View our EdD Early Childhood specialization completion requirements
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
- Core courses (50 cr.)
- Capstone (10 cr.)
Minimum degree requirements:
60 quarter credits
Courses
In the EdD Early Childhood Education specialization, you’ll build skills and progress toward your final capstone project in every course.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
PhD completion program courses help you return to doctoral work, match with an advisor, and stay on track to finishing your dissertation.
Disclaimers: Walden students have up to 8 years to complete their doctoral program unless they petition for an extension.
In general, students are continuously registered in the dissertation/doctoral study course until they complete their capstone project and it is approved. This usually takes longer than the minimum required terms in the dissertation/doctoral study course shell.
To complete a doctoral dissertation, students must obtain the academic approval of several independent evaluators including their committee, the University Research Reviewer, and the Institutional Review Board; pass the Form and Style Review; gain approval at the oral defense stage; and gain final approval by the Chief Academic Officer. Students must also publish their dissertation on ProQuest before their degree is conferred. Learn more about the dissertation process in the Dissertation Guidebook.
For a personalized estimate of the number of your transfer credits that Walden would accept, call an Enrollment Specialist at 844-937-8785.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence you need to tackle complex managerial challenges, contribute new knowledge, or teach at the graduate level.
Courses
Develop the skills and confidence needed for complex managerial challenges and research with Walden’s ACBSP-accredited PhD program.
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Joanne Stuckey currently lives in Salado, Texas. Joanne served Walden’s General and Self-Design Ph.D. Programs in the College of Education and Human Sciences from 2008 until 2016, when she started serving the Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment Ed.D. Program. Joanne’s research expertise includes qualitative, case study, and evaluation research. Her current research interests include the best practices in designing, delivering, and evaluating online courses and programs, teacher and university faculty job satisfaction, k-higher education classroom technology integration, college retention, graduate student research support, language and literacy, struggling secondary readers, and learning assistance. Joanne previously worked in Texas Title I middle and high schools as an English teacher and Career and Technology Education Teacher, Instructional Specialist, New Teacher Mentor, Grant Writer, and Staff Development Trainer. Joanne’s other work experiences include serving as a research consultant for the State of Texas in the Region XIII Service Center’s School Improvement Resource Center; Campus Coordinator for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas TexBridge Program, Media Coordinator for the University of Texas, College of Natural Sciences’ Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Technical Editor and Grant Writer for Coleman Research Corporation; Grant Writer and Program Director for Wise Choices Juvenile Crime Prevention Program funded by El Paso Community Foundation and the Texas Department of Human and Regulatory Services; and serving the US Army as a military journalist during the Vietnam Era. When she is not working she enjoys gardening, bicycling, traveling, swimming and working with the Bell County Texas Master Gardener community programs, and spending time with friends and family.
EDUC 8110 - Development of the Scholar Practitioner
EDUC 8111 - Principles of Social Change
AA, Eastern New Mexico University
BS, New Mexico State University
MA, New Mexico State University
PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Phi Kappa Phi, by election, University of Texas at Austin Chapter 83, 2007
Kappa Delta Phi, Recognition for 20 Years of Scholarship & Leadership, 2004
Crimson Scholar, New Mexico State University, 1986
Phi Kappa Phi, New Mexico State University Chapter 82, 1986
University Honors, Certificate of Distinction, New Mexico State University, 1985
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