Integrating Culturally Responsive and Social Justice Pedagogy: A Case Study of an Online Doctorate of Education Degree Program for Instructional and Professional Leadership

Abstract

This narrative case study examines the integration of culturally responsive and social justice pedagogy into an online Doctoral of Education degree program. This study was conducted over four years with two cohorts in a fifty-one-hour online doctoral program that also focused on instructional and professional leadership and presents findings of themes and issues of culturally responsive and social justice pedagogy. Additional findings provided a linking of culturally responsive social justice pedagogy with urban education issues found in EC to 12th-grade school settings to ensuring support of students and faculty when examining topics about race, ethnicity, gender, and economic status, and providing the needed knowledge, skills, and dispositions for instructional and professional leadership.