Master of Arts in Education in Lifelong Learning

The Master of Arts in Education program in Studies in Lifelong Learning is an advanced, five-credit degree that includes a one-credit thesis. The degree is offered on-campus as a full-time or part-time program.

A main goal of the Master of Arts in Education program is to prepare students for advanced scholarship in Studies in Lifelong Learning. The program enhances the capacities of students to investigate and analyze a range of literature related to lifelong learning and, in key courses, it encourages them to test out and master effective and ethical teaching and learning practices.

The program is organized to achieve the following objectives:

• Provide students with a solid introduction to studies in lifelong learning that familiarizes them with the historical, philosophical, and social theoretical foundations of the field;
• Familiarize them with theories of lifelong learning;
• Deepen their capacities for shaping contexts to support lifelong learning;
• Sharpen their critical awareness of the ways lifelong learning contributes to the production and reproduction of social and cultural structures and, reciprocally, the ways these structures enable and constrain lifelong learning processes;
• Enhance their knowledge of research methods and expand their capacities for conducting scholarly research in Studies in Lifelong Learning.

Students in the MAEd program take the following courses: