The Midnorthern Centre works in close collaboration with the Department of Sociology in Education (OISE/UT); the Indigenous Educational Network (OISE/UT); First Nations; the Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute; the Northeastern Centre; the Centre de recherches en education du Nouvel-Ontario (CHENO); and the regional office of the Ministry of Education and Training. The Centre takes an integrated approach to graduate studies, research, and field development using mainly the perspectives, concepts, ideas and methods of both classical sociology and critical pedagogy within the new sociology of education. These guide the range of large-scale and small-scale projects relating to Native education; policies and practices in education innovation; the school and the community; and child abuse prevention, student deviance, and violence in schools. The Centre's involvement in research and development projects includes: inclusiveness, equity, excellence and relevance in education pertaining specifically to Aboriginal people; First Nations/provincial school boards tuition negotiations, tuition agreements, tuition agreement schooling, and tuition agreement implementation; inter-agency collaboration; child abuse prevention; and school, community and school council implementation. Most graduate course offerings are in Sociology in Education, Curriculum, and Educational Administration. Centre faculty supervise master's research projects, Qualifying Research Papers, and both master's and doctoral theses.