- To prepare innovative leaders in exceptional student education
who will understand their own critical role as agents of
positive change in urban special education and other programs
and as advocates for quality services and programs for children
with special needs and their families.
- To prepare students to teach at the university level.
- To educate students about the knowledge foundations supporting
policies and practices in special education.
- To educate students about the legal, ethical, and historical
contexts that shape current discourses about policy and
practice and in which the profession has developed .
- To develop a broad understanding of the nature of inquiry
and different research traditions.
- To educate students to understand and respect alternative
approaches to inquiry.
- To prepare students to be competent and confident in the
pursuit of sound and rigorous research within their chosen
genre of inquiry.
- To offer a quality research education that provides students
with basic literacy required to understand, interpret, and
appraise inquiry conducted within different genres'.
- To create a context within which technical and conceptual
foundations of research methods are learned and reinforced
by an ongoing mentored research internship .
- To prepare students to be competent in integrating the
knowledge bases of special education, teacher, education,
and related fields in order to become effective teachers
for the range of professionals who work with children with
special needs and their families.
- To prepare students, through mentorship and collaborative
work with faculty, to value the importance of participating
actively in relevant professional organizations within the
field.
- To prepare students to become effective communicators
capable of and comfortable with intellectual exchange in
professionals forums and their own work settings.
- To promote and develop capacities for scholarly writing,
including grantsmanship, writing for professional journals
and texts, and developing papers for conference presentations.
- To provide all our students with a high choice milieu,
ensuring the highest level of responsiveness to individual
students professional goals and anticipated career pathways.
- To create a context within which students have access
to and benefit from the full range of faculty expertise
and interests within the department.
- To prepare persons to work in school-university partnerships for the purpose of educational renewal.
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