New program requirements for the major were submitted to Connecticut College faculty for review in Spring 2023. If approved, the new requirements will be in place beginning Fall 2023. This means that any student declaring a major in Educational Studies in Fall 2023 would need to complete the new requirements. For students who have already declared an Educational Studies major, you will be held to the catalog requirements for the academic year in which you declared; however, you may elect to complete the new requirements instead of the old requirements if you wish.
If you have questions, please email Dr. Isaac Gottesman, Chair, Education: igottesma@conncoll.edu
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Isaac Gottesman
Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education, Department Chair
Isaac Gottesman is a historian of education interested in the role of education in paths towards a more just society. His scholarly and teaching interests thus straddle the historical and the contemporary.
Karen Pezzetti
Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
Dr. Pezzetti’s teaching and scholarship explores identity, literacy, language, equity, and social change in Language Arts classrooms.
Isaac Gottesman, Lenore Tingle Howard '42 Associate Professor of Education
B.S., University of Oregon; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.Ed., University of Oregon; Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle
History of Education, Ideas, and Left Movements in the U.S., 1945- Present; Social and Political Theory; Critical Theories of Education
Karen Pezzetti, Visiting Assistant Professor of Education
B.A., Linguistics, University of California at Berkeley; Teaching Certificates in English, Social Studies, and Physical Education, University of California at Berkeley, M.A., Multicultural Urban Secondary English Education, University of California at Berkeley; Ph.D., Urban Education, Temple University
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Secondary English Classrooms; Social Foundations in Teacher Education; Multicultural and International Children’s and Young Adult Literature