We do so by:

• Fostering a caring, respectful and humanizing community of engaged scholars and learners.
• Building capacity to embrace equity and social change, and to disrupt systemic racism, and other systemic injustices, as they take shape in everyday practice and structures, knowing that education and its effects are never neutral.
• Believing that systems change begins in powerful partnership with and for families, school and community educators, leaders and activists, teacher educators, researchers, and policy makers.
• Imagining and designing systems, policies, learning environments and practices that contribute to rich, engaging and transformative educational experiences for all learners.

Educational Studies is a leader in cutting-edge research and practice in reforming and transforming educational organizations and systems. As an intellectual community, we are known for cutting edge research and practice in teaching and teacher education across school subjects; critical educational studies; language, literacy and culture; learning across contexts; design and technologies; and educational leadership and policy. We do this work alongside youth, educators, schools, families, and communities, across contexts and lifespans.

We offer many pathways for engaging these areas through complementary research methods and frameworks. Our graduates are leaders in the work and practice of educational transformation, and in the public debate of complex understandings and roles of educational systems and organizations at all levels of society, from the local to the global.

If this is you, we need you here at Michigan!