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Educational Leadership
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The Educational Leadership Program prepares its students to become instructional leaders in public and non-public schools, as well as in state agencies and new entrepreneurial ventures. Students gain a deep understanding about the context of American education from anthropological, historical, and sociological perspectives and about the central elements of instructional, organizational, public, and evidenced-based leadership. Students develop a variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical skills that are required to identify, understand, and assess the quality of evidence about educational problems. In their studies, they come to understand the dynamics of change, to appreciate the importance of resistance, and to value the human side of all educational enterprise. They draw from all of this knowledge to wrestle with the complexities involved in promoting the ongoing transformation of public and non-public educational organizations.
A focus on inquiry-based leadership cuts across the program’s four interrelated core content areas: Instructional Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Public Leadership, and Evidence-Based Leadership.
Master of Science in Education (M.S.Ed.)
The M.S.Ed. in Educational Leadership requires a minimum of 10 course units of approved graduate work beyond the baccalaureate degree. Students must satisfy a distributional requirement that demonstrates breadth within the field of education and write a master’s research paper in order to complete the degree requirements. The applicant is strongly encouraged to have at least two years of successful work experience in educational settings prior to application.
Program of Study
Core Courses
EDUC 544.001 School & Society
EDUC 618 Leadership of Educational Organizations
EDUC 668 Master’s Research Seminar
One research methodology course such as:
EDUC 672 Introduction to Ethnographic Methods
EDUC 677 Introductory Statistics in Educational Research
One Distribution Course (a course taken within GSE, but outside of the academic division)
Five Elective Courses, such as
EDUC 548 American Education Reform
EDUC 550 Educational and Social Entrepreneurship
EDUC 564 Moral Values and the Schools
EDUC 660 Qualitative Approaches to Program Evaluation in Urban Schools
EDUC 547 Anthropology & Education
EDUC 616 Foundations of Teaching & Learning
EDUC 519 Evaluation of Assessment in Classroom and Policy Uses
Doctor of Education (Ed.D.)
The Ed.D. in Educational Leadership requires a minimum of 20 course units of approved graduate work beyond the baccalaureate degree. Applicants are expected to hold a masters degree and have completed several years of work experience. The program will accept up to eight course units of relevant graduate-level coursework towards the degree taken prior to enrollment at Penn GSE. Doctoral students must complete a residency requirement of at least four approved course units taken within two successive terms. They must also take a set of written examinations in the area of specialization and complete a dissertation on a problem in education to complete the course of study.
Program of Study
Core Courses
EDUC 646 Education, Culture, and Society
EDUC 664 Doctoral Foundations of Teaching & Learning
EDUC 621 Doctoral Proseminar
Three Research Methodology Courses, including:
EDUC 672 Introduction to Ethnographic Methods
EDUC 677 Introductory Statistics in Educational Research
and one advanced research methods course
Specialization Course in Leadership
EDUC 618 Leadership in Educational Institutions
And two additional courses such as:
EDUC 624 Schools as Organizations
EDUC 702 Conceptual Models of Educational Administration
EDUC 519 Evaluation of Assessment Classroom and Policy Uses
EDUC 545 Politics of Educational Leadership
EDUC 545 Budgeting for Schools and Districts
EDUC 545 Creating Cultures of Learning
EDUC 508 Managing People
Elective Courses
With your advisor, choose graduate-level elective courses totaling 20 course units. Eight course units may be transferred from previous graduate study upon faculty review and approval.
Students must take and pass the doctoral qualifying and preliminary examinations, be admitted to candidacy, and write and pass a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to education to complete requirements for the degree.
- Penn GSE Application (apply on-line or download application)
- Application fee
- Curriculum Vitae or resume
- Score report from the Graduate Records Examination (as reported by ETS)
- Statement of purpose
- Three letters of recommendation
- Academic transcripts from all undergraduate and graduate institutions
- International applicants must also supply the score report from the TOEFL or IELTS examinations
Application Deadlines
Applications for the M.S.Ed. degree program are reviewed on a rolling basis until the degree program is full. The application deadline for the Ed.D. degree program is February 15, 2008. Applications submitted afterwards may be reviewed for admission until the program is full. Admission to both programs is for the fall term only. Both full-time and part-time study may be accommodated.
Joan Goodman, Ed.D., Harvard University
Peter Kuriloff, Ed.D., Harvard University
James H. Lytle, Ed.D., Stanford University
Harris Sokoloff, Ph.D., Syracuse University
Jon Supovitz, Ed.D., Harvard University
Vernell Edwards, MSOD, Division Coordinator
Foundations and Practices in Education
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
3700 Walnut Street, Room 413
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216
Phone: 215-746-2566
For more information please contact us or call 1-877-PENNGSE (736-6473).
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