| The College of Education strives to prepare caring, competent, and qualified professionals for educational settings. The NUTN College of Education embraces the dual mission of improving the schools of today and inventing the schools of tomorrow. The goal is to provide contexts and opportunities for the strengthening of reflective and critical thinking, and for the acquisition of valuable insights into the nature of learning, thinking, personal and social development, and ways to support the growth of individuals and groups. Success is ensured through five core themes that serve as the philosophical foundation for our institutional standards; these themes： |
The Bronze Carving：Passing On
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Liberal Arts-based: Professionals develop dispositions, knowledge, and skills based on a sound liberal arts education.
Technology-based Collaboration: Professionals collaborate to achieve a shared vision that reflects scientifically-based interdisciplinary practice and public policy.
Social Justice: Professionals transform unjust and oppressive educational, social, economic, and political institutions into just and non-oppressive alternatives.
Diversity: Professionals value the unique cultural styles, interaction patterns, and beliefs of every individual and empower people to socially responsible self-determination.
Reflective Practice: Professionals cultivate a presence of mind that emphasizes continuous conscious analysis of values, assumptions, and strategies underlying their practice and the consequences of that practice on other human beings. |
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Educational Objectives
