A Teaching Doctorate: The Doctor of Arts Degree, Then and Now Review

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(More customer reviews)Glazer has done a superb job describing in this monograph the rise and decline of the Doctor of Arts (D.A.) degree from inception through 1991 from various perspectives. However much has changed in the fifteen years since.
In 2006 the D.A. has started to experience a resurgence in the United States as people begin to question the supremacy of the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) and it's role as a theoretical and research focused degree in a service industry economy. There will always be value in discovery, however the needs of the 21st century are distinct from those of the 19th and 20th centuries when the Ph.D aided the United States in rapid expansion and exploitation of science. We need look no further than global warming, strife in the Middle East, and Americas own divisions over science and religion as illustrated over the past two Presidential elections, to understand the importance of a doctorate and it's scholarship which is expository versus research oriented.
John Painter

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The story of the Doctor of Arts (DDA) degree, designed to improve undergraduate teaching by replacing the research Ph.D. as the credential of choice for college faculty. Based on national surveys of D.A.-granting institutions and 350 D.A. recipients. Lessons learned in the D.A. reform effort are particularly timely with today's emphasis on pedagogy, and preparing for and improving teaching.

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