About SESE (Why Study With Us?)
 

The Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education (SESE) is an interdisciplinary graduate social science program founded in the sociology of education. It is concerned with forms of social relations as they appear in specific historical, cultural, and political contexts. It focuses on identifying new relationships and making connections by asking significant questions within and across disciplines through the various masters and doctoral degree programs (link to degree program here). SESE addresses theoretical and empirical problems regarding in/equity in educational spaces broadly conceived, such as schools, universities, workplaces, government, unions, media, public culture, and communities.
 
The examination of social relations, knowledge, and power in these educational spaces is crucial to questions of justice in everyday life.  In the face of these questions, learning to teach and teaching to learn takes on new promise, particularly in relation to curricular and pedagogical possibilities.  

SESE engages with established and emergent questions and debates in research on, and at the intersections of, anti-racism and critical race theory, culture and communication, feminism and gender, work and learning, class and poverty, aboriginal and indigenous studies, and francophone studies. Postcolonial and anti-colonial, diaspora and transnational, queer, and disability studies also constitute growing areas of inquiry. SESE is particularly strong in a range of empirical methodologies including interpretive, textual, and discourse analyses; ethnographic and historical research; and quantitative studies.

SESE supports and encourages student, staff, and faculty involvement in activist and political spaces, and facilitates academic connections with other intellectual communities beyond the department.  These activities demonstrate a collective commitment to making SESE a space for interdisciplinary learning and praxis.  
 

We welcome you to explore our programs,  initiatives, activities and communities on this website!