The world in which TC was created in 1887 faced challenges much like those of today. Industrialization and technology were creating both enormous wealth and deep economic divisions and uncertainty. A vast new influx of people was pouring into U.S. cities from rural areas and from other nations around the world. Communities were grappling with complex new problems of health, race relations, education, and crime.
It all began humbly enough. In 1880, Dodge created a “kitchen garden” school in Greenwich Village to teach cooking, sewing, hygiene, and other practical arts to poor, immigrant women. As the effort took shape, she realized that a new kind of pedagogy was in order-teaching that reflected an understanding of learners’ backgrounds and of how to present material in relevant, meaningful ways.
By the turn of the century, under new dean James Earl Russell, the vision for Teachers College had expanded yet again, marrying humanitarian concerns with a broad-based scientific approach to human development premised on the interrelationship among three broad areas: education, psychology and health.
In the 1970s and 1980s, TC luminaries such as education philosopher Maxine Greene and psychologist and urban education authority Edmund Gordon championed a social justice vision of providing all learners with access to the arts, afterschool programs and other supports.
And during the past 25 years, TC has led the fight in all fields to create a smarter, healthier and more equitable world. Responding to the growing need for educational, psychological and health services that reach beyond the traditional school environment, the College has designed programs for educators who will work in daycare centers, family assistance agencies, museums, libraries, businesses, nonprofits, telecommunications facilities, the United Nations, and other non-traditional locations.
TC’s three highly complementary and interrelated areas of study - education, psychology and health - span more than 65 programs of study. Our past and current accomplishments constitute a living legacy, a foundation from which we will continue to meet society’s needs and anticipating the needs of the future.
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