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PhD - School Safety, Security, Emergency Management
National University’s EdD (Doctor of Education) with a specialization in School Safety, Security, and Emergency Management is designed to allow learners to focus on the three areas unique to the specialization title. Students who feel safe and secure at school are better able to learn by engaging with the curriculum, their teachers, and their peers. Throughout this program, students will learn to develop deep knowledge of educational systems, theories, and research in an area of expertise, as well as to interpret theories, research, and ideas for different audiences through multiple methods of communication. This specialization offers K-12 professionals and other related emergency management or district management personnel the opportunity to learn about diverse topics such as technologies to manage safety, security, and emergencies, threat assessments of people and facilities, restorative justice, and other alternatives to student discipline, and how to contribute, implement, and improve school safety plans. Further, a theoretical underpinning of these issues and the needed response will be examined. Learners will demonstrate their proficiency through a capstone project in the final specialization course.
