Date: Friday, September 11, 12 am - 1 pm ET
Presenters: Veselina Lambrev, Associate Professor, University of South Florida and Micki Caskey, Professor Emerita, Portland State University
Join Veselina and Micki for an engaging webinar about their new book, Writing as Artistry: EdD Students Learning to Write as Scholarly Practitioners. Designed for EdD students and the faculty who support them, this book reimagines academic writing as a creative, reflective, and practice-centered endeavor. In this session, participants will explore strategies for helping EdD students develop a confident scholarly voice while drawing on the rich professional knowledge and experience they bring to their studies. Veselina and Micki will discuss how scholarly writing can bridge theory and practice, enabling students to produce dissertations and capstone projects that address authentic problems in educational settings.
Veselina S. Lambrev is associate professor and program director of the EdD program in the College of Education at the University of South Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Education with a specialization in Educational Foundations from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. Her research explores sociocultural dimensions of education globally and the cultivation of transformative educational leaders, as well as professional-practice doctoral education, with particular attention to pedagogies that support the practice-based philosophy of the EdD and the growth of scholarly-practitioner leaders.
Micki M. Caskey is professor emerita at Portland State University whose specialization areas include academic writing, doctoral education, mentoring, and middle grades education. She enjoys working with doctoral students and early career faculty to support their academic writing and scholarly productivity. Micki is co-series editor of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education and The Handbook of Resources in Middle Level Education as well as the former editor of Research in Middle Level Education Online—an international peer- reviewed research journal. She is author or editor of numerous books and numerous peer-reviewed publications. Micki also continues to share her scholarly ideas at regional, national, and international conferences.
