What are education leadership degrees?

[Pengwuino]

What are "education leadership" degrees?

At this years commencement, our University graduated something like 40 "Educational Leadership" doctoral students. Yesterday I was talking to my adviser and the graduation had come up and we were talking about it. Another professor had come by and started chatting with us a bit and my adviser asked the other prof "what the hell is an education leadership major?" and he just shrugged and went "I have no idea". I checked out wikipedia and it sounds like made up nonsense.

Who are these people? And are they the ones responsible for ruining our education system? :P

 

[KingNothing]

If you do a quick google search for "educational leadership degree", the top 5 results are all about online degrees.

http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/education/educational-leadership-major.htm

Sounds like it amounts to a lot of grocery baggers trying to pay back some 25% APR educational loan for the rest of their lives. Sorry for being so cynical!

 

[loseyourname]

Sounds like school administration, like learning to be a principal.

 

[Pengwuino]

Sounds like school administration, like learning to be a principal.

Yup, that are higher up district level nonsense