The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)-an inter-institutional action

project of the Carnegie Foundation-is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals

of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the

research doctorate; and improving reliably and across contexts the efficacy of programs

leading the professional doctorate in education. To this end, the aim is to advance the

Education Doctorate (EdD) as the highest qualitydegree for the professional preparation

of educational practitioners. With this book, the editors offer multiple perspectives of

graduates from several CPED-influenced programs and allow these graduates to describe how they have

experienced innovative professional practice preparation. The chapters in this book tell the reader a story of transformation

providing several narratives that describe each graduate's progression through their doctoral studies. Authors specifically

chronicle how individual EdD programs prepared them to be scholarly practitioners, and how their doctoral studies

changed who they have become as people and practitioners. The primary market for this project would be scholars,

professors, and students interested in higher education and doctoral education. In particular, those that are interested in

understanding the purpose of the Education Doctorate (EdD) and its role in preparing Stewards of the Practice.