A long shot: anyone want to help? Grad school in education; interest in critical theory.

[exisinggg]

Thanks everyone.

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[lostreality]

I know at Upenn they have a great education program, and there are some people who do a joint phd in sociology and education (entering the educ program and then adding sociology later) and then go on to be sociology profs.

[madamtruffle]

I know several people who have done the education program at Penn - they all loved it!

[exisinggg]

yeah, it looked liked a nice program, before they dinged me! *shakes fist at the sky*

Applied; interviewed; rejected from UPenn :-/

[exisinggg]

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[ennifer_jay]

I will be lurking this post because I am looking for a similar master's degree. :) My dream school is currently University of Toronto for Sociology and Equity Issues in Education.

[exisinggg]

Are you Canadian and do you want to enter academia in Canada? canadians, australians, and brits produce tons of "critical education studies" type of journals, which is quite a curious phenomenon! my interpretation of why that is is due to the availability of funding streams -- most of the U.S. funding probably comes from the Department of Ed/NSF/other government organizations and the grants might lend themselves to less interpretive and more quantitative studies.

[ennifer_jay]

No, I'm not. :( I'm from the US.

[exisinggg]

Well, that's trickier. I'd look into UIUC, Indiana-Bloomington, Wisconsin, UCLA, and other programs mentioned in this thread. GLGLGL.

[tisiphone]

I know I'm always plugging Umass Amherst here (srsly!) but the education program there is great - my advisor graduated from the social justice education program, and it's as critical as you might want.

[exisinggg]

Yeah, the funding is a big question mark at TC. And yes, these are the schools I got into this year.

[flamingjune07]

If these are places you've already applied and gotten into, it's between Irvine and Urbana-Champaign. I don't really know anything about Urbana-Champaign, but Irvine seems like a great place to be for critical theory. (I say this as someone aware of their English and their Philosophy department, with very little knowledge about what education is like as a field, so grain of salt and all that).

[exisinggg]

hey! yes, thank you! irvine's anthro and social theory program are very nice and i could take and enjoy classes within those departments. the education program, on the other hand, is brand new and undeveloped. so it could potentially be a "what you make of it" type of situation... or, it could be a complete disaster. =/