It is the School of Education that is charged with the responsibility of education of human beings from childhood through adulthood. It is the School of Education that holds lifelong teaching and learning as its core values. Our commitment to lifelong teaching and learning demands an engagement in a study of pedagogy that links the insights of theory and experience to concerns for basic and best practice. Our concerns for practice demand linkages with our colleagues in elementary schools, secondary schools and non-school settings, as well as with our colleagues in other schools of the University. This commitment to lifelong teaching and learning also demands an environment where scholarship, too, is viewed as lifelong.
Scholarship is a necessary condition for continuous teaching and learning.
Our mission here is to create an environment where scholarship is encouraged, supported, realized and consistent with the University's criteria of excellence, yet reflective of the special demands of basic and best practice. Through the service of our faculty and graduates, equipped with a sound and rigorous knowledge and practice base, we can elevate the promise of individual lives. Through this achievement, we can elevate the quality of those workplace and post-secondary educational cultures into which America's youth must rightfully and responsibly enter.