CPED Convening

October 21-23, 2009Duquesne University -Pittsburgh, PA

Derived from the Dissertation of Jill A. Perry, Program Director, CPED October 2009

Rise of the Ed.D.

Late 1800s-1900: Professions attach to universities to improve training and status

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Harvard (law), Johns Hopkins (medicine), Columbia (education)

Education’s experience

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1893

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Graduate courses in Ed (Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan)

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1898

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Teachers College: Russel’s PhD

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Courses: educational psychology, the history of education, and the philosophy of education

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Other: two practica in specialized areas, graduate work outside of education, and a dissertation

that demonstrated “power of independent thought and capacity to advance knowledge”•

Reality

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practica were more knowledge than skill based; dissertations were historical, not technical

Derived from the Dissertation of Jill A. Perry, Program Director, CPED October 2009

1865: President Hill

: distinction between liberal education and professional education for

goals of becoming a university. “the general perfection and improvement of the pupil” whileprofessional education provided the “culture and instruction which fits…for some chosenwalk of life”

1890: President Eliot:

“specialization to foster social usefulness”

Normal Course

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for teachers Paul Hanus

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move to administrators

1920: $2million, Henry Holmes, GSE

Ed.D.

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for students who had had a successful teaching experience and possessed a

“working knowledge of biology, psychology and the social sciences” (Cremin, 1978, p. 15)

and who sought a higher position in the school system.Curriculum: study in social theory of education, history of education, and educationalpsychology.Dissertation: teach the student to conduct an independent investigation utilizing existing

knowledge and producing a “constructive result of importance and value.”

Designed to be different

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independence, claim over field, but similar, n

o interest inResearch, banned women, and refused to give clear definition

Harvard

Derived from the Dissertation of Jill A. Perry, Program Director, CPED October 2009