The Educational Studies program offers graduate students in the Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education an option for academically rigorous interdisciplinary learning, pragmatically designed to suit their own individual gifts, backgrounds, and goals as educators. Distinctively grounded in arts, humanities, and social sciences, the Educational Studies field aims to impart practical wisdom and purposeful imagination to the moral work of educating for social justice, nonviolence, and democratic life—wherever such educating may occur, locally or globally.

More than just required courses, Educational Studies graduate programs at the University of Oklahoma offer a variety of learning experiences to compose a coherent, practical, and scholarly apprenticeship in the field, tailored to each student’s own special interests and talents. With extensive experience as teachers and leaders in schools, colleges, universities, and other public-service settings, Educational Studies faculty members mentor their graduate students as apprentice scholars developing personally meaningful and morally purposeful programs of original inquiry with topically diverse emphases in philosophy, history, and sociology of education.