Extracting meaning from data remains one of the most important tasks of research and industry. The modern age of computers and the Internet has made vast amounts of data available, making it more important than ever to understand how to collect, process, and analyze these data ethically and responsibly. Focuses on learning data science fundamentals and the pedagogical methods to integrating data science into the grade 7-12 classroom. Prerequisites: EDCI 5001, EDCI 5002, EDCI 5003, EDCI 5004.

Designed to support practitioners advanced in EFS. In collaboration with education experts, systems-thinking and leadership, students will developing a peer network committed to ecological integrity, economic vitality, and social justice. Students will also use inquiry and action research frameworks to investigate a personally meaningful question about their EFS practice. Prerequisite: EDCI 5043. Co-requisites: EDCI 5044, EDCI 5045.

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Explores the philosophical and sociological underpinnings of various critical social, decolonial, and anticolonial theories and how they have contributed to educators' pedagogical practice. Course themes include: education as the practice of freedom, the theorization of criticality and critical social theory, critical pedagogies in practice, and youth influence on critical pedagogical practices.