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The English name of the Doctor of Education degree is "Doctor of Education", and the English abbreviation is Ed.D.

Doctor of Education

(Reviewed and approved at the 26th meeting of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in December 2008)

I. In order to thoroughly implement the scientific concept of development, meet the needs of China s economic, social and educational development, realize the strategic goal of building a country with strong human resources and an innovative country, further adjust and optimize the type, structure, and level of education disciplines, and cultivate a high level of education practice. Professional talents at various levels, setting up a doctorate degree in education.

2. The English name of the doctoral degree in education is "Doctor of Education", and the English abbreviation is Ed.D.

Third, the training goal of doctoral degree education is to create complex and professional senior professionals in the fields of education, teaching and education management.

4. The recipient of a doctoral degree in education should have good humanities, solid and broad educational expertise, be able to creatively use scientific methods to study and solve complex problems in educational practice, and be competent at high levels in the fields of education, teaching, and education management. practical work.

V. The enrollment target of doctoral degree of education is primary and secondary school teachers who have a master's degree, have more than 5 years of full-time work experience in education and related fields, and have achieved considerable achievements.

6. The doctoral degree course system for education should meet the general requirements for the development of professional managers and decision makers, expert teachers, and educators in educational development. The content of the curriculum should reflect the cutting-edge level of contemporary education theory and practice; the curriculum structure should reflect comprehensive Curriculum, module and credit system; curriculum teaching should pay attention to the use of team learning, project discussions, field research, case analysis and educational survey methods.

7. The topic of doctoral degree thesis of education should be selected from the key issues of practical significance and application value in the practice of education, teaching and education management. The degree thesis should be highly difficult and innovative, reflecting the comprehensive application theory of degree applicants. And scientific methods to explore and solve educational practice problems.

8. The postgraduate degree in education for doctoral degree of education is implemented by the tutor responsibility system, with the tutor group providing collective guidance. The reviewers of the doctoral degree thesis of education and the members of the defense committee should include experts with senior professional and technical positions in relevant fields of practice.

IX. Professional doctoral degrees in education are granted by institutions of higher learning with the authority to confer PhD degrees in education and approved by the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

X. The doctoral degree certificate of education is uniformly printed by the Office of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council.

The enrollment of doctor of education in education is included in the national postgraduate admission management

Since 2000, well-known domestic universities such as Peking University, Beijing Normal University, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology have explored various mechanisms and models for cultivating research and expert education management personnel for the education front within the current degree system. After several years of hard work, it has trained dozens of high-quality, research-oriented managers for institutions of higher learning and primary and secondary schools. In the course of practice, these institutions have successfully explored a complete set of reforms by formulating and revising training plans, reforming curriculum content, reforming teaching methods, strengthening practical research and practical reflection links, and absorbing expert cooperation guidance in related fields. Successful experience in training research professionals.
In the process of exploring high-level vocational talent training models, the above-mentioned institutions have successively cooperated with Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania, Nanyang Technological University, and the University of Hong Kong and other well-known overseas universities to attract high-quality overseas education resources to participate in the entire training process (including admissions (The determination of the registration requirements, the design of subjects and contents of the entrance examination, the formulation of curriculum plans, the development of thesis standards, etc.). In the process, these well-known universities in China have directly learned overseas relatively mature education experience in doctoral degree education, laying a good foundation for international exchange and cooperation in education of doctoral degree education.
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