Department of Child and Family Studies

Bob Rider served as dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences from 2004 to 2019. Prior to coming to Knoxville, he served as dean of the College…

Photography by Dani Rose Thibus Across the Southeast, early childhood educators are visiting UT’s Early Learning Center (ELC) to learn about designing early learning experiences for young children. A part…

Research from the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences is getting widespread attention. Take a look at some of our faculty’s latest work and where it has turned up…

Written by Whitney Heins Many children want to be an astronaut when they grow up. Or a professional basketball player. Or a famous singer. Not Ellen McIntyre. Growing up in…

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.…