138 Is It Time to Bring Back a Practitioner-Focused Doctorate?

Wednesday, April 2, 2014: 8:00 AM-9:15 AM
Convention Center: 124
Physical Education: Professional Preparation/Post-Secondary
Intended Audience: Post Secondary Instructor/Faculty
Panelists: Kathleen M. Haywood, University of Missouri–St. Louis, St. Louis, MO; Catherine Ennis, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC; Judith E. Rink, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and Linda Gagen, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
Many universities now offer practitioner-focused graduate degrees. In education, the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) has spearheaded redesign of the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree as a practitioner degree. Ed.D. students are scholarly practitioners in this model, blending professional skills and knowledge with practical wisdom to identify, analyze, and solve problems of practice. Would physical education benefit from preparing scholarly practitioners at the doctoral level to facilitate transformative change in the field? (CEU)
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