The Ed.D. as Investment in Professional Development: Cultivating Practitioner Knowledge

Authors

Margaret A. Macintyre Latta, University of British Columbia OkanaganFollow
Edmund T. Hamann, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Susan Wunder, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

Fall 2015

Citation

LEARNing Landscapes, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn 2015, pp 177-196

https://www.learninglandscapes.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/The-Ed-D.-as-Investment-in-Professional-Development-Cultivating-Practitioner-Knowledge/752

Comments

LEARNing LandscapesTM Journal is an open access, peer-reviewed, online education journal supported by LEARN (Leading English Education and Resource Network).

Abstract

As teacher educators and participants in the US-based Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate (CPED) initiative to differentiate the Ed.D/Ph.D., we have programmatic commitments to the centrality of practitioner knowledge for shaping professional development. Through CPED, we structure opportunities for local educators to develop their professional practices within their graduate studies toward an Ed.D, while maintaining full-time educational work commitments. Concurrently, we examine and document how CPED creates room, alongside concrete practice, to cultivate, promote, and value the voices, sensibilities, and capacities of practitioners engaged in advanced practices. In doing so, we confront marginalization of practitioners’ perspectives in the field and seek conditions and supports that insist on educators’ primary role in the complex project of education worldwide.