The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate

Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change

Stephanie Smith Budhai, Deanna Hill, Jill Alexa Perry, Stephanie Smith Budhai, Deanna Hill

• Publisher: Myers Education Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781975505516
• eBook ISBN: 9781975505530
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Leadership in Education

2025 SPE Outstanding Book Award Honorable Mention

The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate: Developing Socially-Just Leaders to Make Equitable Change is a collection of shared counternarratives between EdD alums and their supervising professor mentors, detailing their dissertation in practice (DiP) journeys as scholarly practitioners and the impact of the scholarly practitioner doctorate on their paths from doctoral students to socially-just leaders in a wide range of educational fields. The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate posits these relationships as the catalyst in bringing theory learned in course work to scholarly research that is positioned within practice, focused on contributing to equity-centered work. The book serves as an exemplar learning companion to a wide audience and diverse EdD programs looking to modify, develop, or redesign their programs to align with The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) concepts including signature pedagogy, laboratories of practice, inquiry as practice and mentoring and advising. The IMPACT of the Scholarly Practitioner Doctorate demonstrates how change in education, community, and organizations have been impacted in efficacious ways. EdD students and their supervising professors, faculty, and administrators will be able to use this book's content as their own catalyst for building socially-just leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions while preparing their EdD students to exhibit equitable change in the professional practice areas they are in.

Perfect for courses such as: Introduction to Educational Research; Social Justice Education Foundations; Leadership for Equity and Social Change; Transformative Leadership; Foundations of Inquiry for Social Justice; Qualitative Inquiry for Social Justice; Critical Perspectives for Equity in Education; Engaging in Critical Social Theories for Designing Research for Equity and Social Justice; Reform and Change for Social Justice; Educational Leadership Development

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Opening Doors: Advancing Equity through Teamwork in Suburban Schools
• Chapter 2. From Equality to Equity in EdD Programs: Beyond Having a “Place at the Table” to Having a “Voice” to Transform the Academy
• Chapter 3. A Dissertation in Practice: Individual and Collaborative Efforts to Support Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in a Predominantly Hispanic High School
• Chapter 4. A Laboratory of Socially-Just Leadership
• Chapter 5. The Importance of a Community of Practice: Turning Disillusionment into a Catalyst for Change
• Chapter 6. Keeping One Another Charged for an Evolving Antiracist Journey
• Chapter 7. “I Am … a Socially-Just Leader”: Capturing the Empowerment of Scholarly Practitioners Through Poetry
• Chapter 8. Creating a Socially-Just and Equitable EMBA Program for Women
• Chapter 9. Diné Scholars, Practitioners, and Activists
• Chapter 10. “We Make the Road by Walking”: The Ongoing Development and Impact of Social Justice Leaders
• Chapter 11. Restorative Mentorship to Promote Reciprocal Collaboration for Socially-Just Leadership
• Chapter 12. Mentoring in Color: The Journey of One Black Doctoral Candidate and her Mentors from Problem of Practice to Dissertation and Beyond
• Epilogue
• Appendix A. Poem template: “I am … a Socially Just Leader”: Capturing the Empowerment of Scholarly Practitioners Through Poetry
• Appendix B. Dissertations by Members of the Navajo Nation Who Have Obtained an EdD at Fielding
• About the Authors
• Index