BEd in Aboriginal Adult Education

The Tecumseh Centre for Aboriginal Research and Education offers a Bachelor of Education degree in Aboriginal Adult Education.

The BEd in Aboriginal Adult Education is a community-based, part-time program that eliminates your need to travel long distances to attend school, allowing you to stay employed and take care of your family's needs. The program is also designed to address the unique circumstances of the Aboriginal adult learner and includes:

• Advanced standing for existing Native institute diplomas, university degrees and college diplomas
• Small class sizes that acknowledge Aboriginal learning preferences
• Cultural protocols are imbedded in the learning experience
• Trained Aboriginal Facilitators who will work with you and your fellow learners throughout the program
• Culturally specific support services to assist you over the rough spots
• Curriculum that balances our ways of knowing with the mainstream way of knowing
• A degree that is recognized by our communities as well as the mainstream
• Site facilitators that are from our communities

If you are currently working with or would like to work with Aboriginal adults in education, training, health or community development, then this degree is for you.

Classes are usually located at Native institutes, colleges or universities, or similar locations in both urban and rural setting. The flexibility of the program allows for small groups of learners to form a class.

Classes are held on alternating weekends.
Fridays 6 pm - 9 pm and Saturdays 9 am - 4 pm.

The application process is on going as we wait for 10 - 15 applicants in a particular area, in order to run the program. Contact us today to learn if a class is forming in your area.

Please note this program does not lead to an Ontario Teachers Qualification.