The EdD Program is intended to provide participants with structured and supported opportunities to:

• Develop, through scholarly and first-hand exposure, a critical understanding of the current educational landscape and associated concerns in a variety of settings in the Yukon;
• Develop, through scholarly exposure, a critical awareness of assumptions and theories informing current and proposed educational leadership practice;
• Understand, apply, and articulate educational leadership theories, knowledge of historical and socio-cultural conditions, and a personal philosophy for land- and community-based decision making;
• Apply principles of land- and community-based education to inform policies across multiple levels;
• Articulate and advocate for organizational and leadership cultures that are critically reflective of their practices and conducive to student learning and development in response to community imperatives;
• Use knowledge of education and leadership theories in consideration of the knowledge of historical and socio-cultural conditions to influence educational development;
• Facilitate the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of land- and community-based education;
• Create and conduct a line of research that has the potential for contributing important new understandings and trajectories for educational leadership in the Yukon and broader field of education.

The program culminates in a degree of the highest standard in the profession of education.

This course is determined in context with the program theme.

The nature and impact of recent wide-ranging systemic educational reform in several different countries are critically examined, through two major themes. One theme is the politics and dynamics of governance, with a particular emphasis on participatory forms of political life in a heterogeneous society. The other theme is the politics and culture of difference, and the development of community which respects these differences.

The broad paradigms encompassing much current educational research are examined, with emphasis on their philosophical and assumptional bases, as well as general ethical and methodological issues. Particular attention is paid to the critical reading of research and the implications for educational leadership. In addition, students begin to identify a research topic and to develop a defensible research orientation.

This course will include a land-experience, in the form of an optional paddling trip down the Yukon River. This one week trip is tentatively scheduled for the second or third week of August 2023.

Investigates theories and issues associated with developing educational programs and practices in various educational contexts. Addresses the development of new programs and their implementation in schools and other educational settings.

The special responsibilities of leaders in educational institutions for accountability both to learners and to the wider community with respect to policies, practices and programs are the focus of this seminar. Contemporary approaches to program assessment and to ensuring cost-effectiveness in educational management are applied to cases emerging from student experience.

This course will be used to support students in their dissertation writing. Graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

This course will be used to support students in their dissertation writing.

This course will be used to support students in their dissertation writing.

The examination is graded on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

Normally, the comprehensive examination is completed in the term in which course requirements are completed, or the term immediately following. The comprehensive examination is completed as a written and oral examination submitted to the committee. Questions for the comprehensive examination will be posted at the beginning of the students' program.

A major part of this program is original research. A thesis describing this is submitted and defended. Upon entry to the program, every term students enroll in EDUC 899-15 Doctoral Thesis.