Would those school librarians also be in a teachers union with retirement and benefits invested over the years ? Also, in the case of school librarianship, would the Ed.D or "PhD Lite" be more the career path in school librarianship?
I was recently reading about :
The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate
"Who we are: CPED members are institutions who are committed to working together to undertake a critical examination of the doctorate in education with a particular focus on the highest degree that leads to careers in professional practice."
"Today, the EdD is perceived as "PhD-lite. More important than the public relations problem, however, is the real risk that schools of education are becoming impotent in carrying out their primary missions to prepare leading practitioners as well as leading scholars. The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate is working to ensure that the academy moves forward on two fronts: rethinking and reclaiming the research doctorate (the PhD) and developing a distinct professional practice doctorate (the P.P.D), whether we continue to call it an EdD or decide to give it another name."
---Lee S. Shulman, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
"The PhD is to understand the world. The EdD is to change the world." --Gordon Kirk, University of Edinburgh
Duquesne University, School of Education is part of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate.
Best, Karen
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Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty, Cataloging & Classification, The iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email:
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"Work has a greater effect than any other technique of living in the direction
of binding the individual more closely to society."
--Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Disconents
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Blanche Woolls
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As someone who was often chided about my school library doctoral graduates not going into academia, their excuse was that they were usually making $30,000 to $40,000 more when they entered the doctoral program than the faculty teaching them with better benefits and they simply couldn't afford to "start all over" as an assistant professor. Those higher salaries were awaiting them. Most of them were able to exercise their more adult teaching roles by teaching part-time in a nearby university program.
Blanche
