State-wide cooperative Edd

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State-wide cooperative Edd

• University of Missouri - Columbia

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Scholarly practitioner

• Social justice principles throughout curriculum
  and designated course on power, privilege, and
  difference
• Inquiry sequence throughout 2 years of coursework
  focused on problem definition
• Program evaluation, qualitative and quantitative
  methods, policy analysis courses
• Course assignments involve working with
  stakeholders (e.g., community non-profits,
  colleges and universities, schools and school
  districts)

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Signature pedagogy

• Pedagogy focused on adult learning principles
• Frames and lenses integrated throughout each
  course to look at problems from variety of
  theoretical perspectives (e.g., organizational
  theory, leadership, policy, content and context
  of learning)
• Problem-posing and praxis-focused (theory to
  practice) curriculum

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Inquiry as practice

• Inquiry and method courses designed to help
  practitioners be knowledgeable consumers of
  research
• Methods are applied

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Laboratories of practice

• Admission policy All students must be practicing
  leaders AND supervisors must provide letter of
  support acknowledging commitment to student
  throughout program
• Reflection is central aspect of coursework

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Dissertation in practice

• On-going effort to rethink traditional
  dissertation
• Developed authentic inquiry projects as
  alternative to traditional dissertation
• Program evaluation
• Policy analysis
• Action research (one cycle)
• Technical report with implications for practice
  as end product with appendices (e.g., method,
  literature review, implications for research)