Tanja Sargent Faculty Diversity Collaborative Peer Network profile

Tanja Carmel Sargent, Ph. D. is an associate professor of Education, Culture, and Society in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy, and Administration (ETPA). She is currently the Director of the Rutgers Graduate School of Education EdD program and founding faculty member of the Global Citizenship Virtual Exchange Consortium which is a group of faculty from nine countries who are engaged in ongoing collaboration around research and student virtual exchange. Sargent’s research has focused on curriculum and pedagogical reforms in China. From 2016-2018 Sargent was a Shanxi Province “Hundred Talents Program” Distinguished Professor affiliated with the Shanxi Center for Partnerships Promoting Quality and Innovation in Basic Education Research. From 2017-2024, she assisted in organizing Rutgers GSE Faculty Trips to China that were funded by the Shanxi Center for Partnerships Promoting Quality and Innovation in Basic Education Research. She is also co-editor of the journal Chinese Education and Society.

Sargent's current interests lie in research about Global Citizenship Education and global teacher education. Her most recent co-authored publication aims to incorporate Chinese classical and contemporary thought about "world-ness" into our conceptualizations of global citizenship education. The publication is entitled: "From “All under Heaven” to “Humanity’s Common Destiny”: Implications of Conceptions of World-ness in Chinese Traditional and Contemporary Thought for Global Citizenship Education."