Content and examples focus primarily on elementary-age students. I Provides students hands-on experience in conducting research in education with existing data sets. Doctoral Research Methods Introduces the beginning graduate student in education and related disciplines to the issues and processes involved in empirical research. Major alternative approaches to designing and conducting research are explored. This doctoral course focuses on a variety of process-oriented methods and analyses that have been used successfully for studying education and human development.
Students evaluate existing research and develop short research projects of their own.
A two-course sequence, restricted to matriculated doctoral students and required of all entering doctoral students. The course is designed to provide a broad introduction to central issues in educational theory and practice, and to develop analytical skills in approaching such issues. A goal of writing assignments is to help students develop their skills in making an argument. Classical and New Examines the origins, development, and multiple meanings of certain long-standing pedagogies, such as Socratic, scholastic, lecture, and case methods of teaching, in light of various critiques of and responses to these teaching methods, such as Deweyan, Freirean, and feminist pedagogies. In a workshop setting, concrete strategies for composing and revising are leanred, and a metacognitive awareness of students' writing processes is developed.