Pilihan program

Ringkasan program

This program provides opportunities for graduate students to investigate participatory educational and organizing practices that link learning to the challenge of facilitating global sustainability. This program helps scholars and practitioners prepare for adult and extension educational leadership and professional roles in domestic and international community-based, non-governmental, and governmental organizational settings. Areas of expertise and inquiry include: participatory practices in research, community development, and adult education; public scholarship, university extension/outreach, and community organizing in the United States; international adult and extension education; learning in adulthood; educational planning and program development; continuing professional education; staff development; and health issues related to the education of adults. This program develops interdisciplinary programs of empirical and theoretical inquiries of adult, extension, and/or international education. Using a reflective practice approach to professional development, graduate programs of study include: the study of ethical, political, social, empirical, and theoretical dimensions of practical educational endeavors; critical analyses of current and historical practices in adult, extension, and international education; the theoretical and practical integration of adult, extension, and international education with other disciplinary endeavors; and the democratic praxis of education in a global environment. This program is to connect learning, education, and organizing research and practice to other professional disciplines to develop interdisciplinary approaches to the challenges of promoting global sustainability.

Modul program

The modules include EDUC 2200 Community Learning and Service Partnerships, EDUC 6330 Program Planning in Adult and Extension Education, EDUC 6670 Discourse Analysis in Education, EDUC 6680 Narrative Inquiry in Social Science and Action Research, EDUC 6800 Foundations of Adult Extension Education, EDUC 6810 Democracy, Science, and Education, EDUC 6820 Community Education and Development, EDUC 6850 Training and Development: Theory and Practice, EDUC 6940 Social Learning in/and Community, EDUC 7180 Adult Learning and Development, EDUC 7830 Farmer-Centered Research and Extension.

Persyaratan masuk bagi mahasiswa internasional

Students seeking admission must have completed a bachelors’ degree. International students must take the GRE exam. Students whose native language is not English must take the TOEFL and have the official score reported to Cornell from the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Educational Testing Service provided a new Internet-based Test (iBT) version of the TOEFL. This new version will test all four language skills important for effective communication: writing, listening, reading, and speaking. Each section has its own score, and the Graduate School has set the following minimum scores for admissions: Writing: 20; Listening: 15; Reading: 20; Speaking: 22. Students will continue to accept scores for computer based (cBT) (213 minimum) and paper based (550 minimum) versions of the TOEFL that were taken within two years of the date.

Kualifikasi

Doktor (S3)

Institusi penerbit ijazah

Cornell University

Nama jurusan

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Education