Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

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Department of Education 2023 Information Sessions

Department of Information Studies Programs

Department of Information Studies 2023 Information Sessions

Learn more about the undergraduate and graduate academic programs we offer, when program information sessions are being offered and how to apply.

Department of Education

Bullying

Media and Technology

STEM

Douglas Kellner

Social Sciences and Comparative Education

Distinguished Research Professor of Education

Ph.D., Philosophy, Columbia University, 1973

DAAD Fellowship, University of Tubingen, 1969-1971; study in Paris, 1971-1972

BA, Doane College, 1965 [Junior Year, University of Copenhagen]

Fellow, Sudikoff Family Institute for Education & New Media – 2003-04

Kellner, D., & Pierce, C. (Eds.).  (2010). Philosophy, Psychoanalysis and Emancipation, Volume 5 of the Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse. New York, NY: Routledge.

Kellner, D. (2009). Cinema Wars: Hollywood Film and Politics in the Bush/Cheney Era. Oxford, England: Wiley-  Blackwell.

Hammer, R., & Kellner, D. (Eds.). (2009). Media/Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing.

Kellner, D., Lewis, T., Pierce, C., & Cho, D. (Eds.). (2009). Marcuse’s Challenge to Education. Lanham, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Kellner, D.,  Lewis, T.,  & Pierce, C. (2009). On Marcuse: Critique, Liberation, and Reschooling in the Radical Pedagogy of Herbert Marcuse. Rotterdam, the Netherlands: Sense Publishers.