Ed.D. Values:

  1. Community Grounded
  2. Ancestral Knowledge
  3. Relational Learning
  4. Disrupt and Dismantle
  5. Healing 

By the completion of the program, students will:

  • Model Community Grounded Approaches: Model reciprocal methods of collectivity - within and across institutions and movements - toward sustainable community grounded approaches. 

 

  • Integrate Ancestral Knowledge: Integrate intergenerational ways of knowing to engage with complex problems of practice. 

 

  • Apply Relational Learning: Apply reflexive and dialogic practices to create, implement, and evaluate relational learning environments that affirm learner-centered engagement. 

 

  • Disrupt and Dismantle: Demonstrate personal and professional de-colonial praxis that disrupts and dismantles systemic intersectional violence within institutions and communities. 

 

  • Foster Healing: Foster compassionate spaces for self and those we interact with to be holistically, authentically human.