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.

An ecosystem of K-12 teaching schools where UCLA partners to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.

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Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are defining features of UCLA Ed&IS and we embrace them as a source of strength.

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

History of Education

Sol Cohen

Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, 1966

Methods of Historical Research: written, oral, visual

Theory and Epistemology of Historiography: Postmodernism and the Linguistic Turn

Historiography of American Education: Critical Explorations

American Educational History: Film and Popular Culture as Texts

Historical Foundations of American Education

Modern and Post-modern developments in the Social Sciences

American Education in Film and Popular Culture: Textual Readings

“History, Memory, Community” Historical Studies in Education/ Revue d’Histoire de l’Education (Canada) 2005

“An Essay in the Aid of Writing History: Fictions of Historiography” Studies in Philosophy and Education, (Netherlands) 2004

“An Innocent Eye: The Pictorial Turn, Film Studies, and History”, History of Education Quarterly, (U. S. ), 2003

Challenging Orthodoxies: Toward a New Cultural History of Education (Peter Lang, New York), 1999