Elizabeth Montaño
Elizabeth Montaño, EdD serves as Professor of Teaching in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis. She has worked in higher education in both teacher education and educational leadership programs for the past 13 years. For 5 years, she served as the Faculty Chair for the CANDEL (Capital Area North Doctorate in Educational Leadership) program at UC Davis. Her previous research has explored teaching and learning in culturally and linguistically diverse settings, and the experiences of charter schoolteachers who work in unionized settings. Currently, she is conducting research on pedagogical practices in EdD programs and on the experiences of doctoral students in EdD programs. Her research has been published in Linguistics in Education, Theory into Practice, Equity and Excellence in Education, Impacting Education, and Multicultural Perspectives along with contributions to various edited volumes. She earned a B.A. in Political Science and Chicana/o Studies from UCLA, and a M.A./Credential in Education, Language, Literacy and Culture from UC Berkeley. She earned a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University.
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Bold and Visionary Leadership: How EdD Research Advances Equity in Higher Education includes contributions of scholarship and scholarly reflections on the experiences of visionary higher education faculty and leaders who center equity to transform their institutions. The chapters explore the role of the scholar-practitioner in enacting bold policies and practices and elevating their voices in settings where their voice as practitioners are often secondary to the presumed expertise of the academic leadership. Specifically, this book shares experiences and scholarship that emerged from their time in EdD programs and speaks to how their leadership and scholarship helped expand and redefine equitable practices and equity-centered research in their institutions. This book centers the voices of faculty and alumni of EdD programs, who share the impact of their programs and research while continuing to reflect on the current challenges they are facing as leaders in higher education. The purpose of this book is for scholar-practitioners to bridge research and practice while centering equity and leadership frameworks within higher education.Perfect for courses such as: Educational Leadership; Introduction to Doctoral Research; Higher Education Leadership; Access and Equity in Education; Leadership Issues in Education; Introduction to Research Design
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