Redesigning Professional Education Doctorates

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.

"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

Alisa Belzer, Rutgers University, USATricia Browne-Ferrigno, University of Kentucky, USAEdmund Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USAStephanie Jones, Texas Tech University, USAColleen MacKinnon, University of Vermont, USAJill Perry, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Duquesne University, USAR. Martin Reardon, Virginia Commonwealth University, USADeanna Sands, University of Colorado Denver, USARod Blunck, University of Colorado Denver, USAConnie 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, USAHonorine Nocon, University of Colorado Denver, USARon Tzur, University of Colorado Denver, USARick Sawyer, Washington State University, USACharol Shakeshaft, Virginia Commonwealth University, USARosemarye T. Taylor, University of Central Florida, USASusan Wunder, Edmund Hamann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA