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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Dr. Kimberly Bainguel is a graduate of the Barbara Solomon School of Social Work, with a doctorate degree in social work, concentration in social work administration. She is an alumnus of Southern University at New Orleans where she earned her Master’s of Social Work (MSW) and Southern University A&M College, where she earned her Bachelor's of Science in History. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in Louisiana, Ohio, and Minnesota. She works in private practice where her area of expertise is relationship and family conflict and provides education presentations on burnout in the profession of social work. Dr. Bainguel is passionate about fostering healthy relationships; so that communities can become the best they can be and experience a safer place.
Dr. Bainguel’s professional work experience includes being a therapist for home base services, psychiatric social worker, and as a community assessor for mental health rehabilitation programs. She also tutors social workers working towards licensure. Her research background includes action research on burnout in child welfare social workers in Louisiana. She is also an author.
DSW, Walden University
MSW, Southern University at New Orleans
United Christian Faith Ministries, Other - Baton Rouge
Bainguel, K. (2019). Burnout Among Child Welfare Social Workers in Louisiana.
Bainguel, K. M. (2019). Burnout Among Child Welfare Social Workers in Louisiana. The Baton Rouge General
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