Doctor of Education (EdD) in Transformative Learning for the Global Community |
2025-2026 GRADUATE STUDIES CATALOG
Effective 1 June 2025 through 31 May 2026
Please see the Graduate Catalog Archives for PDF versions of past catalogs.
This program is offered by the School of Education and is available asynchronous online.听
Admission to this program is offered once a year in the Fall 1 term.
Program Description
色色福利社's Doctor of Education (EdD) in Transformative Learning in the Global
Community is an interdisciplinary program designed for educators, administrators,
and practitioners from various academic backgrounds.
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The EdD is based on a scholar-practitioner model with a well-rounded program for fostering
transformative scholarship, research and leadership among candidates who aspire to
make a difference in today's world. The program is built with a holistic framework
with four foci: theory, research, practice and leadership. The program values social
consciousness, criticality and advocacy. Social consciousness corresponds to the connectedness
of the dissertation projects to the sociopolitical, socioeconomic and sociocultural
contexts. Criticality refers to doctoral students' critical thinking and analytical
capacity to challenge the status quo and create new proposals for advancing the knowledge
base and specialty area. Advocacy reminds students to take the findings from their
research projects to the next level and become a voice and advocate for the people
for whom they represent and care. 色色福利社's doctoral program also values
projects which engage in cross-cultural research with global contextual relevancy.
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The program duration is approximately three years (maximum is seven). Students take
coursework in the first two years and complete a dissertation or doctoral digital
portfolio in the third, with the exception of students with a conferred Educational
Specialist (EdS) degree. Students admitted with a conferred EdS are waived 15 credit
hours, equivalent to one year of coursework. Students will need special permission
from the Dean if the duration of study exceeds seven years.
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Note: This program does not lead to initial teacher or administrator certification through
the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).
Learning Outcomes
The doctor of education develops scholars, scholar-practitioners, and leaders with expertise in research and scholarship through coursework with social conscious perspectives. The program provides learning opportunities for students to develop academic competency through theory building, practical application of research knowledge in school settings and leadership skills. The EdD program enables students to:
- Investigate and critically analyze current affairs, issues, theoretical issues, empirical studies, practice and policy in educational settings.
- Read and write with synthetic and analytical competence for applying complex theories in research and publishing in respected peer-reviewed journals and other publication venues in the field.
- Conduct research for pushing boundaries in a specialty area in education and shed new light in the building of knowledge base.听
- Reflect on the status quo in educational settings and offer data-driven and evidence-based solutions and proposals.
- Develop leadership skills to become a voice and advocate for the people they respect.
- Demonstrate respect of diversity through their ability to facilitate and model collaborative inquiry for advancing social and institutional change.
Program Requirements
This program requires at least two years of advanced coursework prior to the successful completion of a comprehensive exam, a prospectus and a dissertation or a doctoral digital portfolio, except students with conferred EdS degree. Students admitted with a conferred EdS degree are waived 15 credit hours, equivalent to one year of coursework.
Required Courses
- EDOC 7120 Global Histories and Politics in Education (3 hours)
- EDOC 7130 Transformative Lens in Educational Technologies (3 hours)
- EDOC 7140 Transformative Leadership in Education: Equity and Ethics (3 hours)
- EDOC 7150 Social Justice and Transformative Learning in Global Education (3 hours)