Subject Matter Expertise
The program is comprised of faculty with expertise in a variety of subject matters, which students can draw from in order to further their own career and life goals.
Our faculty have multi-disciplinary teaching and research expertise in:
• Community organizing and development
• Workplace and organizational learning for social change
• Social movement learning and the social economy
• Citizenship learning
• Comparative international education and development
• Popular education
• Aboriginal education
• Education for sustainability
• Community healing and peacebuilding
• Adult literacy
• Feminism, anti-racism and migration
Individual faculty expertise includes:
Bonnie Burstow
Qualitative research; working with survivors of trauma; social movements of disenfranchised populations; popular education.
Jamie Magnusson
Intersections of higher education, neoliberal economic policy, and globalization.
Angela Miles
Feminist and critical theory; local and global activism; international and community development; social movement learning.
Kiran Mirchandani
Workplace learning and social change; gender and race in workplace;global economic regimes;critical organization analysis
Shahrzad Mojab
Educational policy studies; women, war, and learning; feminism, colonialism and imperialism in adult education; adult education and revolutionary movements
Karen Mundy
International organizations and educational change; global citizenship; civil society and education; international development and education
Roxana Ng
Institutional ethnography and participatory research; migration and globalizations; immigrant women; embodied learning
Jack Quarter
Social economy; non profits and co-operatives; volunteering; community development
Jean-Paul Restoule
Aboriginal education; cultural identity and representation; indigenous research methodologies
Peter Sawchuk
Associate professor; workplace learning; trade union studies; technology and work; adult learning theory; cognition and communication at work; cultural historical activity theory; Marxist theory.