Experience the Power of the Arts in Education
Develop inquiry skills through research methods and arts-based courses in this Educational Specialist (Ed.S.) program that will enhance your interest in the arts, critical pedagogy, multicultural and equity education, and teacher leadership.
Become more comfortable with the creative process while taking your education and expertise to the next level, and learn to think as an artist, leader, researcher, critic, and advocate for change. Explore parent and community involvement as a factor in providing students with an equitable education.
Courses cover subjects that include:
- Integrated arts
- Arts-based research
- Drama for community leadership
- Social action and the arts
- Power of the image
- Research in action
Key program information for Educational Specialist in Integrated Teaching through the Arts:
- 33 credits
- Aligned to NBPTS, Common Core, and state standards
- Classes held at selected off-campus sites in an intensive weekend, cohort-based format
- Last course includes action research project
- Teachers work on self-designed action research project
- Program can be completed in approximately two years
View or download the program of study [PDF] for the ITA Educational Specialist.
SAMPLE PROGRAM COURSE
EARED 7107 Social Action and the Arts: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Knowledge
This course will explore the arts as a medium for critical inquiry. Students will investigate the relationship between the transmission of cultural knowledge and historical constructions of power and privilege in the context of educational leadership and school reform. This course will provide participants with the opportunity to translate theoretical analysis into arts integrated action research and leadership projects developed in their own school settings.
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Maureen Creegan-Quinquis
Associate Professor
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