Special Education Doctoral Programs

Doctoral programs in health professions education.

The interest to pursue doctoral degrees in the health professions is increasing exponentially. Some reasons for this increase include innovations in curriculum and instructional strategies, competency-based assessment, particularly at the postgraduate level, and accreditation requirements. Through various electronic search methods, interviews, review of documents and site visits, 24 structured ...

Doctoral education in China

Doctorate holders represent a crucial human resource for research and innovation. As a site for the production of new knowledge and new knowledge making practices, doctoral education has recently become ‘a matter of increasing interest and concern’ in many parts of the world (Lee & Green, 1995, p. 2), as a consequence of educational reforms. In China, postgraduate education is a borrowed concep...

Doctoral Nursing Education in Japan

Current Status Doctoral nursing education in Japan has changed rapidly over the past 20 years, resulting in the move of nursing education fully into the higher education system in Japan, with appropriate student numbers and quality. In 1988 the first establishment of doctoral nursing education occurred at St. Luke’s College of Nursing Tokyo, after which the number of doctoral programs in Nursin...

Effectively Working with the Doctoral Program Committees: A Transformative Learning Experience of Doctoral Graduates in an Adult Education or Education Related Programs

Educating Knowledgeable and Skilled Researchers in Doctoral Programs in Schools of Education: A New Model

To better understand how skilled and knowledgeable researchers develop in schools of education, the process of becoming a successful researcher needs to be explored. The purpose of the paper is to present three theories/studies including scientific and technical human capital, Levine’s study of schools of education, and Lovitts’ model of the factors that lead doctoral students to be successful ...