Leadership studies

EPLS Prospective Graduate Student Question and Answer

Are you interested in the MA, MEd, or PhD programs in Educational Psychology or in Leadership Studies? Join us for a Question and Answer session with our Graduate Advisor!

Date: November 6, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM PST
Location: (https://uvic.zoom.us/j/83167134318?pwd=NZsBbUfK47MwSOrHDWq9O3LroAqRfC.1)
Topics: Educational Psychology programs, Leadership Studies programs

Please note that this Q&A session will not cover questions about the Counselling Psychology MA program.

If you are unable to attend the Q&A, you can contact our Program Assistants at eplsgrad@uvic.ca with any questions.

Leadership is not a position; it is a process.

Education and learning are lifelong and life wide. There are formal practices and spaces of leadership, education and learning and their informal and nonformal spaces and practices of leadership, education and learning. Leadership and education are inter-connected, multidisciplinary practices that affect all areas of our lives.

In this Leadership Studies program students will investigate the roles of leaders and educators in formal, informal and nonformal contexts and the ways in which they can lead and educate for change in our contemporary world. How do we as leaders and educators respond to pressing local and global social, gender and ecological issues of our time? How do we decolonize our minds, practices and workplaces? How do we make decisions towards positive change in our schools, workplaces, community organizations and institutions?

Our program covers a broad range of themes from national and international policy and decision making to arts-based and anti-oppressive practice; from community engagement to cultural leadership from metaphors of organization to global economic and political bodies and policies that affect our daily lives. Our faculty members bring Indigenous, feminist/gendered, national, local and global perspectives to the classroom and collaborate with researchers worldwide.

This Leadership Studies program will be of interest to:

community activists
adult and community educators and practitioners
teachers and administrators in the k-12 system
literacy and social workers
administrators and educators in higher education institutions
workplace trainers and union workers
arts and culture professionals
employees in non-governmental, voluntary, women’s, inter-governmental and governmental organizations and agencies (national and international)
military and justice system workers
anti-oppressive educators