Implications for practice - EdD
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This document provides guidance on writing the implications for practice section of an EdD (professional doctorate in education). It emphasizes that the EdD aims to make a practical contribution to change in educational practice. It advises identifying specific, achievable implications that are realistic given the candidate's position and influence, rather than broad recommendations. Examples are provided of strong implications within a coordinator's or head of school's remit. The document also stresses disseminating research to extend its impact and influence on practice beyond one's own setting.
Implications for practice - EdD
- 1. EdD – an online professional doctorate in Higher Education Dr Ian Willis EdD - Implications for Practice
- 2. Contribution to practice • EdD Criteria: …a substantial contribution to knowledge that is ... relevant to practice … the scope for impact of the research on practice • And from UK Quality Assurance Agency: …professional doctorates normally lead to professional and/or organisational change i.e. one key aim of the EdD is making a change to practice
- 3. EdDs will almost always have a section: Implications for practice • The ‘so what’ of your research • What difference will your work make to practice? • Your practice, your department, your institution and maybe wider • And how will it happen?
- 4. Here’s how NOT to do it… Recommendations (paraphrased) • Raise societal awareness of the importance of ….. • Management should…. • Increase salaries and incentives • Provide compulsory training courses … • These are simplified, but real! Don’t say what someone else should do e.g. spend money Don’t make suggestions that may be admirable, but beyond your capacity to enact or influence
- 5. Study abroad By a study abroad coordinator • Provide opportunities for study abroad participants to identify realistic, achievable goals prior to departure • Help participants identify places and activities where they can interact socially with domestic students • Provide training in cross-cultural interaction skills All specific All within the candidate’s remit all happening!
- 6. Acculturation of immigrant students By Head of School • Initiate development of a set of papers in the Master of Education Practice ….. • Initiate just-in-time staff professional development to support internationalising the curriculum • Volunteer my membership on the University Learning and Teaching working party on international experiences All specific All within the candidate’s remit all happening!
- 7. Be realistic. Be critical. • Suggestions for change need to be critically analysed • Make it real • Difficulties need to be acknowledged • How will the change happen? Make your work count by identifying realistic practical outcomes
- 8. Your implications for practice - at different ‘levels’ 1. Within your capacity to initiate or strongly input to making change • SMART goals here 2. Next level • Where you have real opportunity for influence and action 3. Further out • Supporting colleagues in comparable situations • Evidenced based proposals to institutional leadership
- 9. Impact through dissemination Change does not happen just because it’s a good idea • Have a broad dissemination strategy: • Publication • Workshops • Presentations • Blogs, webinars Make your work count by identifying ways to extend its impact
- 10. Implications for practice It’s an EdD /professional doctorate criterion Make your work count through practical change • Be realistic • Analyse what can happen in your setting • Identify what is needed to make it make • Show what you intend to do • Can be more ambitious, through the dissemination strategy, in order to influence more widely