Doctoral Proseminar on Education Research

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This seminar is designed to enable first-year doctoral students at Penn GSE to understand the broad and diverse field of educational research and the driving debates within the broader field and sub-fields. A primary goal of the course is to support students' developing identities as educational scholars and to help them develop the intellectual skills and stances they will draw upon in doctoral work. We will pay particular attention to the multidisciplinary nature of education research, how individual disciplines and theoretical traditions approach education problems in complementary or contrasting ways, and how educational research functions at the intersection of policy and practice. The seminar seeks to encourage an intellectual community among doctoral students across Penn GSE divisions and programs and to build familiarity with professional norms and expectations. This seminar is intended to build on and complement related courses and activities that are offered by individual Penn GSE divisions.