Top Summer Schools in Education 2015

If you're looking to travel this summer, but want to simultaneously learn academic skills and promote your career, consider attending a summer school. These intensive courses of a few weeks to a couple of months are run by top universities to broaden the research skills and interests of junior researchers and students.

We've previously covered schools in various fields such as: Top Economics Summer Schools, Top Business Summer Schools, Top Public Health Summer Schools, Top Engineering Summer Schools, Top Environment & Sustainability Summer Schools, Top Political Science & International Relations Summer Schools,Top Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Summer Schools, Top Computer Science & Software Development Summer Schools, Top Finance & Accounting Summer Schools, Top Communication & Design Summer Schools, and Top Law Summer Schools.

Today we're presenting the best summer schools for those people working in education. Learn from some top professors in your field, make new friends, and have fun visiting a new city or location for the summer.

Boston School of Education

Country: United States

Duration of the Course: Jun 29, 2015 to Aug 7, 2015

Application Deadline: Jul 6, 2015

If you’re seeking to discover a new topic, reinforce practical skills, or obtain intensive training in a particular area, you’ll find an exciting range of opportunities for personal and academic enrichment. Boston Summer Term offers more than 700 courses in 70 subjects, also in Education.

Summer Education Research Program – University of Wisconsin

Country: United States

Duration of the Course: Jun 14, 2015 to Aug 7, 2015

Application Deadline: -

The SERP program is sponsored by the School of Education and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Graduate School. The program provides minority undergraduate students, interested in pursuing graduate studies in the academic fields within the School of Education, a valuable opportunity to engage in independent research guided by a faculty mentor. SERP aims to challenge each undergraduate scholar to weave issues of equity and diversity within his/her research topic. The program encourages undergraduate researchers to investigate how these issues impact various aspects of education found across eight departments in the School of Education.

Stanford Summer Teaching Institute

Country: United States

Duration of the Course: Jul 6, 2015 to Aug 7, 2015

Application Deadline: -

If you are a K-12 educator interested in learning new teaching strategies, developing materials to use in your classroom, and joining a vibrant community of practitioners, join this summer at Stanford University for the summer teaching institute. The courses offered include, among others, Transforming Teaching and Learning with Technology, Making Thinking Visible: In-Depth Learning through Arts Integration, Examining Global Change in the Era of Imperialism: Facilitating Critical Discourse, and Teaching the Mathematical Practices: Modeling with Math.

Higher Education in Emergencies at University of Geneva

Country: Switzerland

Duration of the Course: Jun 29, 2015 to Jul 7, 2015

Application Deadline: -

This summer school will provide participants with a conceptual framework for Higher Education in Emergencies by examining education as a human right and the education-fragility nexus, and by analysing higher education as a humanitarian response. Within that framework participants will then examine design and development of Higher Education opportunities by focusing on four different, yet interrelated dimensions: access to higher education and techno-pedagogical support, quality of virtual learning in fragility, mapping of higher education domains of relevance to learners in fragility within the framework of 21st Century Skills, and on-the-ground/in-the-field management/implementation models and interface to educational institutions.

Summer M. A. Program In Japanese Pedagogy At Columbia University

Country: United States

Duration of the Course: Jun 1, 2015 to Jul 31, 2015

Application Deadline: -

The Summer M. A. Program in Japanese Pedagogy is an extremely competitive program, attracting the best students and professors from around the world. Over a typical three-year period, you will be taught by professors from Columbia, Harvard and Princeton, as well as from other top universities in America, Japan, Europe and Australia. You will learn about the Japanese language as well as about teaching and acquiring foreign languages, and you will gain a highly marketable Masters degree from one of the world’s best universities.

The Eleventh Annual Summer Session on Contemplative Pedagogy

Country: United States

Duration of the Course: Aug 2, 2015 to Aug 7, 2015

Application Deadline: Apr 6, 2015

The Summer Session on Contemplative Pedagogy is an intensive week-long investigation into how contemplative practices support teaching, learning, and engaged action in post-secondary education. Facilitated by a multidisciplinary team of leading academics, it prepares higher education professionals with resources to support innovation in curriculum development, course design and the incorporation of contemplative awareness and practice within all aspects of higher education.

Council of Europe Summer School “Pedagogy makes the difference"

Country: France

Duration of the Course: Jun 28, 2015 to Jul 5, 2015

Application Deadline: -

The Pestalozzi Programme Summer School 2015 entitled “Pedagogy makes the difference” will look at the core of what being a teacher means: our pedagogy, what we feel and think about the relation we have with education, with knowledge, with school and above all with the learners. Participants will have the possibility to choose their personalised learning curriculum from a range of offers. Common activities throughout the eight days will allow participants to work together as a whole group, to learn together and to exchange ideas and experiences.

Introduction to social psychology - University of Cambridge

Country: United Kingdom

Duration of the Course: Jul 5, 2015 to Jul 11, 2015

Application Deadline: Jun 22, 2015

This course is designed as a general introduction to social psychology and focuses on how differing kinds of social contexts influence human thought and behaviour. The contexts to be considered include one-on-one interactions, small group settings, crowds, and societal norms. The specific topics have been chosen to give a broad ‘taste’ of the wide range of issues that social psychologists study. Aside from examining specific topics within the discipline the course will also explore how social psychology has developed in methodological and historical terms over the last century.

Georg Arnhold International Summer School on Education for Sustainable Peace

Country: Germany

Duration of the Course: Jun 22, 2015 to Jun 27, 2015

Application Deadline: Apr 1, 2015

The Summer School will focus on educational media, curricula and curriculum reform, educational activities, and diverse actors such as teachers, NGOs, UN bodies, communities and governments in the context of transitional justice processes and policies. Particular emphasis will be placed on measures supporting a conflict-sensitive approach to coming to terms with past conflict and violence. In creating a bridge between the concepts of transitional justice and education for sustainable peace, the Georg Arnhold Summer School aims to reflect on lessons learned and explore innovative ways to help engage children and youth in justice and peacebuilding efforts through education, fostering their capacity for critical thinking and supporting their social and political empowerment and the social cohesion of the societies they live in.