Adult Learning and Education
Graduate Certificate
Department of Educational Studies
At Educational Studies we are not just a community of professors, instructors and students working in isolation on obscure academic projects that few people can relate to. In fact, our work deeply and directly affects people and communities both locally and globally. Whether it’s working with farmers in Afghanistan or collaborating with Indigenous communities, the people of EDST are dedicated to a better world through education. Although our work varies widely, scholarship and teaching within EDST generally includes:
- 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 (the study of knowledge and knowing — don’t worry, you’ll learn this when you get here), 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
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Abdi, Ali | Citizenship and human rights education, International Development Education, Multi-centric Philosophies and Methodologies of Education, postcolonial studies in education, Social and Cultural Foundations of Education |
| Ahenakew, Cash | Cultural studies, Higher Education, Indigenous Studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Race/ethnicity, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
| Andres, Lesley | Higher education; life course research; international comparative higher education; sociology of higher education |
| Chan, Jennifer | transnational social movements, international and comparative education, Japanese civil society, Islam in multicultural societies, Adult education, Citizenship and democracy, Gender studies, International and Comparative Education, Multiculturalism, Post-colonial studies |
| De Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa | Education for/about international development, Social accountability in local and global engagements, Global Citizenship Education |
| Ellis, Jason | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Education policy; history of education; Politics of education |
| Fallon, Gerald | Indigenous Studies, International and Comparative Education, Leadership and Organizations, Policy, Research methodologies |
| Frank, Blye | Boys’ and men’s sociology of health, Masculinities and schooling gender and schooling Sexualities and schooling professional development in education, Masculinity, sociology of boys |
| Gill, Hartej | Cultural studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Teaching and Practice |
| Gleason, Mona | History, archaeology and related studies; history of education; history of children and youth; critical youth studies; gender and sexuality |
| Kelly, Deirdre | Children and youth, Gender studies, Media and democracy, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
| Kovach, Margaret | |
| Mazawi, Andre | Citizenship and democracy, Higher education, International and Comparative Education, Leadership and organizations, Research methodologies, Sociology of Education |
| Metcalfe, Amy | Educational policy; Higher education; Specialized studies in education; Higher Education Studies; Internationalization; Migration Studies; Academic Labour and Mobility; Higher Education Policy; Visual Research Methods; Campus Environments; Science and Knowledge |
| Parent, Amy | |
| Poole, Wendy | Educational leadership and administration; Organizational change in education (reform of schooling); Teachers’ work; Teacher unions and teacher unionism; role of teacher unions in education, Leadership and organizations, Social justice, Teaching and Practice |
| Rocha Perkerwicz, Samuel | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Philosophical Traditions in Education; philosophy of education |
| Roman, Leslie | Ethnography, Cultural studies, Disability studies, Sociology of Education |
| Ruitenberg, Claudia | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational Approaches; Environmental philosophy and education; Philosophical Traditions in Education; Political Contexts; Political education; discourse and translation; Professional Ethics; Social Impact of Artistic Education |
| Shan, Hongxia | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
| Sork, Tom | Adult education, Lifelong learning, Teaching and Practice |
| Stack, Michelle | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Adult Education and Continuing Education; Educational Context; Knowledge translation; Media and Society; media education; social justice and equity; student engagement; university rankings |
| Stein, Sharon Rebekah | Educational policy; Higher education; Specialized studies in education; Educational theory; Global education; Higher Education; Indigenous studies; International and comparative education; International education; Pedagogy and education; Political economy of Higher Education; Post-colonial studies; Race/ethnicity; Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Social justice; sustainability |
| Taylor, Alison | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Higher education; Specialized studies in education; Education, Knowledge and Skills; Educational Context; Political Contexts; Social Contexts; Social Policies |
| Tom, Allison | |
| Vanwynsberghe, Robert | Citizenship and democracy, Social justice, Sustainability; Sustainability; Environmental Education; Theory and Method |
| Walker, Judith | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Sociology of education; Educational policy; Adult education; Higher Education; policy studies; Health Professions Education |
| Walter, Pierre | environmental education, literacy, comparative education, gender and development, Southeast Asian studies., Adult education, International and Comparative Education, Sustainability |
| Wang, Fei | Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; comparative policy studies; Education and Training Management; Educational administration and leadership; Ideology and Social Policy; Leadership; Social Contract and Social Justice; social justice and diversity; the role of the school principals |
| Webb, P. Taylor | Education systems; Philosophy; Education governance and education politics; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Micropolitics; Biopolitics; Subjectivity |
| Wright, Handel | Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; (post)multiculturalism and multicultural education; Africana studies; Critical Race Theory; Cultural Studies; Educational Approaches; identity, citizenship and belonging; postcolonialism and decolonization; Transcultural Studies; Youth Studies |
