丁香园AV

Faculty of Education
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Doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees signify the acquisition of advanced knowledge in a field of specialization and advanced competence in conducting significant and original education research. This program offers educators and researchers the opportunity to focus on the cultural and linguistic diversity that characterizes contemporary classrooms. The program provides opportunities for students to participate in ongoing research and ultimately to conduct their own research regarding how diversity might be recognized, strengthened and taken as a resource in public education. Courses offer a range of opportunities to question meanings and practices of social difference including those based on race, gender, language, class, and sexuality.

This program requires successful completion of 23 units of course work culminating in a comprehensive examination and a doctoral thesis.

丁香园AV Requirements

See graduate general regulation 1.3 for University admission requirements. In exceptional circumstances, applicants who do not meet these requirements may be considered if superior scholarly or professional achievement is demonstrated.

Graduate education admission is granted to a specific degree and to a particular program or specialization. Updated application information is available beginning November 15 from the . All applications are reviewed once a year. Completed applications must be received by January 15.

Program Requirements

Students complete all of

• EDUC 867-5 Qualitative Methods in Educational Research
  
• EDUC 923-4 The Politics of Difference: Coalition Building and Critical Pedagogy
• EDUC 924-4 Multilingual Societies and Identities in a Globalizing World
• EDUC 925-4 Critical Literacies in Multilingual Contexts
• EDUC 926-2 Doctoral Seminar A: Anthropological Approaches to Educational Research
• EDUC 927-2 Doctoral Seminar B: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Educational Research
• EDUC 928-2 Doctoral Seminar C: Critical and Sociocultural Approaches to Educational Research

Students are welcome to complete other courses in the Faculty of Education and throughout the University, with their senior supervisor鈥檚 permission.

Comprehensive Examination

All candidates also complete a comprehensive examination by enrolling in

• EDUC 983-5 Doctoral Comprehensive Examination

This course is a prerequisite to EDUC 899-10 Doctoral Thesis. Normally, the comprehensive examination is completed in the term in which course requirements are completed, or the term immediately following.

Thesis

Normally, before the fourth course, a thesis research plan is presented to the tenured or tenure track Faculty of Education member whom the student proposes to be senior supervisor. Following the supervisor鈥檚 approval and at least one other faculty member chosen in consultation with the senior supervisor, the supervisory committee is formed and the student proceeds to the thesis by completing

• EDUC 899-10 Doctoral Thesis

Academic Requirements within the Graduate General Regulations

All graduate students must satisfy the academic requirements that are specified in the graduate general regulations (residence, course work, academic progress, supervision, research competence requirement, completion time, and degree completion), as well as the specific requirements for the program in which they are enrolled, as shown above.

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