The Center on Chinese Education, Teachers College Columbia University (CoCE) is aimed at contributing to a better understanding of education in China and to educational exchange between the United States and China. It seeks to achieve this mission through three categories of activities: research and development, education and training, as well as outreach and exchange. These activities will draw upon the historically special relationship between Chinese education and Teachers College, the interests and expertise of the faculty at Teachers College, as well as expertise and resources outside of Teachers College. Major funding for the Center's activities is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
Contact: Mun C. Tsang
E-mail: mct27@columbia.edu
The Center for Multiple Languages and Literacies (CMLL) focuses on the challenges occasioned by the multiplicity of languages and literacies in the 21st century. CMLL conducts and disseminates research on how different languages and literacies can be used as resources to advance human development, education, and intercultural understanding. CMLL also promotes dialogue across societies and groups through lectures, conferences, and the Internet. In addition, it supports educators in using research to inform practice. CMLL's work is elaborated in the context of a world characterized by greater flows of people, information, goods and services within and across national boundaries. CMLL is distinctive because of its emphasis on international and transcultural societies, with New York City as an expression of such a society, and its attention to educational systems, including schools, families, religious institutions, community centers, the workplace, and the media.
The Center for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at Teachers College envisions a regenerative world in which we achieve a balance between planet, people, and prosperity. Our mission is to promote learning, awareness, attitudes, and skills to work individually and collectively toward long-term sustainability of complex living systems. CSF supports and conducts original research, engages in research-practice partnerships, mentors and trains graduate students, and uses data to inform evidence-based policy, practice, and communication.
Contact: Oren Pizmony-Levy
Email: TCSustainability@tc.columbia.edu
The Elbenwood Center for the Study of the Family as Educator pursues various lines of systematic research and inquiry that bring the behavioral sciences to bear in illuminating the educational functions of the family and the relationships between the family and other educative institutions: schools, health and social service agencies, religious institutions, museums, libraries, the media. The Center's activities include research, conferences, symposia, seminars, and workshops. Current and recent topics considered at the Elbenwood Center include: social networks and educative styles of teenagers, the mediation of television by the family and television in cross-cultural perspective, family contexts of literacy, families and museums, family memories, multigenerational education, grandparents as educators, immigration, migration and family education. Faculty and students who participate in the Center come from various departments at Teachers College and elsewhere in Columbia University. The Center also maintains liaisons with other institutions through its projects and visiting scholars. Opportunities for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral research are available. An initial statement of the research agenda of the Elbenwood Center is set forth in the following volumes: The Family as Educator. Hope Jensen Leichter, (Ed.). New York: Teachers College Press, 1974. Families and Communities as Educators. Hope Jensen Leichter, (Ed.). New York: Teachers College Press, 1979.
Contact: Hope Jensen Leichter
E-mail: leichter@exchange.tc.columbia.edu