Academic Programs - Doctoral Program in Educational Theory and Practice (ETAP)
Overview
The ETAP Ph.D. program provides a strong philosophical, theoretical, research-based, and practical understanding of teaching, learning, and educational environments for educators who intend to assume positions as researchers, teacher educators, teacher leaders, and policymakers. As scholars, we are committed to questioning and furthering theory, research, and practice as we apply and develop perspectives that include psychosocial, critical, historical, phenomenological, post-structural, sociological, postmodern, cross-cultural, international-comparative, postcolonial, feminist, and queer-theory approaches.
Doctoral students entering the ETAP Ph.D. program join a highly engaged community of scholars with diverse interests. Professors in the ETAP Ph.D. work internationally, nationally, and locally with particular attention to the political and social contexts of children, communities, and education; conduct research in many different areas; and draw from diverse research traditions. In each emphasis area we embrace and explore emerging issues, contradictions, and possibilities.
The program is home to a mixture of full-time and part-time students. Most full-time students are supported through teaching and research assistantships. Most part-time students work on the PhD while continuing to work as teachers and administrators. Full-time study, for at least part of the program, is encouraged. Doctoral committees will work with part-time and non-resident students on individual plans for how they best can be included in the intellectual life of the doctoral student community and meet the requirements of doing some teaching of undergraduates and conducting research before they graduate.
