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Faculty Specializations

The following are words faculty use to describe their particular areas of expertise. If you are applying to do a doctorate in EDST, it is important to identify one or two faculty you would like to work with based on your research interests.

  • Adult education
  • Children and youth
  • Citizenship and democracy
  • Cultural studies
  • Disability Studies
  • Gender studies
  • Higher education
  • History of education
  • Indigenous studies
  • International and Comparative Education
  • Leadership and organizations
  • Lifelong learning
  • Media and democracy
  • Medical Education
  • Multiculturalism
  • Philosophy of education
  • Policy
  • Post-colonial studies
  • Queer studies
  • Race/ethnicity
  • Research methodologies
  • Social justice
  • Sociology of Education
  • Sustainability
  • Teaching and Practice
  • Urban studies
  • Workplace learning
Department of Educational Studies
Faculty of Education
Vancouver Campus
Ponderosa Commons North (Oak House)
6445 University Boulevard
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z2
Tel 604 822 5374
Email edst.educ@ubc.ca
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