Ranked among the top 85 faculties of education worldwide, the Faculty of Education offer its students many opportunities at the world's largest bilingual university. Our highly sought-after graduates go on to a wide range of careers in administration, academia, education, health, public service, research and beyond.
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Our studies
Undergraduate studies
Join one of the most dynamic and innovative Teacher Education programs in Canada and learn from educational leaders who have robust research relationships and professional partnerships with local, national and international communities. With social justice as a core value, we train educators who will pursue equity, diversity, inclusion and decolonization in their future working environments and who are prepared for the career challenges of teaching in the 21st century.
Graduate Studies
Pursue your graduate studies in education at one of Canada’s top 50 research universities. Future educators, researchers or professionals can earn additional qualifications, a graduate diploma or an MA, MEd, or PhD degree working with our internationally distinguished professors in fields such as counselling psychology, health professions education, leadership, evaluation, curriculum or policy studies, societies, cultures and languages, teaching and learning, minority language education and inclusion, Enseignement en santé or Éducation en milieux linguistiques minoritaires et inclusion.
Many program options are available at the Faculty of Education:
Professional Development Program
This program provides teachers with opportunities to enhance their teaching skills in order to add to their Basic Qualifications other Qualifications recognized by the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT).
Teachers can take Additional Qualification Courses (AQ Courses) to upgrade and gain qualifications in a certain teaching division or subject area or The purpose of Additional Basic Qualification (ABQ) courses to expand your knowledge of program development, delivery, and assessment in a specific division.
World Leaders in Educational Research
The Faculty of Education unites a dynamic, diverse and interdisciplinary community of researchers working at the forefront of educational technology, policy, practice and innovation. As leaders in their fields, our professors are engaged in world-class research aimed at making a difference.
Learn more about our innovative research.
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Education
What can the Métis sash teach us about truth, and then reconciliation, for educators?
Métis scholar Madelaine McCracken (MEd ’21) knew she wanted to be a teacher when she was just eight years old. What she didn’t know was where her yout…
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Education
Bringing reconciliation education and resources to the classroom
Research project shows how early learning about reconciliation inspires students to join social justice movements in Canada.
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Education
Talking about gender diversity and inclusion in Canadian education
This is a new and fragile time in education, says Lee Airton, assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies in Education at Queen’s University. …
Professor Joel Westheimer
Professor Joel Westheimer
What's the point of university?
"We've reframed universities as job training institutions, but that's a very individualized view....It's an emaciated view of the historic ideal of a…
Tracy Vaillancourt
Tracy Vaillancourt
How summer camps are helping support kids' mental health
"It's not going to represent the panacea, especially for those who have really complex issues, but it will be a reprieve for many. For some of them, t…
Professor Sachin Maharaj
Professor Sachin Maharaj
Francophone schools in Manitoba banning cell phones in classrooms
"We’re increasingly concerned, not just about academic achievement, but social and emotional well-being as well."
Sep 26
Queer wellbeing: The mental health of LGBTQ+ people post-pandemic
People who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual/gender minority identities (LGBTQ+) are a historically marginalize…
Sep 27
Day of Reconciliation
To remind ourselves of the role of education in enacting the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and to prepare ourselves for…
Sep 28
Artificial intelligence in higher education: What role does it have in student learning?
Join us for the next event in the Faculty of Education's Research Conversations Series. Register for this conversation happening on September 28, 202…
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Ottawa Campus
Lamoureux Hall (LMX)
145 Jean-Jacques-Lussier Private, Room 143
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5
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Windsor campus
To reach us
Centre communautaire francophone Windsor-Essex-Kent
720 Ouellette Avenue
Windsor, Ontario
N9A 1C2 CANADA
Telephone: 519-948-6553
Fax: 519-948-9069
Email: [email protected]
Toronto Campus
The campus is temporarily located at Collège Boréal until August 28, 2023 and will be relocated to 60 Distillery Lane starting August 29th 2023.
To reach us
Collège Boréal
60 Distillery Lane
Toronto ON M5A 3C4
Telephone: (416) 289-5130
Toll-free: 1 800 860-8577
Email: toronto@uOttawa.ca
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We pay respect to the Algonquin people, who are the traditional guardians of this land. We acknowledge their longstanding relationship with this territory, which remains unceded.
We pay respect to all Indigenous people in this region, from all nations across Canada, who call Ottawa home.
We acknowledge the traditional knowledge keepers, both young and old. And we honour their courageous leaders: past, present, and future.