Develop your capacity for improving Teaching & Learning, Curriculum & Theory, and Pedagogical Practice.

Focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in informal learning contexts such as museums, the program draws together Museum professionals, educators and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.

THE PROGRAM

The Master of Museum Education is a unique graduate degree program focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning contexts. This program draws together Museum professionals, educators and those with an interest in using the community to support teaching and learning to further their thinking and scholarship around museums as sites of education and learning.

This program will provide the necessary skills and knowledge for careers as educators in informal settings such as museums, locally and globally, and to support classroom-based teachers in expanding their use of the community as a learning site. The program model is one that recognizes the need for contextualizing museum education curriculum in both home country context (which has its own unique social and political context) and in the Canadian cultural context of museum education, in which practices may be conceptualized in other beneficial ways to that of the student¹s own country of origin. The end result are graduating students that are then better able to influence the systems in their own countries with strengthened capacities to introduce beneficial reforms around museum education.

APPLICATION DEADLINE

March 1, 2016

LEARN MORE

Visit pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED4 to learn more, or contact Yvette Kharoubeh at yvette.kharoubeh@ubc.ca with your questions.