Adult Learning and Education
Graduate Certificate in Adult Learning and Education
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 | Comparative and cross-cultural education; Decolonizing philosophies of education, Development education, Critical research methodologies,; Human rights 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 |
| De Oliveira Andreotti, Vanessa | Education for/about international development, Social accountability in local and global engagements, Global Citizenship Education |
| Ellis, Jason | Canadian history; Specialized studies in education; Educational policy; Education policy; history of education |
| Fallon, Gerald | Indigenous Studies, International and Comparative Education, Leadership and Organizations, Policy, Research methodologies |
| Gill, Hartej | Cultural studies, Leadership and Organizations, Post-colonial studies, Teaching and Practice |
| Gleason, Mona | History, archaeology and related studies |
| Kelly, Deirdre | Children and youth, Gender studies, Media and democracy, Social justice, Sociology of Education |
| Kovach, Margaret | |
| Louie, Dustin | Indigenous Education; Social justice; Educational philosophy |
| 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 |
| Opini, Bathseba | |
| 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 | History and philosophy of education; Political science and policy administration; Environmental education and extension; Environmental philosophy and education; philosophy of education; Political education |
| Shan, Hongxia | Other education, n.e.c.; Immigration and adult education and learning; Lifelong learning; Gender and work; Prof. learning |
| Stack, Michelle | Adult and continuing education, and community education; Educational policy; Media studies (except social media and digital media); Community Engaged Research; Knowledge translation; Cooperatives and Social Solidarity Economies; University Rankings and Equity; Disability studies; anti-racism; media education |
| Stein, Sharon Rebekah | Higher education; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational theory; Global education; Higher Education; International and comparative education; International education; Pedagogy and education; Post-colonial studies; Race/ethnicity; Social and Cultural Foundations of Education; Social justice; sustainability; climate change |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Wang, Fei | Educational administration, management and leadership; Educational policy; Specialized studies in education; Educational administration and leadership; Leadership; the role of the school principals; social justice and diversity; comparative policy studies; Education and Training Management; Ideology and Social Policy; Social Contract and Social Justice; Offshore school and its leadership |
| Webb, P. Taylor | Education systems; Philosophy; Education governance, policy, and politics; Michel Foucault; Gilles Deleuze; Neoliberalism; Governmentality; Micropolitics; Biopolitics; Subjectivity; Artificial Intelligence |
| 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; anti-racism |
