Book chapter
And the Winner Is . . . All of Us (?)
Innovation and Impact: The Origins and Elements of EdD Program Excellence, 8
2024
Abstract
Book abstract: Professional and educational associations, such as the Carnegie Project for the Education Doctorate (CPED), create and offer awards that recognize the accomplishments of individuals, programs, and institutions. In this edited book, W. Kyle Ingle and Harriette Thurber Rasmussen focus on CPED’s Program of the Year (POY) Award, examining its history, purpose, submission requirements, its committee structure, activities, and outcomes. Faculty members from CPED’s award-winning institutions have been invited to discuss their innovative programs, how these innovations were developed, how they pursue social justice, and how these innovations have been sustained since winning the award. Furthermore, the award’s role in facilitating the diffusion of innovative and effective practices among CPED member institutions is examined. The book and its chapters are framed through the lens of innovation diffusion theory. Popularized by communication theorist Everett Rogers (1967, 2003), innovation diffusion theory has spread widely across the social sciences. In his seminal work, Diffusion of Innovations, Rogers defines an innovation as “an idea, practice, or object that is perceived as new by an individual or other unit of adoption” (2003, p. 12). Innovation diffusion is the process by which an innovation spreads among the members of a social system, in this case the internal and external communities of Ed.D.-granting institutions.
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- Title
- And the Winner Is . . . All of Us (?)
- Creators
- W. Kyle Ingle - University of LouisvilleHarriette Thurber Rasmussen - Drexel University
- Contributors
- W. Kyle Ingle (Editor) - University of LouisvilleHarriette Thurber Rasmussen (Editor) - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Innovation and Impact: The Origins and Elements of EdD Program Excellence, 8
- Series
- The Coming of Age of the Education Doctorate (EdD) Series
- Publisher
- Myers Education Press; Bloomfield
- Edition
- 1st
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Identifiers
- 991022008196104721