In EDST 630: Transformative Learning for Social Change, we will specifically examine theories of transformative education within the field of adult education—particularly theories that are meant to catalyze social transformation as well as individual change.
EDST 632 Global Education examines the contested concept and phenomena of globalization since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 through the expansion of neoliberal economic globalization in the 1990s and new century, as well as the educational responses to it, generally referred to as global education.
EDST 645: Curriculum: Provoking Inquiry is a course that will lead you to consider the learning and teaching implications in our current realities. It will sustain a conversation about curriculum, inter/subjectivities and im/possibilities for the purposes of developing a literacy of curriculum practices and effects in our everyday worlds.
EDST 646: Educational Administration, Policy, Leadership, and Change is designed to meet the needs of those students interested in pursuing administrative and leadership roles in their respective educational institutions or those who wish to augment course work in the areas of work and organization, equity studies, and global studies.
EDST 647: Critical Multicultural Education In Canada involves an extensive critique of Canada’s multicultural policy, which has been in place since 1971, and which most Canadians accept as de facto evidence for acceptance of wide-ranging differences and diversity in relation to race, ethnicity, and culture.