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Reclaiming the Education Doctorate: A Guidebook for (re)Designing EdD Programs is a practical guide for those seeking to (re)design a professional practice doctorate program in education that prepares Scholarly Practitioners. To tackle the comprehensive change process necessary for (re)designing the EdD, this book will guide the reader with an improvement lens that looks at the roots of the confusion of the EdD, the system that created it, and the framework that helped to reclaim it. Readers will be guided through a backward mapping (re)design process that begins with defining graduate outcomes, maps through the milestones and courses, ends with rethinking the admissions process. Along the way, readers will learn how to design and integrate a dissertation in practice into the curriculum, consider best practices for their program (re)design, and view examples of successful programs. Additionally, to support readers in their (re)design efforts, each chapter will offer exercises, tools, and resources that will guide the process. The book will prove to be an invaluable resource for anyone developing or revising their EdD program. After the opening chapter that explains the mission statement of Reclaiming the Education Doctorate, Jill Perry structures chapters to deal with the full range of issues that impact EdD programs, including: Roots of the EdD ProblemAim: The Professional Practice Doctorate Driving ChangeBackward mapping: beginning with the endThe heart of the program: CurriculumThe beginning: Admitting CandidatesMeasuring ImpactLeading Change

An Introduction to Critical Autoethnography and Education: The Vulnerable Researcher examines the practice of critical autoethnography, which combines critical pedagogy, autoethnography, and often, critical ethnography, as a research methodology for conducting research in vulnerable communities without establishing hierarchical systems. Researchers who work collaboratively with participants in these communities can provide a means for often-unheard voices to reach wider audiences. Researchers function as collaborators/participants in the research, asking themselves the same questions they ask the other participants in the research. This methodology requires reflection and introspection, as researchers examine the Self and the complexities of their cultural perspectives, whether visible or invisible, hidden beneath layers of socially constructed beliefs and behaviors. This interrogation and problematization of words and actions surpasses chronological and supposedly objective recounting of autobiography, leading to a deep understanding of the sociocultural, socioeconomic, political, and historical beliefs that created their ways of understanding and navigating the world. Traditional research situates researchers as experts. Pushing against existing norms, critical autoethnography negates hierarchical thinking, believing all collaborators co-construct equally valuable knowledge and meaning. Accessible to diverse audiences, this book would be appropriate in graduate qualitative methods or foundations courses, at introductory or advanced levels. It would also be a good addition to any undergraduate courses preparing students to conduct research in vulnerable communities. Perfect for courses such as: Qualitative Research Methods I Qualitative Research Methods II Advanced Qualitative Research Methods Social Justice in Education Research Case Study Ethnographic Research in Education Anthropology in Education Critical Qualitative Inquiry Multicultural Research Methods

Provides a narrative and illustration about the purpose and features comprising the Dissertation in Practice and how this culminating experience is suited to using Improvement Science as a signature methodology for preparing professional practitioners.

Illustrates applied organisational problem-solving using methods of Improvement Science in educational leadership. Chapters introduce Improvement Science, along with an overview, rationale, and challenges for exploring this emerging field. The reader is then led through a logical sequence of inquiry.

Deconstructing, reimagining and planning for a more meaningful, vibrant, social-just-based democracy that problematizes the normative, representative, hegemonic democracy in place that holds sway over formal relations, institutions, processes and education is central to this book.

Examines the ideologies behind the philanthropic efforts in American education from the 1970s to today. The authors examine specific strategies philanthropists have used to impact both educational policy and practice in the US as well as the legal and policy context in which these initiatives have thrived.

Offers an examination of teachers' work, its history, and its current status. However, more importantly, it is a critical analysis that lays the groundwork for moving forward and asserting a vision of the role that teachers must play in the transformation of 21st century schools that promote social justice as their first priority.

Includes bibliographical references and index.