Welcome to the Department of Counseling Educational Psychology, and Special Education (CEPSE)!

This web site is your gateway to information about all of the different programs that CEPSE encompasses.

The Department of Counseling Educational Psychology, and Special Education (CEPSE) consists of faculty and graduate students committed to the study of human learning and development across the life span.

Learning is the central purpose of our schools. Current efforts to change the way all subjects are taught entail radically different views of learning and knowledge. Knowledge cannot be perceived as a static entity to be delivered by teachers and absorbed through practice by students.

Rather, knowledge and learning must be seen as dynamic, powerful, and situated within communities of knowers. These new views of knowledge and learning offer teachers powerful insights into the processes of student learning. 

CEPSE faculty and graduate students bring an important array of conceptual, technical and therapeutic perspectives to the study of learning in a wide variety of contexts.

Richard Prawat, Department Chair