Fall Term 2025 (1930)
EDPS 425 - Global Education
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
This course considers how global education facilitates critical understanding concerning the contradictions of capitalist development and globalization for the Global South by addressing: dispossession-displacement-slumization of Indigenous Peoples and peasants; land, water, hunger and food sovereignty; migrant labor; poverty-inequality-debt; environment; conflict-peace; development-racism; educational neocolonialism; human rights, NGOs and social movements.
LECTURE A01 (55551)
2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
MW 11:00 - 12:20
EDPS 520 - Adult Education, Popular Movements and NGOs in the Global South
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
This course will examine the role and nature of adult education and learning processes in social change initiatives being undertaken by development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and by popular subaltern social movements of pastoralists, peasants, indigenous peoples, rural women and urban poor (shack dwellers) social groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean (Global South). These initiatives will be explored in terms of a critical contextual appreciation of the inter/national development project and neoliberal globalization.
LECTURE X01 (57897)
2025-09-02 - 2025-12-08
M 17:00 - 20:00
Winter Term 2026 (1940)
EDPS 360 - Society and Education
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
The changing function and structures of education, with special reference to contemporary Canadian society.
LECTURE B02 (86966)
2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
TR 09:30 - 10:50
EDPS 591 - Foundations of Education: Perspectives on International Issues
3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)
Critically examines the role of education in the problems and prospects of international development. As an inclusive construct, development comprises enhancements in the economic, social, political, cultural and technological well-being of people's lives. Examines contemporary societal issues that influence and/or are influenced by educational policies and programs. Perspectives from regions and groups such as Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe, the Oceania-Pacific, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and communities indigenous to different parts of the world will be included.
LECTURE X50 (84892)
2026-01-05 - 2026-04-10
R 17:00 - 20:00