RC012 Preparing Educators to be Transformational Change Agents with Dr. Jill Alexa Perry

Dr. Jill Alexa Perry is the Executive Director at Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED). She is a Professor of the Practice, Administrative and Policy Studies, University of Pittsburg.

Her research focuses on professional doctorate preparation and education, organizational change in higher education and faculty leadership roles. Dr. Perry's publications have appeared in Planning and Changing Journal, Journal of School Public Relations, Innovation in higher Education as well as several books and practitioner journals.

Dr. Perry is a graduate of the University of Maryland where she received her Ph.D in International Education Policy. She holds an MA in Higher Education Administration and an BA in Spanish and International Studies from Boston College.

She has over twenty years of experience in leadership and program development in education and teaching experience at the elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate levels in the US and abroad. She is Fulbright Scholar and return Peace Corps volunteer.

Dr. Jill Alexa Perry joins us this week to discuss the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED).

"We need to have that distinction in education, where there is respect for the practical application in the same way there is respect for the PhD research..."

"We, as school of education people, have an OPPORTUNITY to use the skills and knowledge we have to prepare people in multiple ways to be change agents..."

This week on the Roll Call Podcast:

• The beginning of CPED
• Important distinctions between EdD and PhD
• A flexible framework
• What do the candidates get out of it?
• Is an EdD harder than a PhD?
• Why current practitioners would choose to pursuit a PhD

Resources Mentioned:

• https://www.cpedinitiative.org
• Impacting Education: Journal on Transforming Professional Practice - http://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ImpactingEd

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