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Education

Department of Education

UCLA’s Education Department is consistently ranked among the top four in the nation and as the top Education program among public research universities. We are focused on our mission as a public research university: to bring our extensive knowledge resources toward addressing the most critical issues facing our society.
Become part of our exciting work at the forefront of reshaping our nation’s next-generation education systems.
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At UCLA Education, we are out in the community, engaged in the urgent transformative work at the intersection of theory, practice, and policy. You’ll be working with top experts in the nation who share a commitment to social justice and ensuring educational equity.

Contribute your ideas, your skills, your unique perspective, your diverse background—they’re all welcome here.

Programs

Department of Education Academic Programs

The Department of Education offers several degrees in rigorous, interdisciplinary programs that provide flexibility for a diverse student body united by its passion for education.
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Information Studies

Department of Information Studies

We argue that the principal goal of research and practice in information studies is to support the making of culture and community in an increasingly pluralist, globalizing world.
At the forefront of preserving, organizing, and rethinking information for the 21st century, UCLA’s Department of Information Studies has been defining and reshaping the library, archival, and information sciences for over 50 years.
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Rather than focusing on particular context-specific technologies and institutions, we focus on people as actors and agents in their worlds (instead of as users, patrons, or consumers); on communities as networks of belonging, that foster agency and the construction of identity among their members; on culture as both the means for, and the result of, people’s cultivation of their capabilities; and on artifacts as the objects through which culture is preserved, reproduced, and re-imagined.

This approach is necessarily pluralist and global in scope: pluralist in the sense that multiple ways of being, doing, and knowing are assumed to coexist; and global in the sense that these ways of life interact across cultural boundaries of all types.

We share a strong, specific ethical commitment to the advancement of social equity, social justice, and individual and community empowerment, and to the promotion of diversity, accountability, and intellectual openness.

Contribute your ideas, your skills, your unique perspective, your diverse background—they’re all welcome here.

Department of Information Studies Academic Programs

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