Ed.D. in Teaching and Learning: Curriculum, Advocacy, and Policy
The Doctorate of Education in Teaching and Learning with Curriculum, Advocacy, and Policy major is designed to prepare high-level scholar-practitioners to provide leadership in curriculum in a multitude of educational settings. The program emphasizes engagement in processes of critical reflection about issues of curriculum in relation to a variety of educational environments and society.
The Curriculum, Advocacy, and Policy major is founded on the belief that curriculum is best understood not simply in terms of classrooms and schools, but as connected to larger social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
Consider getting your Doctorate of Education in Teaching and Learning with Curriculum, Advocacy, and Policy at National Louis University (NLU) if you:
- Wish to participate in curriculum praxis, an understanding of how both theory and practice are necessary for action-oriented critical reflection and acting on that understanding in a variety of educational communities.
- Are dedicated to social inquiry, an understanding of the importance of contextualizing curriculum study and engaging in interdisciplinary inquiry.
- See yourself as a reflective scholar-practitioner, learning to be self-aware, to examine your own assumptions, and to move from and through emerging, developing, and advanced levels of scholarly practice.
- Bring a passion for developing the scholarship necessary to be a curriculum leader, change agent, scholar, and researcher.
- Want to prepare yourself for work as a curriculum specialist or leader in planning, organizing, and evaluating curricula at Pre-K through 12 and higher education levels.
- Seek to develop knowledge, competencies, and dispositions related to professional development of educators and professional communities.
Get more information today about enrolling in one of NLU's degree programs. Connect with an Enrollment Specialist or call 888.NLU.TODAY (888-658-8632).