Faculty of Education Recognized for Environmental Education Excellence

EECOM (The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication) awarded Lakehead University’s Faculty of Education their 2022 Outstanding Post-Secondary Institution Award.

The Faculty of Education has a large contingent of faculty members at both the Thunder Bay and Orillia campuses who are deeply committed to environmental education. Collectively, they have made significant contributions to research on a wide range of environmental education topics over the years, and this passion for environmental education can be felt throughout the Faculty’s undergraduate and graduate programs.

The innovative Master of Education program in Education for Change, with its specialization in Environmental and Sustainability Education, has proven to be very popular. Highlights in the undergraduate program include being the first Ontario Faculty of Education to have a required course in environmental education, the only Faculty of Education in Canada to have a climate change education elective, and home to the longstanding Outdoor Experiential Education (OE3) specialization.

Another exciting innovation is the Faculty’s collaboration with a number of First Nations to co-develop and deliver community-based, Aki-based learning in both the graduate and undergraduate programs; Aki is the Anishnaabeg word for Land that incorporates the Earth, water, air, and spirit.