Redesigning Professional Education Doctorates - by Valerie A Storey (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This volume demonstrates that Critical Friendship Theory can help distinguish education doctorate (EdD) programs from research doctorates (education PhDs). Drawing on multiple, detailed case studies of CFT implementation at universities, it covers curriculum and implementation, online and in-person education, challenges, and strategies for success.

Review Quotes

"Redesigning Professional Education Doctorates offers lessons that are associated with the roles and processes of Critical Friends relationships. Furthermore, the intentionality and feedback components of the Critical Friend Theory offer the reader experience-based insight in the redesign of the EdD. An important takeaway from the book is an understanding of how Critical Friendship Groups provide a structural component of the process. The questions answered, as well as others raised by the book, are important for universities seeking to rethink the EdD." - Teachers College Record

"A significant contribution to the needed re-invention of the education doctorate. The professional practice doctorate in education is no longer merely a proposal for the future; these accounts also offer new perspectives for re-thinking the traditional PhD." - Lee S. Shulman, President Emeritus, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus, Stanford University, USA

About the Author

Alisa Belzer, Rutgers University, USA Tricia Browne-Ferrigno, University of Kentucky, USA Edmund Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Stephanie Jones, Texas Tech University, USA Colleen MacKinnon, University of Vermont, USA Jill Perry, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Duquesne University, USA R. Martin Reardon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Deanna Sands, University of Colorado Denver, USA Rod Blunck, University of Colorado Denver, USA Connie Fulmer, University of Colorado Denver, USA Alan Davis, University of Colorado Denver, USA Maria Araceli Ruiz-Primo, University of Colorado Denver, USA Khawla Obeidat, University of Colorado Denver, USA Nancy Leech, University of Colorado Denver, USA Shelley Zion, University of Colorado Denver, USA Nancy Shanklin, University of Colorado Denver, USA Honorine Nocon, University of Colorado Denver, USA Ron Tzur, University of Colorado Denver, USA Rick Sawyer, Washington State University, USA Charol Shakeshaft, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Rosemarye T. Taylor, University of Central Florida, USA Susan Wunder, Edmund Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA