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Arts Education
Our Arts Education programs offer students opportunities to explore creativity and meaning-making through the arts, through investigation of arts practices, pedagogy and ways of being in inquiry. Students will engage in arts explorations and scholarship in a community of artists, creatives, and arts educators.
MASTERS PROGRAMS
The Arts Education MEd program is a course work only degree culminating in a portfolio/interview examination. All students enter graduate work in Arts Education through the Med route.
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Our master's programs in Arts Education provide students with knowledge to help develop many skills that can be implemented in a variety of traditional and non-traditional educative environments. The Arts Education MEd program is a course work only degree culminating in a portfolio/ interview examination. All students enter graduate work in Arts Education through the MEd route.
The Master of Education (MEd) in Arts Education explores the relationship between arts theory, inquiry, learning, and practice and its application in our lives, community, and in a variety of educational settings. Our goal is learning and teaching across a range of arts disciplines, creating a language of advocacy for the arts. This program is suitable for those working in schools and other educational, arts-based contexts.
The Master of Arts (MA) in Arts Education involves the completion and examination of an academic thesis. Students may apply to the MA after completing four required courses, the submission of a research proposal, and with approval of the arts faculty team. Applicants to the MA are highly advised to complete all six courses required for the M.Ed. The MA allows for further research in an individual’s area of interest and is a suitable foundation for doctoral study.
The MEd and MA in Arts Education does not result in a certified teaching credential in Canada. To apply to a teacher education program, visit the PDP program page.
Transferring From the MEd to the MA Degree?
Learn more about how to transfer between the MEd to the MA degree by visiting the useful guides, links and forms section of the current graduate students page.
DOCTORAL PROGRAMS
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Develop a career as an educator in the arts, and gain a PhD in Education. Combine critical arts studies and arts educational theory, while developing an arts specialization and building a broad interdisciplinary knowledge across the arts.
The Arts Education (PhD) in Arts Education explores the relationship between arts theory, inquiry, and practice in a variety of social and education settings. Central to our program, is a commitment to the theoretical, historical and philosophical foundations of arts in society and in community. Attention is given to diverse forms of research through the arts: Arts-based methodologies including embodied inquiry, performative inquiry, poetic inquiry, a/r/tography, research-based theatre. We celebrate individual artistic journeys and arts practices enacted throughout the degree. A variety of perspectives and ways of being in the world are welcomed (e.g. arts for social change, Indigenous, ecological, phenomenological). Doctoral students come from a variety of artistic backgrounds: dancers, artists, media artists, musicians, theatre artists, writers, curators and creatives, who work in a variety of contexts, such as post-secondary, K-12, cultural and arts institutions, consultants, and the film, theatre, music, and visual arts communities.
The program is firmly grounded in the interstices between one’s scholarship, artistic practice and pedagogy. Students are encouraged to explore interdisciplinary knowledge across the arts, while allowing for specialization in a particular arts area. The non-departmental structure of this faculty is conducive for students to take advantage of a wide variety of faculty expertise and courses to complement the core courses required.
This program has a biennial intake.
ACADEMIC COORDINATORS
ARTS EDUCATION (MA, MED) AND ARTS EDUCATION (PHD)
TEACHING FACULTY
COMMUNITY ARTISTS & RESEARCHERS
Alumni Theses
MA or MEd
- Audrey Morin Beaulieu: Collective and individual selves in the making: Identity inquiries through self-directed and in-class art explorations
- Elaine Harder: Performing identity at the arts edge: Developing radio memoir through the excavation of living inquiry
- Edmond Kilpatrick: Art as a means to locate and disrupt embodied prejudice with emotional sensations on the body: The artful and transformative telling of stories of stigma and HIV
- Meghan Parker: Art teacher in process: An illustrated exploration of art, education and what matters
- Amy Thomasson: The Gardener, The Actor, and The Educator: Six Lessons Towards Creating and Cultivating Spaces of Vulnerability Between Theatre for Young Audiences and Education
PhD
- Dr. Gordon Cobb: Lights, Camera, Re/Action: Exploring Transformative Music Engagement Through Music Video Production with Inner-city Youth
- Dr. Erica Grimm: The aesthetics of attentiveness: A philosophy for artists and educators
- Dr. Karen Kurnaedy: Dance Artists, Dance Education, and Society
- Dr. Julia Lane: Impossibility Aside: Clowning and the Scholarly Context
- Dr. Kathryn Ricketts: The suitcase, the map, and the compass: an expedition into embodied poetic narrative and its application toward fostering optimal learning spaces
- Dr. Paula Rosehart: Learning to move, moving to learn: Metaphorical expressions in teacher education
