Uncharted Territory: The Nexus Between Doctoral Education and Community-based Learning

One of the continual challenges facing professors who prepare TK-12 school leaders through the professional educational doctorate (Ed.D. degree), is ensuring a theory-to-practice framework, curriculum, and pedagogy. Furthermore, professors of doctoral programs whose orientation is social justice, often face the dilemma of how to infuse it as a cross-cutting issue with the theory-practice paradigm. Community-based learning (CBL), when embedded with social justice claims, can serve as a bridge between theory and practice, providing doctoral students with opportunities to achieve both goals. This qualitative case study engaged with this dilemma by investigating the efficacy of a community-based learning component that had been infused into a core doctoral leadership course. Through interviews with doctoral students, we sought to understand their perception of its connection to the program’s social justice orientation, as well as the benefits, challenges, and recommendations for the efficacy of community-based learning. Students’ input guided future course revisions that establish a clearer relationship among social justice themes, the program’s learning outcomes, and the theory-praxis paradigm.  

The Grizzly, March 27, 1981

Parents Day Slated for Early April • Overwhelming Enthusiasm Welcomes Special Olympics • Bomberger Tower Under Construction • SPC Elects New Grizzly Editor-in-Chief • Shakespeare Opens • Departmental Focus: Math Department • Transplanted Texan: NY to Collegeville • Spectrum Tries New Ticket Sales • Values Next Forum Topic • TV Production in Communications • Language Clubs Host Dessert Festival • Final Exam Schedule • Baseball Team Carries Much Potential • Hoopsters Finish 3rd in Nation • Tennis Team Prepares for Tough Season • Women\u27s Lacrosse Start Season 1-1https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1056/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 27, 1981

Police Involvement: Fraternity Pledging Marred by Bad Reports • Lewis Thomas Graduation Speaker • FCA Gearing Up for Special Olympics • Off-Campus Housing Explored by USGA • USGA Notes • Wickersham Outlines Fall Semester Senior Symposium • Departmental Focus: Romance Languages • Middle East: Soviet Rivalry Topic of Forum • Beta Sig to Sponsor Franken & Davis • Cafe International Opens Tonight • Bierprobe Taste-Testing a Big Success • Reborn Songfest Loses Appeal • IFC Dance Slated for March 20 • You See UC to Become Regular Friday Feature • Registration Delayed • Gifford Heading for Nationals • Lady Swimmers End Season at .500 • Basketball Shooting for NCAA Tournament • Aquabears Have High Hopes for MACs • Sweeney, DiMattia Take 1sts in Indoor Track • Women Hoopsters Enter Playoffs Looking for Titlehttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1054/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, March 20, 1981

Special Olympics at Ursinus This Weekend • IFC All Set for Dance • Basketball Team Shootin\u27 for National Title • St. Andrews Scholarship Applications Being Taken • McQuillan Warns of Student Loan Cuts • USGA Notes • Evening Student Awarded Phillips Prize • Departmental Focus: Economics / Business Administration • Texan in New York • Rush Clarifies Itself in Moving Pictures • Positive Rock Radio • Midsummer Night\u27s Dream in Final Preparation • UC Secretaries: Service Beyond the Call of Duty • Classics Club Announces Movie • Course Offerings 1981-1982 • Ursinus Basketball in Final Four • All-American Giff Earns Third • Gymnastics Season Seen as a Successhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1055/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, December 5, 1980

Work Study Pay Increased To Minimum Wage • Chemistry Department Victimized by Malicious Pranks • Holiday Vacation Marred By Campus Break-ins • Richter Outlines Campus Concerns • Petition Shows Strong Support for Greaseband Return • Alumni Committee for Pre-Med Consultation • Wismer Corner • 1980 at Ursinus: The Year in Review • Southern Bands \u27Rock\u27 Spectrum • Handel\u27s \u27Messiah\u27 to Be Presented Tomorrow • Songfest Tradition Revived • Women\u27s Basketball Lookin\u27 Good • Basketball Off to Slow Start • Football Ends Victorioushttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1049/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, September 26, 1980

Equipment Stolen From New Ritter Center • Conversion Eases Skyrocketing Utility Costs • Dean\u27s Office Discloses Frat GPAs • New Windows for NMD • New Spanish Lecturers Interviewed • IF, USGA to Sponsor Fall Picnic • Anderson Addresses College Crowd At Phila. Rally • College Invaded By World Of Technology • Draft Registration Closely Examined • Campus Grounds Receive Face Lift • Hamilton Presents Astronomy Discoveries • Try-outs for Trial by Jury • Weekends at Ursinus • Harriers Place 2nd At Lafayette Invitational • Grizzly Football Handled By W. Maryland • Sports Profile: Craig Walck • Field Hockey Finishes Week Undefeated • Strong Hitting By Bear V-Ball Outdoes Moravian • Offense Sputters As Bears Lose • Kreiger Powers Heathenshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1041/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, January 30, 1981

Gambling Investigation Prompts Student Withdrawals • Thornburgh Discusses Education At Conference • Todd Hall Fined $200 For Alcohol Violation • Tower Restoration Scheduled • McQuillan Presents Financial Aid Workshop • Magazine Addresses Students • J-Board Workings Explained By Barth • Fraternity Theories • Bids Distribution • Top Ten Albums of 1980 • Greaseband Unable To Return This Semester • Spiritwood: A Different Coffeehouse • Theatre: A Midsummer Night\u27s Dream • Shipping Delay Postpones NMD Window Installation • Departmental Focus: Health And Physical Education • Swim Coach Hopes For .500 Season • Men\u27s Basketball Holding 1st Place In MAC • Grapplers Having An Up & Down Year • Haag Leads Lady Hoopsters Past Widenerhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1050/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 13, 1981

Water Crisis Worsens: TCE Also a Problem • Pett Leaving Economics Department • Mobley Breaks Basketball Record • News Briefs: Meistersingers concert in Oreland; Ursinus professor published • Departmental Focus: English Department; History Department • Orientation Committee Applications Being Taken • 1981 Fraternity Pledge Classes • Music News • Female Artists Topic of Forum • Coffeehouse: A Folk Touch • Candidates for USGA Offices • Women\u27s B-Ball Undefeated 9 Straight • Tight Season Ahead for Intramural B-Ball • Badminton Team Playin\u27 Tough • Hoopsters Claim Two More Victims • Grizzly Grapplers Mark at 7-4-1 • Aquabears Dunk Foes: Swimmers Living Up to .500 Goalhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1052/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, November 21, 1980

Dean of Students\u27 Office Releases Vandalism Figures • Maintenance Working To Conserve Energy • Weight Room Relocated In Helfferich • College Union Attempts World\u27s Largest Molecule • Ursinus News In Brief: Espadas to speak today in Illinois; Maintenance planting new trees; Placement interviews coming soon • Rassias Method Explored for Languages • Journalism To Be Added To Curriculum • Medical Ethics Course Offered • Phil. & Rel. Dept. Lecture On Judaism • College To Host 43rd Messiah Performance • Foghat and Outlaws Perform for \u27Serious Rockers\u27 • Forum On Radiation Draws Mixed Views • Art Exhibit On Display In Wismer • Open House Planned By Astronomy Club • A Look At This Year\u27s Basketball Season • Cross Country To Compete In Nationals This Weekend • Gridders Lose Early Lead to Tie Gettysburghttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1048/thumbnail.jp