The Modern Education Doctorate: Faculty Perceptions and Program Design in the United Kingdom and the United States

• In Event: 44.084 - Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: 44.084-21 - Doctoral Education Across the Disciplines: Roundtable Session 3

Abstract

This research study aimed to explore the similarities and differences in the EdD and PhD (Education) programmes across faculties in the UK and the USA. The researchers from either side of the Atlantic wished to understand better faculty perceptions of the EdD compared to those of the PhD; the differences in the taught component (stage 1) of the two programmes; and the differences in the capstone. The first phase of the study was a survey, which examined institutions across the UK, and the US delivering the EdD and this was followed by a series of qualitative interviews completed by programme leaders of the EdD in the US and the UK.

Authors

• Valerie Anne Storey, University of Central Florida

• John Anthony Fulton, University of Sunderland