Date of Award
10-2024
Culminating Project Type
Dissertation
Styleguide
apa
Degree Name
Higher Education Administration: Ed.D.
Department
Educational Administration and Higher Education
College
School of Education
First Advisor
Dr. Jennifer Jones
Second Advisor
Dr. Emeka Ikegwuonu
Third Advisor
Dr. Rachel Friedensen
Fourth Advisor
Dr. Shawn Williams
Creative Commons License
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Keywords and Subject Headings
Law Enforement Education Training
Abstract
This study and research examine administrators' and instructors' current practices and capacities to research, develop, deliver, and evaluate law enforcement education and training curricula. Since the deaths of George Floyd and Tyre Nichols, demands from advocacy groups, government organizations, and administrators within law enforcement have intensified calls for law enforcement reform and defunding the police. The Police Executive Research Forum PERF (2022) report detailed that law enforcement education and training have not changed in decades and indicated that for transformational change to occur, law enforcement education and training curricula must be reshaped, redesigned, and use professional instructional designers. This study examined the education and training that law enforcement administrators, educators, and trainers have in curricula development, instructional delivery methods, and evaluation processes. The study showed that law enforcement education and training individuals have limited knowledge of adult learning instructional design, delivery, and evaluation processes, hindering their ability to create transformational change in law enforcement education and training. Even when attempting to incorporate adult learning into curricula, they revert to pedagogy HRD approaches to implement adult learning curricula.
Recommended Citation
Schwint, Ronald, "Law Enforcement Education and Training Administration, Instructional Design, and Delivery" (2024). Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration. 89.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/hied_etds/89