The mission of the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy and Technology Studies is to prepare ethical and reflective practitioners, researchers, and scholars for illiork in K-12, higher education, and other educational settings. Through teaching and outreach the Department strives to promote the values, knowledge, and skills needed to improve education in the state and across the region; and through the scholarly activities of its faculty and students, contribute to national research. Leadership, in all areas, requires an understanding of curricular, instructional, supervisory, and administrative processes–as well as an awareness of the ever-changing social, philosophical, historical, political, cultural, legal, moral, and economic contexts of education. Programs offered through the Department meet this challenge by focusing on knowledge construction, learning, and pedagogy, and the development of professional practice that respects diversity, honors difference, and promotes social justice. The Department also maintains an on-going, open dialogue about school improvement through its association with various federal, state, and local educational agencies and professional organizations. The Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Technology Studies is a full member of the University Council for Educational Administration.
Department Head: Dr. Frankie Santos Laanan
Main Office: 301 Graves
| Educational Leadership | Higher Education Administration | Instructional Technology | Nurse Educator | Social and Cultural Studies |
MASTER OF ARTS
EDUCATIONAL SPECIALIST
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
feminist postructuralism
girl studies
curriculum theory
desgregation
pragmatism
teacher knowledge
Higher Education
Policy
Governance
critical race theory
disabilities studies
post-colonial theory
Graduate and postdoctoral education
Interdisciplinarity
Qualitative inquiry
College impact research
LGBTQ+ collegians’ experiences
Critical quantitative methodologies
sociology of education
charter school movement
policy studies
curriculum theory
existentialism
Organizational theory
School culture
International education
philosophy of education
liberal political theory
language policy
critical pedagogy
Leadership for Learning
School improvement
Meta-Analysis
history of education
history of educational psychology
epistemology
