The Professional Doctorate in Education: Activism, Transformation and Practice

Lesley Saunders · Dave Trotman

Feb 2022 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The book explores and analyses, from a variety of conceptual perspectives, the encounters with self and others that professional doctorate programmes in education both necessitate and enable. It documents the ways in which professional identities, bodies of knowledge and practices are thereby challenged, renegotiated and strengthened. It comprises 14 chapters written by academic staff engaged in professional doctorate programmes in education and by professional practitioners who have undertaken doctoral study.

The volume is both useful and provocative, offering insights to colleagues who design and deliver EdD programmes in thinking through some crucial conceptual and practical issues. It will also help existing and potential EdD students to assess what they can gain from, and contribute to, doctoral-level study and their professional contexts.

About the author

Lesley Saunders holds a Visiting Professorship at University College London’s Institute of Education, and an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Department of Education at Oxford University. She is an honorary member of the Chartered College of Teaching, and worked for 13 years at the National Foundation for Educational Research, where she set up and headed the NFER’s School Improvement Research Centre. After holding a short-term secondment at the World Bank, she was appointed Senior Policy Adviser for Research at the General Teaching Council for England. She now works as an independent part-time consultant, with clients ranging from Save the Children in Kosovo to individual university departments of education.

Dave Trotman is formerly Professor of Education Policy at Newman University, Birmingham, UK, where he led the Newman Professional Doctorate in Education. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University and External Examiner for the EdD in Health and Wellbeing at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He has published work in the fields of creativity and imagination in education, education policy, school exclusion, and educational evaluation.

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