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The Faculty of Education and Social Work specialises in teaching and research in the fields of Education and Social Work. In addition to conducting research in these two areas the faculty offers a wide range of undergraduate, postgraduate and professional programs.

History
Education and Social Work Merger

The Faculty of Education and Social Work was established in January 2003, amalgamating two schools from the former Faculty of Education and a new school, Social Work and Policy Studies - which was formerly part of the Faculty of Arts. In January 2006 it was re-structured to form a one-school faculty.

The first teacher training colleges in Australia were established in Sydney in the late 19th century. In 1906 several teachers colleges were amalgamated to form Sydney Teachers College at Blackfriars, in close proximity to the University. In the University's Faculty of Arts lectureships in Education had been established by the turn of the century. In 1922 Sydney Teachers College moved onto the grounds of the university (into the current Old Teachers College building), where it remained until the 1980s as a separate institution to the University.

The first chair in Education at the University was established in 1911, when Alexander Mackie, the foundation principal of Sydney Teachers College, became a professor in Education in the Faculty of Arts. In 1940 Education was established as a department in the Faculty of Arts, and continued to be part of that Faculty until 1986, when it became a Faculty in its own right, comprising three schools: the School of Teaching & Curriculum Studies, the School of Educational Measurement, Psychology & Technology, and the School of Social and Policy Studies in Education. The founding foundation Dean of the Faculty of Education was Professor Cliff Turney.

In 1990 the Sydney Institute of Education (formerly Sydney Teachers College, and then part of the multi-campus Sydney College of Advanced Education) was amalgamated with the Faculty of Education, greatly increasing the size of the Faculty's staff and student bodies. The enlarged Faculty moved into two new Education buildings adjacent to the refurbished Old Teachers College building in 1994.

In 1998 the Faculty of Education was re-structured to form 3 new schools: the School of Educational Psychology, Literacies and Learning, the School of Professional Studies, and the School of Social, Policy and Curriculum Studies.

In 2001 the Faculty was again re-structured to form two schools: the School of Development and Learning, and the School of Policy and Practice.