Our mission is a commitment to lifelong learning in undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate studies to develop critical reflection, compassion, and innovation for educational leaders including teachers, community-based educators, and researchers in a variety of local and global contexts. 

The University of Prince Edward Island Faculty of Education strives in all its actions to:

• build caring, equitable, and just relationships and practices

• develop communities of creative and critical thinkers who value diversity

• promote environmental responsibility and sustainability

• practice and foster cooperation and collaboration

• enhance self-knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and personal expression

• model creative and effective teaching and learning practices

• demonstrate commitment to life-long learning and world mindedness

The Faculty of Education realizes that these goals can best be achieved through collaboration with the greater education community.

Our faculty, staff, pre-service teachers, and graduate students value:

• Active, experiential, and community-based learning

• Aesthetic appreciation, personal expression, and self-knowledge

• Caring for self and others

• Collaborative, equitable participation and authentic dialogue

• Creative and critical thinking and expression

• Environment stewardship and sustainability

• Equity, diversity, individual differences, inclusion, and social justice

• Global awareness, citizenship, and world-mindedness

• Lifelong pursuit of learning and knowledge

• Professionalism and ethical conduct

• Respect and integrity 

• Socially responsive and ethically responsible knowledge translation

• Transformative learning