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Master of Education

MEd in Curriculum & Instruction: Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Method of delivery:
Blended
Applications open:
October 1, 2025
Applications close:
February 1, 2026
Next start date:
September 2026 (tentative)

What and how we read alongside youth matters. From picture books to blockbuster films, students will learn the skills necessary to critically read texts produced for youth while co-creating a range of pedagogies for teaching in B.C.鈥檚 culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Designed for

Practicing K-12 teachers, librarians and students with an interest in children鈥檚 and young adult literature.

Program Structure

  • Cohort-based with seven 5-unit courses over six terms (two years)
  • Classes meet five to six times per term on Friday evenings (synchronous online*) and Saturdays (SFU Vancouver campus)
  • Summer term classes may meet during the week in the daytime
  • Designed for working professionals
  • Workshops with published authors and illustrators

*Synchronous classes run in real-time, with students and instructors attending together from different locations.

Intake Schedule

Next Start Term
Fall 2026 (subject to receiving sufficient qualified applications)

PROGRAM DESIGN & COURSES

Program Design

Designed with working professionals in mind, this two-year degree program offers the opportunity to obtain a high-quality master's degree. Our cohort-based model allows students to work through the program and coursework together (18-24 students).

Working with a cohesive and interdisciplinary faculty team, students will benefit from a rich curriculum and experience that will balance theoretical trends in the study of children鈥檚 and young adult literature with hands on teaching strategies. The program was designed to provide opportunities for students to:

  • understand children鈥檚 and young adult literature as a genre with its own traditions and histories;
  • analyze compositional elements of visual images and how graphic narratives like picturebooks, comics, cartoons, and film communicate;
  • understand the relationships between texts for youth and shifting cultural constructions of 鈥渃hildhood鈥 and 鈥渁dolescence鈥 and what kinds of stories adults believe youth need and/or should be shielded from;
  • develop knowledge about BIPOC children鈥檚 and YA authors and illustrators and how to select and teach engaging culturally responsive texts in B.C.鈥檚 culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms;
  • demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of Indigenous children鈥檚 and YA literature and develop strategies for teaching First People鈥檚 literature, especially to meet the new requirement (beginning 2023-24) set out by the B.C. Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the First Nations Education Steering Committee, that secondary students complete Indigenous-focused coursework before graduation.

Additionally, students will learn directly from authors/illustrators to understand the craft of creating narratives for youth and for communicating that creative process to young people via 1-day workshops with authors and illustrators.

Courses

Students complete:

EDUC 848-5 IDEAS AND ISSUES IN AESTHETIC EDUCATION

This first course provides a survey of children鈥檚 literature (K-grade 8). Students will understand children's literature as a genre with its own tradition and history; analyze compositional elements of visual images and how graphic narratives like picturebooks, comics, cartoons, and film communicate; understand the relationships between texts for youth and shifting cultural constructions of "childhood" and "adolescence".

EDUC 820-5 CURRENT ISSUES IN CURRICULUM AND PEDAGOGY

TBD

832-5 The Art and Discipline of Writing and Teaching

This course provides an in-depth study of Indigenous children鈥檚 literature and pedagogies. It is taught by Dr. Sara Davidson a Haida literacy scholar and published picture book author for young readers.

Educ 830-5 Implementation of Educational 尤物视频

TBD

EDUC 816-5 DEVELOPING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND PRACTICES FOR DIVERSE EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS

This course focuses on environmental justice within and ecologies of children鈥檚 and young adult literature.

EDUC 823-5 CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION IN AN INDIVIDUAL TEACHING SPECIALTY

TBD

EDUC 883-5 MED COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION

The examination is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Program courses and order of delivery subject to change.

LOCATION

At SFU, campus life is rich with opportunities to engage with people, ideas and activities that contribute to personal development and a better world.

Vancouver

Our Vancouver campus transformed the landscape of urban education in downtown Vancouver. The campus comprises multiple facilities clustered in the core of one of the world鈥檚 most liveable cities.

尤物视频 respectfully acknowledges the unceded traditional territories including, the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh 脷xwumixw (Squamish), s蓹l虛ilw虛蓹ta蕯涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) Nations, on which SFU Vancouver is located.

FACULTY

The strengths of the program rest in the years of experience and broad expertise of its teaching faculty. Meet some of the faculty members teaching in this program.

FUTURE PATHWAYS

Where can this program take you? The world is changing rapidly and so is the full range of career and academic opportunities that await.

Occupations

  • Teachers
  • Teacher-librarians

Further Studies

STUDENT EXPERIENCES

Meet some Children's Literature MEd students and alumni.

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UPCOMING INFORMATION SESSIONS

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