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Maria McKenna awarded Dockweiler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising

Maria McKenna, the director of the Transformational Leaders and AnBryce Scholars programs and a professor of the practice in the Education, Schooling, and Society program in the Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Department of Africana Studies, has been awarded the Dockweiler Award for...

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Advance Copy: Maria McKenna

Welcome to Advance Copy, a look at the people, perspectives, and scholarship of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, home to the University of Notre Dame’s initiatives advancing its long-standing commitment to the future of K-12 schools. Listen here Meet: Maria McKenna Just Published: The...

Education, Schooling, and Society Supplementary Major

Education, Schooling, and Society Named a Supplementary Major at Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame’s Academic Council voted unanimously this week to make Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) a supplementary major, allowing students to take ESS courses and complement their primary major in a more intensive way. ESS had previously been a 15-credit minor exploring the...

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Think. Pair. Share. with Dr. Maria McKenna

From the origins of Sesame Street and Photovoice, to the pedagogy of vulnerability, to equity, inclusion, and diversity as foundations of education Maria McKenna, Associate Professor of the Practice in the Department of Africana Studies and the Education, Schooling, & Society program at Notre Dame...

Paige Curley - 2020 Frabutt Prize Winner

Notre Dame senior awarded 2020 Frabutt Prize for Outstanding Education Research in the Community

Notre Dame senior Paige Curley has won the 2020 Frabutt Prize for Outstanding Education Research in the Community for her work bringing an expanded literary canon to students in early grades. Curley, an English major with minors in Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) and Latino Studies, won the...

November 10, 2015

Community-Based Courses in Education Generate Research and New Insights for Campus, City

A neighborhood development project encouraging creative expression and civic action among young South Bend residents has reached a milestone in its nearly five years of connection-making through a partnership between the city’s non-profit Neighborhood Resource Connection and the University of Notre...

New Leaders of ESS Minor Invite Undergraduates

Notre Dame’s interdisciplinary minor in Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) enters the 2012-2013 academic year with new leadership, inviting undergraduates to study K-12 learning and education from new perspectives. The new director of ESS is Nicole McNeil, ACE Associate Professor of Psychology...

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