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.

EDPS 525 - Globalization, Global Education and Change

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

This course will develop a critical understanding of select perspectives on globalization and the associated implications for: (a) formal, non-formal and informal education in local, national, and international contexts; and (b) pedagogical possibilities for critical global education in schools and communities addressing global issues pertaining to international development (poverty and inequality in North-South trajectories), ecology, human rights and improved prospects for peace.

EDPS 491 - Special Topics in Educational Policy Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Content varies from year to year. Topics announced prior to registration period. The student's transcript carries a title descriptive of content. May be repeated when course content differs.

EDPS 501 - Special Topics in Educational Policy Studies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Content varies from year to year. Topics announced prior to registration period. The student's transcript carries a title descriptive of content. May be repeated.

EDPS 544 - Critical Educational Research Methodologies

3 units (fi 6)(EITHER, 3-0-0)

Examines historical and contemporary perspectives shaping qualitative critical educational research methodologies, including antiracist, anti-, post-, and de-colonial, critical policy studies, critical discourse analysis, feminist, Indigenous, and others. Explores how these perspectives can inform research designs and methods for studying educational practices and processes in institutional and community contexts.