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Jiménez Eguizábal, Alfredo; Palmero Cámara, Carmen; Luis Rico, Isabel – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2013
The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse the ways educational policy is understood, taught and practiced as a training discipline at postgraduate level in the European context. We have validated its epistemological solvency through a quantitative, comparative and ethnographic study of its main features as a discipline--such as ideological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Graduate Study, Postsecondary Education as a Field of Study
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Carpenter, D. Stanley – Review of Higher Education, 1987
The controversy over Ph.D. vs. Ed.D. programs in higher education is examined, including discussion of differential research requirements and the ways in which traditional disciplines dominate thinking about the study of higher education. It is concluded that each field must define its own standards for each degree. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Comparative Analysis, Doctoral Degrees, Doctoral Programs
Smart, John C., Ed. – 1996
This volume contains 10 papers on higher education theory and research. "Variation Among Academic Disciplines: Analytical Frameworks and Research" (John M. Braxton and Lowell L. Hargens) reviews work on disciplinary differences and proposed conceptual schemes for explaining these differences. "Public Policy and Public Trust: The Use…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment, Doctoral Programs, Educational Finance