Pandemic Pivots: The Impact of a Global Health Crisis on the Dissertation in Practice
Five scholarly practitioners in an educational leadership for social justice doctoral program share their intentional, community-minded pivots during a global pandemic that disrupted their Dissertations in Practice (DiP). Embodying their Ed.D. program’s CPED framework (Carnegie Project on the Educat...
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| description | Five scholarly practitioners in an educational leadership for social justice doctoral program share their intentional, community-minded pivots during a global pandemic that disrupted their Dissertations in Practice (DiP). Embodying their Ed.D. program’s CPED framework (Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, 2019), the authors, at varying stages in the dissertation process, sought inventive solutions to COVID-19-related challenges that included the development of a new topic and research questions, adjusting study settings and participant pools, and embracing new methodologies to account for virtual-only approaches. Although uncertain how the global health crises would impact their DiP, by fostering a shared sense of community, the authors became critical friends, supporting each other in their personal, professional, and academic lives. Each narrative highlights the potential of oppositional praxis of threading identities of practice, reflection, and research–to respond creatively to the needs of their diverse research communities with compassion, vision, and agility. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c018d0c18ee444f380c704f6830a23132022-12-22T01:34:05ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghImpacting Education2472-58892021-04-016251010.5195/ie.2021.165165Pandemic Pivots: The Impact of a Global Health Crisis on the Dissertation in PracticeCassidy Alvarado0Leyda Garcia1Nikysha Gilliam2Sydney Minckler3Csilla Samay4Loyola Marymount UniversityLoyola Marymount UniversityLoyola Marymount UniversityLoyola Marymount UniversityLoyola Marymount UniversityFive scholarly practitioners in an educational leadership for social justice doctoral program share their intentional, community-minded pivots during a global pandemic that disrupted their Dissertations in Practice (DiP). Embodying their Ed.D. program’s CPED framework (Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, 2019), the authors, at varying stages in the dissertation process, sought inventive solutions to COVID-19-related challenges that included the development of a new topic and research questions, adjusting study settings and participant pools, and embracing new methodologies to account for virtual-only approaches. Although uncertain how the global health crises would impact their DiP, by fostering a shared sense of community, the authors became critical friends, supporting each other in their personal, professional, and academic lives. Each narrative highlights the potential of oppositional praxis of threading identities of practice, reflection, and research–to respond creatively to the needs of their diverse research communities with compassion, vision, and agility.http://impactinged.pitt.edu/ojs/ImpactingEd/article/view/165research pivotdissertation in practicecommunity-based researchcovid-19 pandemiccritical friend support |
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