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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

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

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.

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