The study of education explores the complex connections between human development, learning, and teaching. It impacts the lives of children and adults, as well as any professional or personal pursuit that involves learning and teaching.
One of the main goals of the Department of Education at Dartmouth is to begin bridging the gaps among developmental and educational research, practice, and policy. The six-course education minor is designed to help students build and use an integrated, multilevel understanding of learning and development based on critical analysis of theory, policy, and empirical data from education, neuroscience, and psychology. Students taking courses in education at Dartmouth explore how children grow, acquire language, think, reason, learn a variety of skills and knowledge, and how they conceptualize their social, emotional, and moral worlds.

