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Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is the School of Education at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was established in 2001. It is part of the school of humanities and social sciences at the University of Cambridge.[1]

Type

2001

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~1000

Courses at the school include undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes, initial teacher education and training, and professional development studies:


Students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge also join one of the Cambridge Colleges.


The faculty is situated on Hills road, near Homerton College.

History[edit]

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge was formed by the merger of three prior departments: the Institute of Education, the Department of Education (initially on Trumpington street) and the teaching interests of Homerton College. The new faculty building was designed by Building Design Partnership, and was opened in 2005 by Prince Philip. It was named the Donald McIntyre Building in 2009.

Education, Equality & Development

Educational Leadership, Policy, Evaluation and Change

Pedagogy, Language and Culture in Education

Psychology & Education

Science, Technology & Mathematics Education

Faculty of Education has a number of research groups, research interests and research teaching centres which bring together academics in a variety of fields. Some faculty researchers and initial teacher educators are partnered with the University of Cambridge Primary School, opened in 2015, which is the first of its kind.


The academic groups are:


The research interest groups include:


The research and teaching centres are:


Previous research centres:

director, centre for children's literature

Maria Nikolajeva

Jason Arday

Diane Reay

head of the then department of education in the 1990s

Rex Walford

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