Master of Museum Education information Session - Sept 28

GreetingsThe Master of Museum Education (MED5) program starting September 2018 (application deadline is March 2018) is having  an online information session on Thursday, September 28, 4pm-5:30pm (PDT).

The MED5 is a part-time, blended cohort graduate program open to domestic and international students – it is delivered 90% online.  Focusing on the study of education and learning that occurs in museums and other informal learning context, the programs draws together museum professionals and 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.

If you are interested in the MED5 program and would like to learn more, please RSVP to the online info session, which will be held using the BlueJeans conferencing system. 

MM.Ed. | Master of Museum Education (MED5)

Online 90% | In-Person 10%

Begins September 2018 | Apply by March 1

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

THE PROGRAM

As museums contemplate new roles within society it will be incumbent upon museum professionals, and particularly museum educators, to become catalysts for different ways of thinking about the educational roles and potentials of museums and other informal learning sites, teaching and learning in museum settings as well as exploring new relationships between museums and the broader community.

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 student’s 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, 2018

LEARN MORE: Visit pdce.educ.ubc.ca/MED5 to learn more, or contact Yvette Kharoubeh at yvette.kharoubeh@ubc.ca with your questions.