Background

In 2012, our flagship project, the Sustainability and Education Policy Network Canada (SEPN-Canada) began began the world’s first large-scale, national-level research collaboration by collecting and analyzing comparable data across Canada’s formal education system.

SEPN-Canada was funded by a $2 million Partnership Grant from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), with an additional $1 million in funding from our partner and contributor organizations.

SEPN-Canada’s ambitious research program has involved examining and comparing the range of sustainability policies and practices being developed, implemented, and experienced in Canadian primary, secondary, and post-secondary contexts.

The work has included studies of all 13 provincial and territorial Ministries of Education, 374 school divisions, and 220 accredited post-secondary institutions in Canada. SEPN’s research in Canada and its research toolkit have received much interest by researchers and policy analysts internationally, within and beyond education.

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Methods

SEPN’s research is conducted through three main research methods and includes an extensive strategy for ensuring its research results are useful and used by key educational stakeholders, including policy-makers, sustainability staff, educational practitioners, and researchers.

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