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Coursework

Students must complete 4.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs) including:

• Introduction to Adult Education (LHA1100H, 0.5 FCE)
  • Designed to develop students' understanding of and an identity with the field of adult education. Major philosophical, historical, and conceptual bases are examined, as well as contemporary agencies and programs, issues, and trends in the practice of adult education.

OR 

• Community Development: Innovative Models (LHA1102H, 0.5 FCE)
  • This course attempts to come to grips with the meaning of community development in a highly networked, increasingly information-dependent society. The course looks at such issues as the relationships between community organizing and community development and the role of social capital in community economic development.  
• Master's Thesis Seminar (LHA1183H, 0.5 FCE)
  • Designed to support students in the process of writing a thesis or a substantial research paper. 
• 0.5 FCE in research methods.
• At least 2.0 FCEs of the total of 4.0 FCEs must be from the Adult Education and Community Development program. Additional courses may be required of some students.
   

Thesis

Based on original research, which may lay the groundwork for doctoral research.

Collaborative specializations provide graduate students enrolled in participating degree programs with an additional multidisciplinary experience as they complete their home degree program. 

Learn more about the collaborative specializations offered to students in this program:

Faculty in the AECD program have multi-disciplinary teaching and research expertise in a wide range of fields. 

Our faculty's expertise includes, but is not limited to: 

• Community organizing and development
• Workplace and organizational learning for social change
• Social movement learning and the social economy
• Comparative international education and development
• Popular education
• Indigenous education
• Education for sustainability
• Community healing and peace building
• Adult literacy
• Feminism, anti-racism and migration

Full Time

In their first year of study, full-time MA students receive a graduate funding package equal to the cost of academic tuition and fees, plus support as a Graduate Assistant. The second year of study is self-funded. For more information visit Tuition & Financial Support. 

Part Time

The part-time MA is a self-funded degree. For more information visit Tuition & Financial Support. 

Awards

For more information about awards and scholarships visit:

• OISE Awards

Please note: LHAE will advertise these awards via student listservs throughout the year as the competitions open. 

Information on scholarships available to OISE students.

The Bonnie Burstow Scholarship is specific to the Adult Education & Community Development program.

The Bonnie Burstow Scholarship for Research into Violence Against Indigenous Women: In Memory of Helen Betty Osborne

This scholarship is to be awarded to an outstanding OISE graduate student whose thesis focuses on the violence itself, or the history underpinning it. Approaches to addressing the aftermath of violence can also be considered only if they are vested exclusively in Indigenous approaches. For the purposes of this Scholarship, violence against Indigenous women, girls, and Indigenous and Two-Spirit/Trans people is defined broadly. It includes not only what is conventionally seen as violence, such as murdered and missing, battery and rape, it also includes such international  violence as imprisonment, psychiatrization, and interference by child welfare. 

If in any given year, there is an applicant to the MA or PhD program in Adult Education at OISE whose intended thesis fits the criteria and is deemed worthy by the University, the Scholarship may be offered to the applicant as part of the admissions package. Otherwise, after a competition in which any current OISE student may apply, the Scholarship will be offered to an OISE student, irrespective of program or department, whose thesis centrally involves research in this area. Preference will be given to Indigenous women students and Indigenous students who identity as Two-Spirit.

There is no automatic application process for this scholarship, but rather as part of the admissions process all new applicants to thesis programs in Adult Education & Community Development, will automatically be considered for the award; nonetheless, prospective students are free to draw attention to their suitability for this award in their Statement of Intent.  In the event that no one is given the award during the admissions process, applications for from students who are already in the program will open in the Spring.

Regrettably, our Full-Time Funded Master of Arts program cannot accept International applicants at this time.  However, the Department may consider applications from international applicants where home governments, international organizations or funding agencies can provide them with funding. The funding must minimally have the value and duration of the graduate funding package that is offered and should be indicated on the application. Please review the Graduate Funding Package website. 

International students are invited to apply to the Part-Time Master of Arts program or the Master of Education (Full-Time or Part-Time) program. Any international applications for the Full-Time MA program will automatically be redirected to the Full-Time M.Ed. program for consideration.