“Critical and transformative approaches to local and global education”

Welcome to the Department of Educational Studies. Our students and faculty study—with the aim of improving—educational practices, policies, and theories in all of the spaces in which we learn, lifelong and lifewide. We offer doctoral, master’s and/or diploma programs in:

• adult and higher education

• adult learning and global change

• educational administration and leadership

• educational leadership and policy

• society, culture and politics in education

Our scholarship and teaching are animated by a commitment to challenging the commonplace and generating possibilities for transformation to foster more sustainable, socially just, democratic societies. The department is further characterized by theoretical depth, methodological diversity and innovation, and praxis in scholarship, teaching and civic engagement. We offer room for disciplinary as well as multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.

Our fields of scholarship and teaching include (and exceed):

• adult and community education and social movements
  

• citizenship and human rights
  

• continuing professional education
  

• cultural politics, critical multiculturalism and feminist studies
  

• educational leadership and policy
  

• epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy
  

• equity in education (on the axes of race, disability, gender, class, and sexuality)
  

• indigenous education
  

• international and comparative education
  

• media, popular culture and representation
  

• youth and children in schools, families, and communities