Welcome
Welcome to the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I)!
We offer high quality learning programs to prepare education professionals for positions in schools, higher education, and the workplace. Undergraduates in C&I may enroll in programs leading to teacher licensure in elementary education or social studies education. At the graduate level, students may pursue advanced degrees in education disciplines including curriculum studies, education for work and community, educational technology, literacy and language education, mathematics education, science education, and social studies education.
Our faculty conducts research that links theory to practice leading to new discoveries in many aspects of the teaching and learning process across a wide variety of educational contexts. C&I serves the needs of society through engagement with our local, state, national, and international communities. We value collaboration, community, diversity, global perspectives, inquiry, and reflection, and we aspire to provide educational leadership in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and technology-rich world.
Sincerely,
Phillip VanFossen
Head of the Department of Curriculum & Instruction
News
- U.S. News and World Report recently ranked Purdue's College of Education graduate program 37th among graduate programs in the nation for 2012. For more information, read the report.
- Melanie Shoffner was recently awarded the Kenneth T. Kofmehl Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. She has also been invited to join Microsoft's Partners in Learning for Higher Education Advisory Board.
- Ron Carr, PhD student in Learning Design and Technology, was one of five recognized with a Focus Award in recognition of outstanding contributions to Purdue's commitment to disability accessibility and diversity. Read about Ron in Purdue Today.
- Wanda Fox, Associate Professor of Family and Consumer Sciences, was awarded the Career and Technical Educator of the Year for 2011 at the annual awards dinner for the Indiana Association for Career and Technical Education.
- JoAnn Phillion, Professor of Curriculum Studies, was awarded a 2012-2013 Community of Service Learning Faculty Fellows Grant from Purdue's Office of the Associate Vice President for Engagement.
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