Program Overview

Program Overview

The Master of Education (M.Ed.) program, also known as the Integrated Master of Education, is a two-year program that explores various research areas, including the interdisciplinary and international study of Indigenous education, anti-racist and anti-oppressive education, ecological, environmental, place-based and land-based education, teacher education, sexual orientation and gender study, lives of teachers, children, and parents, climate change education, and critical pedagogy, neoliberalism, and education for democracy.

Program Structure

The program can be completed as a thesis- or course-based program through online classes or face-to-face approaches over two years. There is the opportunity to take courses online and then participate in a Summer Institute. The course-based route may include a capstone component. In consultation with faculty advisors, both thesis and course-based students will design their program around a specific theme.

Summer Institutes

The Summer Institutes offer an intensive, transformative experience. For the summer 2025 term, students can register for one or both of the following courses to complete over a three-week period:

• EFDT 844.3: Theory and Practice of Anti-Racist Education
• EFDT 817.3: Reorienting Anti-Racist Education in Disorienting Times

Research Supervisors

The program has a list of research supervisors with their areas of specialization:

• Geraldine Balzer: Teacher education, Secondary school English language arts, Decolonization, Transformative education, Service learning
• Carmen Gillies: Anti-racist/oppressive education, critical race theory, Métis education, critical social/digital media, multi-racial studies
• Luke Heidebrecht: Place-based Pedagogies, Experiential Education, Climate Change and Climate Justice Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education
• Lynn Lemisko: Mentorship, history of education, history of teacher education
• Shaun Murphy: Teacher education, curriculum studies, mathematics education, teacher & children knowledge of school, narrative inquiry, and more
• Julia Paulson:
• Stavros Stavrou:
• Karla Williamson: Epistemologies, Cross-culturality, Multi-culturalism, Inuit World views, Gender relations, Resilience and Aboriginal peoples
• Alex Wilson: Indigenous knowledge, Cree cosmology, Indigenous and Cross-Cultural research methodologies, Queering Education, Two-spirit identity

Tuition and Funding

Limited scholarships may be available for accepted thesis-based students. Scholarships will be reviewed after March 1st. Graduate students at USask can receive funding from a variety of sources to support their graduate education.

Tuition

• Thesis or project-based master's program:
  • Canadian students: $1,881.00 CAD per term
  • International students: $4,232.00 CAD per term
• Course-based master's, certificate or postgraduate diploma program:
  • Canadian students: $295.80 CAD per graduate credit unit
  • International students: $665.50 CAD per graduate credit unit

Student Fees

In addition to tuition, students also pay fees for programs like health and dental insurance, a bus pass, and other campus services.

Admission Requirements

• Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) from a recognized college or university or documented and approved equivalency
• Language Proficiency Requirements: Proof of English proficiency may be required for international applicants and for applicants whose first language is not English.
• A cumulative weighted average of at least 70% (USask grade system equivalent) in the last two years of study (i.e. 60 credit units)

Application Process

• Submit an online application
• Submit required documents:
  • Transcripts
  • Proof of English language proficiency (if required)
  • Additional documents:
    1. A curriculum vitae or resume
    2. A statement/letter of intent with the following information:
    • If you are requesting a thesis or course-based program and the term you wish to start
    • A 600-800 word essay outlining how your personal and academic background prepares you for the program of study you wish to undertake. In your essay, we invite you to consider the following questions:
      • What are my personal and professional aspirations in taking this program of study?
      • How has my academic background, personal life, and work experience prepared me for undertaking this program of study?
      • To what questions am I seeking answers?
      • What is my experience with writing academic papers?
      • How would I describe my writing capacities?
      • What other ways do I engage and share knowledge?