Project 1.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

Project 2.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Theoretical or practical project to explore and analyze an area of interest relevant to education and society.

Critical Perspectives in Educational Theory and Research.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Critical exploration of contemporary issues in educational theory and research, in terms of current scholarship in the field, current educational contexts, and various research paradigms. Educational issues as expressions of social, ethical, political, economic, epistemological and cultural reconfigurations. Students will learn to be critical consumers of educational theories and research.

Research Methods: Theory and Practice.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Overview of the epistemological foundations of a range of research methods, including but not limited to quantitative, philosophical, qualitative, arts-based, and mixed methods. Students will learn techniques to conduct research and to develop a research proposal.

Applied Theatre.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Exploration of the practices of theatre and drama in non-traditional settings, encompassing theatre practices and process drama that tackle areas of social and cultural policy such as public health, education, housing and social welfare.

Arts-Based Educational Research.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Forms of thinking and portraying that emanate from the arts: music, dance, drama, visual art, poetry, which provide an aesthetically-oriented lens from which to examine perspectives and premises that influence educational practice, and to develop processes that use one or more of the arts.

Foundations in Curriculum.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course introduces the field of curriculum studies, including a historical approach to the discourses, debates and issues that have shaped it. Students will actively explore relationships between curriculum theory and professional as well as pedagogical practice.

Self-Study, Autoethnography, and Autobiographical Research .

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Critical and ethical engagement with the relationship between self and other through various auto/biographical approaches to research in education, such as self-study, autoethnography, currere, life writing, artistic practices, writing the self, and memory-work. Exploration of various forms of writing, representation, analysis and critical discussion

Digital Media and Learning.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

This course addresses emerging theories, pedagogies, and practices related to youth learning through digital media and online participatory cultures. Through direct engagement with multiple forms of digital media and youth, students will consider implications for teaching and learning within and beyond schools.

Special Topics in Educational Studies.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year).

Meanings of Literacy.

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Investigation of basic issues related to definitions of literacy. Issues include new directions in literacy and education, the need for non-print literacies in contemporary life, and the challenges these changes present for educators.

Critical Discourse Studies in Education.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Examines critical theories of and approaches to studying discourse, with a focus on the roles of discourse as social and ideological practice in (re-)producing, questioning or challenging power relations, subject positions and established social orders. Emphasis is placed on theory and practice of discourse studies in educational contexts.

Literacy - Multilingual/Multicultural Settings.

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This course examines the teaching of literacy in a range of multilingual and multicultural settings in schooling and society, primarily from the sociocultural perspectives of self and group identity as well as empowerment within majority-minority group relations.

Research Writing.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

The course offers a research-led introduction to processes and practices of research writing. Working to develop their research writing projects, students learn to examine, critically reflect on, and participate in the research writing practices in their fields, guided by current research on the discursive construction of knowledge.

Critical Race Studies and Education .

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Investigates the relationships among race, racialization, and education. Defines education as the processes through which we claim identities, make knowledge claims, and how we learn to take action in the world. Concerned with 1) how we come to know and produce knowledge through race, 2) the pedagogical processes that normalize racial inequity; and 3) the impact of racializing knowledge and structures for variously racialized persons in educational settings. Surveys a range of intersectional critical race theoretical frameworks particularly in Canada. Relevant for developing a critically-engaged educational practice, for whom race, racialization, and social justice are central concerns.

Indigenous Research Methodologies.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Explores theoretical and methodological foundations of Indigenous research. Pays special attention to research positionality as seen through the lenses of settler colonialism and Indigeneity. Highlights importance of Indigenous-led research and decolonizing methodologies. Considers various dimensions of Indigenous research including relationality, responsibility, respect, and reflexivity. Examines the process of decolonizing research by centering Indigenous knowledges, languages, cultures, histories, and identities.

Special Topics 3 in Educational Leadership.

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Selected topics in educational leadership.

Critical and Participatory Research Methods .

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Exploration of several critical and participatory research methodologies (such as Black radical, feminist and activist ethnography) to understand their implications for study methods (framing research questions, data collection and analysis).

Globalization, Education and Change.

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The impact of globalization on educational institutions, processes and practices. Topics may include the politics of change, teachers' work, educational reform, technology, environment, educational management and leadership.

Philosophy of Moral Education.

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A study of principles underlying contemporary moral education such as what constitutes moral values and judgments, normative basis for morality, and differing foundations employed in determining moral norms.

Ethics and Values in Education.

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Considers education as a concept and practice influenced by values (ethical, religious, aesthetic, cultural, political, etc.). Includes a critical examination of selected approaches to values education.

Educational Implications of Social Theory.

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An analysis of some of the educational implications of various social and political theories: liberalism, Marxism and others.

Education and Philosophical Thought.

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An analysis of the educational implications of various philosophical positions concerning the nature of reality and the nature of knowledge.

Sociology of Education.

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Social context of schooling, including education and social stratification and socialization processes within and outside schools.

Introduction to Philosophy of Education.

Terms offered: Summer 2025

Explores questions, aims, debates and modes of inquiry that characterize philosophical approaches to studying educational questions. Introduces philosophy of education as a distinctive field of educational research and may focus on figures or themes of contemporary interest.

Aesthetics and Education.

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An examination and critical analysis of selected readings on the topic of aesthetics, with specific reference to their application to educational practice.

Studies in Comparative Education.

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Comparative study of the economic, political and social aspects of education systems.

Special Topics in Educational Studies.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Explores important current issues in the field of Educational Studies. (Content varies from year to year.)

Theory and Praxis of Culture and Citizenship.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Study and critique of contemporary ethics and cultural education models with a specific emphasis on Quebec鈥檚 Culture and Citizenship program. Introduction to a variety of theoretical and practical perspectives on the roles culture and citizenship play starting from our personal lives to the classroom.

Women, Education and Development.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

This course will trace the major theoretical developments in women and development and relate them to educational issues in the formal, non-formal and informal settings. There will be an emphasis on the significance and policy implications of women's education for sustainable developments in the countries of the South.

Education: Multicultural Societies.

Terms offered: this course is not currently offered.

Majority-minority relations and their implications for educational policy and practice.