Fall 2024

Examination of roles and functions of higher education from historical and contemporary perspectives, with a focus on equity and urban education.

Explores urban P-20 education through social, historical, and political lenses and how research and policy shape professional practice in Los Angeles and the United States.

Provides foundational knowledge about leadership theory and practice to support students development as critically conscious leaders who take action to address inequities in urban contexts.

Social, political, economic and scholarly factors determining curriculum and instructional design and implementation and implications for formal and informal leaders in P-20 contexts are explored.

Educational leaders utilize spatial data and technologies to study their leadership trajectories across urban P-20 settings and bring inter-disciplinary approaches to curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Explores the historically complex relationship between education research, education (in)equity and personal practice, and will highlight the possibilities of research to foster justice in education through the examination of the utility of basic and applied quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods research.

Builds on EDUE 780a as students finalize their literature reviews, overview of methodology and other contextual writing for the dissertation in practice and qualifying exam.

Builds students' knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.

Builds students' knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.

Builds students knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.

Builds students knowledge and skills for analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and reporting results and findings for their Dissertations in Practice.