Connections

The Department of Education is connected to other areas throughout the university and surrounding communities. Some faculty have dual appointments in education and other departments; some conduct research collaboratively across the Schools of Arts and Sciences and Engineering. Here are a few examples of programs, departments, and organizations with which we have ongoing affiliations.
Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO)
Institute for Research on Learning and Instruction (IRLI)
Diversity and Inclusion Leadership Studies
Museum Studies
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts (SMFA)
Partner Schools and Community Affiliations
Many of our M.A.T. candidates student teach in partner schools in Boston, Cambridge, Malden, Medford, and Somerville or participate in the Writer's Den in Malden. School Psychology students work in partner schools in Boston, Cambridge, Lawrence, Wayland, and Concord. Museum Education students intern at institutions such as the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum and Museum of Fine Arts. Makerspaces have been created and cultivated by Department of Education faculty and students such as Nedlam's Workshop.
Tufts Departments
Department of Education faculty teach courses or are affiliated in the following departments:
- Biology
- Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT)
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Chemistry
- Child Study and Human Development
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- History
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics
- Sociology
- Tisch College for Civic Life
- Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies