New
Department:
Organizational
Leadership, Policy,
and Development
Effective July 1, 2009, a
new department has been created
that integrates the business and
marketing education, human
resource development and adult
education, and comprehensive
WHRE programs from the
Department of
Work and Human Resource
Education (WHRE) into the
department formerly known as
Educational Policy and
Administration (EdPA). The
name of this new department is
Organizational Leadership,
Policy, and Development (OLPD).
It will offer exciting
opportunities for collaboration
and interdisciplinary education
and research. Click
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Current Research Interests
- Comparative and international education
- Human rights education
- Parent and community involvement in education
- Scholarship of technology-enhanced teaching and
learning
Profile
I am a coordinator and lecturer in
the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and
Development. I teach several of the core courses in the
comparative and international
development education (CIDE) program,
including the Master’s Plan A Research Seminar, Comparative
Education, and Educational Reform in International Contexts,
as well as an online Human Rights Education class, and
School and Society, a foundations of education course
required of all initial teaching licensure students in the
College of Education and Human Development.
Much of my current research and scholarship is centered on
the preparation of educational leaders, domestically and
internationally, and the scholarship of technology-enhanced
and online learning in higher education.
The focus of my doctoral study in CIDE (’06 graduate) at the
University of Minnesota was international development
education, specifically the education of children in
difficult circumstances, such as street children, ethnic
minority children, refugee and immigrant children, and other
groups often not served effectively in formal school
settings around the world. Before my doctoral study, I
taught secondary school English in Virginia and at a
German-American school in Berlin, Germany. It was my
experience in Berlin, teaching students from over a dozen
cultural backgrounds in one class and seeing multicultural
students struggling with identity questions that led me to
the CIDE program.
For more information about Amy Garrett Dikkers, see her full
curriculum vitae [PDF].
Revised September 2009
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