2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading
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The Department of Teaching, Learning, and Leading is guided by the School of Education’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 andjustice 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
Contact Information
Department Chair: Sirry Alang
Email: salang@pitt.edu
Associate Co-Chair: Gary Gabel
Email: ggabel@pitt.edu
Department Address: 5900 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260
ProgramsConcentrationMajorMinor
CoursesInstruction and LearningTeaching, Learning and Leading
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