ERIC Number: EJ1326728
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Mar
Pages: 21
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Group Dissertations as Leadership Learning
Journal of Research on Leadership Education, v17 n1 p3-23 Mar 2022
This article shares rationales for group dissertations and offers practical descriptions of how they transpire in one Doctor of Education (EdD) program. Drawing on program experiences and data, it considers how group dissertations promote leadership learning and EdD program proposes using Archbald's criteria of developmental efficacy, intellectual stewardship, distinctive form, and community benefit. Suggested supports for group dissertations include clear commitments to group dissertations, admission processes attentive to group dissertation demands, an open student-centered topic and group formation process, faculty commitment to group advising, and vigilance against regressions to the familiar.
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Doctoral Dissertations, Doctoral Programs, Doctoral Students, Leadership Training, Student Centered Learning, Group Dynamics, Academic Advising, Program Design
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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