Adult Learning and Education
Master of 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 | 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 | Equity, Higher education, International and Comparative Education, International comparative higher education, Life Course research, Lifelong learning, Policy, Research methodologies, Social justice, Sociology of 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 | history of education, Education policy, 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 of Major Eras, Great Civilisations or Geographical Corpuses, 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 |
| Marker, Michael | First Nations’ education, First nations education |
| Mazawi, Andre | Citizenship and democracy, Higher education, International and Comparative Education, Leadership and organizations, Research methodologies, Sociology of Education |
| Metcalfe, Amy | Science and Knowledge, Power and Organization, Imagery, Higher Education, Faculty, Internationalization, Campus Environments |
| 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 | Philosophical Traditions in Education, philosophy of education |
| Roman, Leslie | Ethnography, Cultural studies, Disability studies, Sociology of Education |
| Ruitenberg, Claudia | Philosophical Traditions in Education, Educational Approaches, Social Impact of Artistic Education, Professional Ethics, Political Contexts, Political education; discourse and translation, Environmental philosophy and education |
| Shan, Hongxia | Adult education, Equity, Gender Studies, International and Comparative Education, Lifelong Learning, Policy, Research methodologies, Social justice, Teaching and Practice, Workplace learning |
| Sork, Tom | Adult education, Lifelong learning, Teaching and Practice |
| Stack, Michelle | Adult Education and Continuing Education, Media and Society, Educational Context, university rankings, media education, Knowledge translation, student engagement, social justice and equity |
| Stein, Sharon Rebekah | |
| Taylor, Alison | Social Contexts, Political Contexts, Educational Context, Social Policies, Education, Knowledge and Skills |
| Tom, Allison | |
| Vanwynsberghe, Robert | Citizenship and democracy, Social justice, Sustainability; Sustainability; Environmental Education; Theory and Method |
| Walker, Judith | Adult education, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education, International Comparative Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, Medical Education, Policy, Workplace learning |
| Walter, Pierre | environmental education, literacy, comparative education, gender and development, Southeast Asian studies., Adult education, International and Comparative Education, Sustainability |
| Wang, Fei | Education and Training Management, Leadership, Social Contract and Social Justice, Ideology and Social Policy, Educational administration and leadership, social justice and diversity, comparative policy studies, the role of the school principals |
| Webb, P. Taylor | Thought Schools (education), Education policy and social theory, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Neoliberalism, Governmentality, Micropolitics, Biopolitics, Subjectivity |
| Wright, Handel | Transcultural Studies, Educational Approaches, (post)multiculturalism and multicultural education, Cultural Studies, Youth Studies, Critical Race Theory, identity, citizenship and belonging, Africana studies, postcolonialism and decolonization |
