Programs of Study

Sociology and Equity Studies in Education 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. The department focuses on identifying new relationships and making connections by asking significant questions within and across disciplines. 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 take 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, antiracism 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 other qualitative approaches.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.

 

SESE offers the following programs: 

• Master of Art (M.A.) - Full and Part time
• Master in Education (M.Ed.)  - Full and Part time
• Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) - Full, Flex and Part time
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)  - Full and Flexible-time
   

Involvement in Additional University Programs

• Initial Teaching Education (ITE)

Collaborative Programs

SESE participates in the collaborative programs listed below.  The collective experience of the participating graduate unit (SESE) provides the student with a broader base from which to explore a novel interdisciplinary area or some special development in a particular discipline.

The student must be admitted to, and enrol in, a SESE degree and must fulfil all the requirements for that degree and any additional requirements of the collaborative program. Each collaborative program is designed to allow a focus in the area of specialty. On successful completion of the program, the student receives a transcript notation.
 

- Aboriginal Health (AborHlth): Contact kue.young@utoronto.ca
- Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies (CDTS): Contact cdts@utoronto.ca 
- Comparative, International & Development Education (CIDE): Contact cide@oise.utoronto.ca
- Educational Policy: Contact  Peter Sawchuk (peter.sawchuk@utoronto.ca); Kari Dehli (kari.dehli@utoronto.ca); Diane Farmer (diane.farmer@utoronto.ca)
- Environmental Studies (Environ): Contact jsumner@oise.utoronto.ca
- Ethnic and Pluralism Studies (Ethnic): Contact J. Reitz (jeffrey.reitz@utoronto.ca )
- Sexual Diversity Studies (SDS): Contact sexual.diversity@utoronto.ca
- South Asian Studies (CSAS): Contact S. Razack sherene.razack@utoronto.ca)
- Women and Gender Studies (CWGS): Contact grad.womenstudies@utoronto.ca)
- Workplace Learning and Social Change (WPLSC) - Contact K. Mirchandani
(kiran@oise.utoronto.ca) or Peter Sawchuk (peter.sawchuk@utoronto.ca)

 

• See OISE Bulletin for other OISE Collborative Programs

Current Departmental Teaching and Research Interests are: