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MASTERS IN EDUCATION - COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMME
“COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP AND ADULT EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE”
JULY 2007 – AUGUST 2009
FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
In today's disruptive climate of economic restructuring, globalisation, cultural homogenisation, education and health cutbacks, un and underemployment, resource depletion and environmental degradation, growing racism, intolerance, war, violence and alienation, it is important that we develop creative and critical practices of working, organising and educating in communities and the workplace. In response, Leadership Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria, B.C. is offering a second Masters of Education community-based programme titled “Community Leadership and Adult Education for Social, Cultural, and Environmental Change.”
The programme begins July 2007 and has a strong international focus. Community leadership in this programme means creative strategies and ways of working that promote activism, people acting as agents of change to strengthen participatory democracy and communities. It is about citizenship, voice, activism, taking risks and often, being subversive as organisers, leaders, facilitators or animators. Adult education is understood as a process of learning and action within communities, institutions, organisations and other workplaces that promotes empowerment, critical debate and reflection, creativity and imagination, ecological, media and aesthetic literacies, community building, social action for justice, and addresses systemic oppressions based on race, gender, ableness, sexual orientation to name but a few.
Students in this cohort will explore theories and practices around:
- social movement learning
- community arts and research
- healthy and learning communities
- poetry and peace
- community cultural development
- democracy, citizenship, governance and globalisation
- environmental justice and adult education
- feminist pedagogy and leadership
- anti-racism and cultural diversity
- popular education, transformative learning, adult education and lifelong learning
- activism and protest as forms of leadership and social change
- power and empowerment
Courses titles may include:
- Concepts and Theories of Organisation
- Poetry and Social Movement Learning
- Popular and Transformative Education
- Liberatory and Learning Potentials of Arts and Crafts
- Building Health Communities
- Citizenship, Democracy and Governance
- Community Mapping
- Participatory Research
- International Perspectives in Adult and Lifelong Learning
Professors in the programme will be activists and scholars in adult education, community leadership, the arts, community development, or lifelong learning from Canada, South Africa, India and Argentina. As noted above, some courses are arts-based, others more theoretical and others, more practical. A number of courses are mandatory but others are optional, leaving students the chance to follow in more depth a particular interest.
Students must have a B.A. in any subject and at least a B average. Registration is done through the normal University system but students identify this community-based programme as their area of interest.
Structure:
- Classes held on campus from July 3 to August 3, 2007 (6 hours per day)
- Classes on campus (Friday evening and Saturday) for those in the area and through the email September 2007 – April 2008 (two classes in total)
- Class May – June (two evenings per week and one full Saturday)
- Classes on campus for the month of July 2008, similar to number 1 above.
- Student project work (in your community) from September 2008-August 2009 (many students finish in April)
- Comprehensive exam (April 2009 or August 2009)
If you are interested please contact Dr. Darlene E. Clover and Ione Wager and they will assist with the application process: clover@uvic.ca; iwagner@uvic.ca
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