth, and fundamentally connected to struggles for understanding, liberation, and justice.  With a primary focus on relationships, facilitation, and change as the heart of the study and practice of education, we address our students as past, current, and future stakeholders of public education systems, as participants in many other systems and structures, and as prospective teachers, school leaders, researchers, policy makers, activists, artists, and theorists. Defining teaching and learning as social, political, and cultural as well as personal activities, the Education Department challenges students to explore the relationships among schooling and other contexts of learning, human development, and social change as they gain knowledge and skills of educational theory and practice. 

See the  for an overview of the major and minor options, requirements, declaration processes, and course offerings.

"So, every day, I’m challenging myself, 'What are you doing, bell, for the creation of the beloved community?' Because that’s the underground, local insistence that I be a fundamental part of the world that I’m in.’’ — bell hooks

Fall 2024 Welcome Back & Course Openings

Welcome to the new semester! We in the Education Department are looking forward with joy to working with you.

For our second full year of the Education major, we continue to have four exploratory entry point courses, and are offering several capstone options. You can find our full course listings for the 2024-25 Academic Year!

While this new system settles in, we are taking a responsive approach with the capstones this year, such that students not yet ready to complete the major or minor course of study can still take a 300-level course with the understanding that they will be flexibly designed to meet students where they are. 

For those seeking an Education course this Fall, there is space in Education 105: Education Studies: Theories, Practices, & Possibilities; Education 275: Emergent Multilingual Learners; Education 308: Inquiries into Black Study, Language Justice; and Education/SOWK 676: Making Space for Learning. 

You can find out more about these courses in the trico course guide, or by emailing the instructor directly!

To a meaningful and nourishing Fall together,

The Education Department

Education Department COVID Policy & Guidelines

The Education Department's COVID masking policy is consistent with the �������� and Haverford College's policies overall. Our course classrooms are mask-friendly, meaning masks are welcome, but not required, unless the instructor working with the class decides to create a class requirement informed by the class community’s needs. We will continue to emphasize care and consideration for each other's needs and desires, and make ongoing decisions, centering these.

When students are attending their educational internships, they should learn and follow the COVID guidelines of the school or program community. 

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Prospective Students

Check out the Education page in Majors, Minors, and Concentrations.