Today’s episode features guests Frances Rust, PhD and Roberta Schomburg, PhD.  In the late 1970s, the Carnegie Foundation began to explore the differences between a PhD and an EdD. All too often it seemed that teachers and administrators found the PhD to have little relevance to their world of practice. At the same time, those in the university were concerned that the results of research were not being integrated into practice.  These concerns gave rise to a question, “What can be done to make the EdD both scholarly and practically relevant?”  No one wants the EdD to be a PhD lite. At the same time, there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on what substantive practitioner scholarship should look like. Dr. Rust and Dr. Schomburg bring their wealth of experience in working with students at the doctoral level to this conversation about the nature of doctoral study and the dissertation as part of doctoral work. 

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