Department of Child and Family Studies

Bilingual children do not have more advantages than monolingual children when it comes to executive function, which includes remembering instructions, controlling responses, and shifting swiftly between tasks, according to a…

UT’s Early Learning Center, an early childhood education facility and child development laboratory affiliated with the Department of Child and Family Studies in UT’s College of Education, Health, and Human…

For the second year in a row, UT was rated top among Tennessee institutions for preparing teachers to work in the state, according to the 2018 Teacher Preparation Report Card. UT…

By Sarah Plemmons During the summers of 2016 and 2017, a UT professor traveled to the Southern Highlands of Ethiopia to observe families from the small community of Doko. Department…

Although popular images of marriage conjure up notions of romance and passion as the keys to relationship success, couples whose relationships endure for years—even decades—often cite something different as key to their happiness: compassionate love.

The UT Early Learning Center (ELC) embarked on an initiative focused on nature-based experiences a few years ago and is passionately committed to exploring this work in our own program.…

Spotlight on Assistant Professor Julia Jakel

This summer, the Early Learning Center hosted its first annual Early Learning Institute, Cultivating Our Natural Learning Community. During the two-day institute, more than one hundred educators from across the country participated in…

By Brooks Clark During her time as an undergraduate in Child and Family Studies at UT, Kimberly Schlapman sang lead on some good old honky-tonk tunes for the Buttermilk Cowboys…