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Podcast: Speaking of Education Podcast
Episode: Exploring the Nature of Doctoral Work With Guests Frances Rust, PhD and Roberta L. Schomburg, PhD
Description: Today’s episode features guests Frances Rust, PhD and Roberta Schomburg, PhD. In the late 1970s, the Carnegie Foundation began to explore the differences between a PhD and an EdD. All too often it seemed that teachers and administrators found the PhD to have little relevance to their world of practice. At the same time, those in the university were concerned that the results of research were not being integrated into practice. These concerns gave rise to a question, “What can be done to make the EdD both scholarly and practically relevant?” No one wants the EdD to be a PhD lit...