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- Program Coordinator: Martha Merrill | mmerril@kent.edu | 330-672-2580
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While all attendees are responsible for planning and booking their own travel plans, the conference team is able to provide some suggestions based on previous experience. For further details, you may contact Jennifer Hebebrand at KentState_FlorenceConference@kent.edu.
The Disability Studies and Community Inclusion graduate certificate prepares students to be leaders in promoting the inclusion of people with disabilities in all aspects of life and across the lifespan. The focus is to understand the nature, meaning, health, social and political implications and consequences of disability within the context of a diverse and global world.
Graduates of the Ph.D. program will have the knowledge, critical understandings and interpretive skills to analyze and assess educational policies, theories and practice, and to lead and promote innovation in education, whether in academia or private, public, formal, nonformal or informal settings social contexts, and agencies.
The Master of Education degree in Cultural Foundations, offered fully online or on campus, explores education through a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives: philosophy of education, history of education, sociology of education, comparative/international education, anthropology of education, gender studies, multicultural studies and religious studies.
Graduates of the Master of Arts in Cultural Foundations will have the knowledge and skills to critique and interpret educational theories, programs and practices, and to promote innovation in education, whether in the private, public, formal, non-formal or informal setting institutional settings and social contexts. The M.A. program has a thesis component which is tailored to individual research interests.