EdD in Educational and Professional Practice: Humane Education
Location: AU Online
Credits for Degree: 60 semester credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Low-residency
Standard time to completion: 36 months
Program Overview
The Ed.D. program prepares change-oriented scholar-practitioners committed to advancing more just, inclusive, and sustainable schools, organizations, and communities. Through a transdisciplinary approach, the program integrates theory and practice through shared seminars, applied inquiry, and individualized specialization, enabling students to address complex challenges related to equity, ethics, leadership, and social justice
Students specialize in one of the following transdisciplinary areas of inquiry: Critical Pedagogy; Environmental and Sustainability Education; Humane Education; Multicultural and Anti-Racist Education; Social Emotional Learning; Social Justice Leadership; Waldorf Education; or Self-Designed.
Specializations may include seminars, individualized study, and opportunities to take courses across Antioch University programs. Students may also transfer approved graduate credits in alignment with program requirements. Each student’s dissertation will fall within the chosen specialization.
The program culminates in a Practice-Based Dissertation that establishes students as scholar-practitioners who design and implement meaningful, research-informed solutions to complex challenges in schools, organizations, communities, and national and global contexts.
Humane Education Specialization
The EdD Program offers the specialization in Humane Education in collaboration with the Institute for Humane Education (IHE) and is the only program of its kind at the doctoral level. According to the founders of IHE, “Education is the key to creating a more peaceful, just, and sustainable world. We prepare people to foster compassion and teach critical, systems, strategic, and creative thinking to students of all ages and in a range of educational settings” (humaneeducation.org). Humane Education is an innovative, socially-relevant educational movement that draws connections between human rights, environmental preservation, animal protection, and culture. The EdD in Educational and Professional Practice with a specialization in Humane Education will enable those grounded in Humane Education at the master’s level to develop doctoral research skills to pursue solutions to local and global problems that they encounter in their schools, organizations, and communities. Students in this specialization will explore, in an intersectional manner, issues such as environmental ethics, animal protection, human rights, culture and change, arts and social change, food systems, and “solutionary” education in the classroom. Humane Education students will have opportunities to engage with faculty from IHE both virtually and in Maine.
The specialization may be composed of seminars and individualized study. You may also choose to take courses in other Antioch programs and to transfer in credits from previous graduate work. Each student’s dissertation topic will fall within their chosen specialization.
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