The development and enactment of practitioner scholarship among graduates from one online Ed.D. programme

Abstract

Practitioner scholarship encompasses the dispositions and skills necessary for educators to effect change for marginalised students in their local contexts. Ed.D. programmes play a role in helping educators develop these traits. Understanding what practitioner scholarship can look like post-graduation could inform programme planning as well as inspire broader audiences to support these efforts. In this interview study of 11 graduates from one online Ed.D. programme at a research-intensive university, we describe post-graduation enactment of practitioner scholarship. Graduates’ proactive stances reflected a social justice-oriented disposition and mastery of skills related to uses of scholarly literature and data.