The Action Research Ed.D.: An Approach to Developing Effective Scholar-Practitioners

• In Event: Roundtable Session 42
  In Roundtable Session: Learning and Teaching in Educational Leadership

Abstract

For the past decade, educational leadership departments across the country have been redesigning their curriculum to better meet the needs of today’s school leaders. In so doing, many programs and departments have found it difficult to strike a balance between rigor, practicality, and logistics. This proposed paper is aimed at examining concepts related to action-oriented research and scholarship in the EdD; work that holds the potential to transcend the borders that exist between scholars and practitioners in educational leadership.

Authors

• April L. Peters, University of Georgia

• Karen C Bryant, University of Georgia

• Sheneka M. Williams, University of Georgia