教育理论、文化和国际研究（TCI）是教育政策研究专业化，专注于教育的理论、哲学和意识形态基础以及教育发生的社会和文化背景。以前被称为“教育基金会”，TCI专业在不同的地方、国家和国际环境下，在哲学、历史、社会学和其他社会科学方面对其教育研究的方法进行深入的研究。因此，伦理学，认识论学，历史学，政治经济学，社会学，社会政治理论，比较教育和文化研究都提供系统地对教育进行系统研究的概念镜头。因此，TCI专业将探索教育与经济，政治和文化系统之间的联系，并使学生了解一系列政治、道德伦理和认识论框架，以思考社会和经济不平等、性别与种族关系、多元文化主义、性取向、学校工作过渡和南北冲突。

Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education (TCI) is a specialization within Educational Policy Studies that focuses on the theoretical, philosophical, and ideological underpinnings of education as well as the social and cultural contexts in which education takes place. Formerly known as “educational foundations,” the TCI specialization draws heavily on philosophy, history, sociology, and other social sciences in its approach to the study of education within varying local, national and international settings. Accordingly, ethics, epistemology, historiography, political economy, sociology, social and political theory, comparative education, and cultural studies provide the conceptual lenses through which education is systematically examined. TCI courses thus explore linkages between education and economic, political and cultural systems, and expose students to a range of political, moral-ethical, and epistemological frameworks for thinking about social and economic inequality, gender and race relations, multiculturalism, sexual orientation, school-to-work transitions, and North-South conflicts.