Admissions for Social Foundations is currently on hold.

Contact Dr. Robert Wicklein, our Graduate Coordinator, with any questions.

His email address: wickone@uga.edu

MISSION
The Ph.D. program in Social Foundations of Education was developed to contribute to the University of Georgia and its College of Education mission and goals by serving a this major teacher education institution in all of its graduate programs and by providing an interdisciplinary terminal degree focused on this institution’s contemporary strategic goals and initiatives of Diversity, Multiculturalism, Internationalism, and Technology. As part of the Department of Workforce Education, Leadership, and Social Foundations, the Ph. D. program contributes to the unit mission and goals in adding to the consideration of development-issues at all levels, policy-practice issues in education and related sectors, and in workforce/societal demands in the United States and in other countries.

The Ph.D. program in Social Foundations of Education is grounded in several academic disciplines (history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political theory of education) and scholarship in the program also encompasses a range of interdisciplinary fields including comparative and international education, policy studies, development studies, environmental justice, and leadership or administration in the education sector and its sub -sectors.  While the faculty associated with the program subscribe to no single methodology or ideology, the program does contain a critical focus, lending itself to consideration of issues pertaining to issues of race, race relations, gender, national origin, religion, social justice, equity and equality.  In this manner, the Ph.D. in Social Foundations exemplifies the missions of the College of Education and the University of Georgia to promote diversity, internationalism, and multiculturalism.