Greetings!
The Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations (ELC) is concerned with issues of educational theory, cultural analysis, educational leadership and school organization, educational policy, and curriculum studies. The faculty members share a sociopolitical perspective that undergirds our scholarship, teaching, and service. We are committed to the development of a just and caring democratic society in which schools serve as centers of inquiry and forces for social transformation that foster social, economic, and educational equity by honoring differences in race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual preference. The ELC faculty seek to prepare thoughtful and effective leaders in education through programs of study that are interdisciplinary in focus and that emphasize questions of moral concern, the cultural context of education, and a reconstructive vision for excellent and equitable schooling. Our purpose is to create educational leaders who work with parents, staff, students, and communities to develop critical understandings of the assumptions, beliefs, and regularities that support schooling and who identify and create practices that allow schools to function more fully as democracies while preparing students for democracy.
It is an honor to be associated with such a talented group of compassionate professionals. We are committed to embodying our shared commitments in all of our actions, with social justice and equity as the expressed centerpiece of who we are.
The department offers four graduate programs: Master of School Administration, Specialist in Education in educational leadership, Doctor of Education in educational leadership, and Doctor of Philosophy in curriculum and teaching with a concentration in cultural studies.
If you have an interest in learning about our programs, please contact the ELC program coordinators. Their contact information follows.
Master of School Administration (M.Ed.)
Dr. Joanne Chesley, Coordinator
jrchesle@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-4095
(More information is available at http://www.uncg.edu/elc/msa.html)
Specialist in Education in educational leadership (Ed.S.)
Dr. Rick Reitzug, Coordinator
ucreitzu@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-3460
(More information is available at http://www.uncg.edu/elc/edseduleadership.html)
Doctor of Education in educational leadership (EdD)
Dr. Rick Reitzug, Coordinator
ucreitzu@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-3460
(More information is available at http://www.uncg.edu/elc/eddeduleadership.html)
Doctor of Philosophy in curriculum and teaching with a concentration in cultural studies (PhD)
Dr. Glenn Hudak
gmhudak@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-3465
(More information is available at http://www.uncg.edu/elc/phdculturalstudy.html)
If you have an interest in learning more about the ELC Department, please contact me directly using my contact information above.
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