Critical Voices Post

Introduction

The EdD Leadership and Policy program at UBC is grounded in the belief that it is important for participants to engage in scholarly discourse about understanding, critiquing and improving practice in educational settings. Sharing our theories in practice gives the fields in which we are working enrichment in the forms of new perspectives, stimulating inquiry, refining methodologies, expanding knowledge boundaries, fostering innovation, and building professional networks.

Much of the EdD program’s purpose, and achievement, comes from the recognition of students’ and alumni preparedness to engage in critical reflection on practice. This propensity is, in turn, sustained through an acknowledgement of the benefits derived from the enrichment of their conceptual resources which comes from being “reflective,” or introspective, about their own practice, and analytical about the concept of practice itself.

Invitation

In acknowledgement of the nature and purpose of the EdD program, editions of the online publication Critical Voice will be constituted by submissions, from the program’s current students, alumni and faculty that:

  • Focus on practice-studying practice, trying to understand practice, being constructively critical of practice, improving one’s practice
  • Provoke scholarly engagement, through the critical examination of professional practice
  • Highlight (acknowledge/celebrate) the relationship of professional experience and reflexivity, as informed through academic study and research

Publication Outline

  • The Critical Voices Journal will be published two times per year in its early stages.
  • Submissions will be posted 90 days before publication, and accepted until 30 days before publication.
  • Initial submissions will be accepted within a wide range of topics and themes. Length of submissions must be no more than 3,000 words/12 double-spaced pages.
  • Only edited submissions will be accepted. (APA 7, 12-point standard Arial or Times New Roman font, 1-inch margins.)

Themes and Topics – Open to Suggestions

  • Neo-liberalism in today’s educational systems
  • Transitions from practice to scholarship, and back again
  • What is the difference between a PhD and EdD, in practice and reflexivity, and why does it matter?
  • Social justice
  • Interdisciplinary work

Themes and Topics

  • What do they mean by skilled? What do they mean by scholarship?
  • What is the link between leadership and the EdD?
  • Indigenous education – access & practices, leadership for decolonization
  • Appreciative inquiry – applications in the field

Provocations

  • How do we expand public conversations through a praxis of crisis?
  • Where is leadership in developing educational policy?

Discussion Groups

  • Based on published submissions
  • Emerging topics and themes

Responses, Questions, ‘Where Did the Writing Take You’

  • Questions for authors and readers
  • Suggestions for further dialogue – supporting a community of practice
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