华东师范大学教育高等研究院是以教育文化和社会研究为旨向的协同创新和学术研究机构，拓展社会生活与教育研究的多学科交叉的新方向、新发现的研究。
教育社会研究从社会与教育过程的动力机制、结构框架、运行方式、微观行动等方面，聚焦社会差异与教育平等、教育与社会流动和分层、教育组织与效能、知识社会与国民素质，承认与身份等基本问题，强调教育过程中不同个体或群体生活样式对社会的改造作用，并包含教育公平、教育质量等一系列重大问题的教育”社会再生产”与”文化再生产”两大核心议题。
教育文化研究强调教育活动的文化内涵和各类文化实践的教育功用，将教育作为一项文化行动，从广泛的视角理解教育活动及其过程的文化意义。研究对象涉及中外历史与现实中的教育文化现象，并以教育影像、音乐想象、图像象征、戏剧人生、行业传承等新的教育文化议题为突破口，推进建筑文化与教育意蕴、媒体文化与教育形态、技术文化与教育革新、社会文化与教育变迁，以及教育叙事探究等研究。
研究院以研究项目为纽带，组织跨学科、跨机构和跨国际的研究队伍，形成了机构开放、人员流动、内外联合、专兼职结合的运行机制，推进与国内外学术前沿的多边互动。
Institute for Advanced Studies in Education (IASE) of East China Normal University is a collaborative innovation as well as an academic research institution, which focus on research of educational culture and society, expands new orientations and finding of social life and educational researches in multidisciplinary fields.
From the social and the education process dynamics mechanism, structure frame, operation mode and microcosmic action, Education social studies focus on social difference and education equality, education and social mobility and stratification, social motivation of school development, knowledge society and national quality, recognition and identity and other basic problems. It emphasizes the transformation of the life style of different individuals or groups in the process of education, and includes the two core issues of “social reproduction” and “cultural reproduction” in educational equity and quality.
Education cultural Studies emphasizes the cultural connotations of educational activities and the educational functions of various cultural practices, and takes education as a cultural action, and understands the cultural significance of educational activities and processes from a broad perspective. The research object relates to the educational cultural phenomenon in history and reality, and focus on education image, music imagination, picture symbol, drama life, Trades inheritance as the breakthrough, promote the architectural culture and educational implication, media culture and educational form, technological culture and educational innovation, social culture and educational change, and the study of educational narrative research.
IASE organizes interdisciplinary, inter-agency and trans-international research teams, which form the mechanism of institution opening, personnel mobility, internal and external integration, and the combination of part-time work, and promotes multilateral interaction with academic frontiers at home and abroad.
Gang Ding
Hu Leye
Yijing Mao
Gang Wu
Zhang Zeming