LibGuides: EDU 512: Educational Leadership and Societal Change: The Distinguished Practitioners Series: Home

Distinguished Practitioners Series

The graduate-level educational leadership course EDU 512 is structured differently from the other courses in the program. Instead of having one professor for the whole course, the students will have 5 different teachers, all of whom are educational practitioners of one kind or another.

For each guest speaker, you will find a link to his or her biographical information and their publications, where applicable.

Resources for Writing Interpretive Essays

Below are links to other websites that describe how to write interpretive papers. As with any resource, you will need to determine what your own writing needs are (and your professor's requirements, of course) before deciding which resource, or which elements of a resource, will be most helpful. Since Interpretive essays are commonly used in the humanities, two of the resources focus on writing about literature and history.

Critical or Interpretive Analysis Using Close Reading
Interpretive Thesis
Both this link and the one above lead to pages in the online textbook written by Richard Jewell. The one above looks at the meaning and organization of these types of papers, and this one focuses on developing the paper's thesis. The paper topic for EDU 512 is given to you, but the process the author describes would be helpful toward developing it in your own way.
Analytical and Interpretive Essays for History Courses
This guide from the Writing Center at the University of Montana gives a short but thorough overview of an analytical and interpretive essay, and the steps for how to write one. While it was intended for students writing in the field of history, the information is pertinent to most disciplines, including education.