Academic Programs

 

The International Education Policy (IEP) program offers Master's and Doctoral specializations designed to provide an interdisciplinary understanding of today's educational policy and practice. The focus is on the relation of education to economic, political, and social development in both developing and developed countries at local, national, regional, and global levels. Attention is given both to formal schooling, from pre-school to higher education, as well as to nonformal, adult, and community-based education.

 

The Second Language Education program is an innovative, vibrant and growing unit at the University of Maryland. Housed in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (EDCI) in the College of Education, this program contains both Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Foreign Language Education (FLEd.). The Second Language Education program powerfully combines theory, research, and practice.

 

Centers

 

The International Center for Transcultural Education (ICTE) is an initiative of the Department of Education Policy and Leadership, College of Education at the University of Maryland College Park. The Center is a research organization that convenes networks of scholars, researchers, educators, oral historians, policy makers, and social advocates who are committed to the transformation of education policies, practices and perspectives through transcultural teaching and learning.