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2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Sep 14, 2024
 
2023-2024 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading


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The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading is guided by our School’s Mission/Vision  and organized by our faculty’s purposes, principles, commitments, and praxes. 

Our shared purposes are to
  • Support the self-determination of peoples to practice knowledge traditions 

  • Join in global efforts of collective educational liberation 

  • Contribute to societal transformation toward freedom through our full range of educational endeavors 

  • Cultivate rigorous intellectual praxis in educators 

Our shared principles are
  • Reciprocal and just relationality  

  • Common cause and collective responsibility 

  • Freedom through practice of knowledge traditions 

  • Refusal of systems and structures of domination 

We are committed to
  • Bold, collective study toward liberation 

  • Struggling together in the internal tensions of freedom work 

  • Learning, recovering, and recentering knowledge traditions historically excluded from our field 

  • Collectively imagining and practicing free alternatives and futures Collaboratively cultivating freedom and justice in praxis 

Our shared praxes are
  • Lifting up, studying, growing, and working across multiple liberatory knowledge and epistemic traditions 

  • Building community through dialecticism, dialogism, and difference 

  • Centering freedom stories and storytelling 

  • Prioritizing the obligations of purposes, principles, and commitments 

  • Embracing action and activism 

 

The department offers MAT, MEd EdD, and PhD degrees. 

Contact Information

Department Chair: Cassie Quigley
Email: CQuigley@pitt.edu

Associate Co-Chair: Linda Kucan
Email: LKucan@pitt.edu

Associate Co-Chair: Tinukwa Boulder
Email: TBoulder@pitt.edu
 

Department Address: 5900 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260

 

Degree and Certification Requirements

For additional degree requirement information for many of the following degrees, refer to the school sections on Degree Requirements.

 

Programs

    CertificateDoctoralGraduate CertificateJoint DegreeMaster’s

    Courses

      Teaching, Learning and Leading

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