Education

Basic Structure of the Department

• A student CANNOT major in Education.
• The Education department offers ONE minor, the Human Development and Education minor, which is designed to help students to build and use an integrated, multilevel understanding of learning and development based on critical analysis of theory, policy, and empirical data from education, neuroscience, and psychology. This minor explores how children grow, acquire language, think, reason, learn a variety of skills and knowledge, and how they conceptualize their social, emotional, and moral worlds.
• The Education department is focused on exploring the complex connections among human development, learning, and teaching, consistent with the new field of mind, brain, and education. Dartmouth is on the cutting edge of this movement that helps students build a multifaceted, integrated, interdisciplinary, and deep understanding of the developing child, learning, and education based on critical analysis of theory, practice, policy, and empirical data.
• EDUC 1: The Learning Brain, is the best overall introduction to the ways in which understandings of the mind and brain are applied to the field of Education. The course is a requirement for the Human Development and Education minor and for teacher certification, and recommended for all those interested in the field of Education.
• The Education department offers a variety of research opportunities in how children learn and what best promotes learning in important content areas.
• The Teacher Education Program: The department offers a Teacher Certification Program in which a student can earn a teaching license. Students earn a teaching certificate in conjunction with a major in a specific discipline, making them eligible to teach at the primary or secondary level (K-12).
• Please contact Education Department Administrator Ms. Sandy White (646-3462, Sandra.White@dartmouth.edu) with any questions about these requirements.

Information for the First-Year Student Interested in Pursuing Studies in Education

• EDUC 1: The Learning Brain, is the best overall introduction to the department, and is highly recommended for anyone interested in the Education curriculum.
• For more information please see the Education webpage and contact Education Department Administrator Ms. Sandy White (646-3462, Sandra.White@dartmouth.edu).

Current Enrollments, Class Size, and Distributives

The ORC

The Education Homepage