New Academic Treaty

According to this proposal, directing scientific effort, through the integration of pure research and professional practice, requires the creation of new academic treaty among the people who staff the two schools of thought dominating the development and application of human knowledge. As for today, the academic development of the philosophical faculty and the practical one is conducted in parallel lines and immersed in a constant struggle for status, prestige and funding (Mahoney, 2000 and Pring, 2000 in Gorard 2002). This struggle will not reach to a decision point since both faculties have an important part in the development of human knowledge and its applications. It is necessary to reach mutual recognition of both schools in the existing differences between them, and of respective advantages and disadvantages in both. Many researchers describe the differences between the Ph.D. and the Ed.D. programs (Wellington, and Sikes, 2006; Servage, 2009). The main idea of the writer is to stress out that the best way to develop knowledge attained by cross checking several sources.

The current academic position suggests knowledge can be explored from an external observer's perspective or from an internal professional procedure. The external perspective represents the Ph.D.: objective, non-personal and repeatable knowledge, while the internal perspective represents the Ed.d, reflecting upon personal experience and practice, in order to extract and explicit tacit knowledge (Neumann, 2005; Mykhalovskiy, ET. Al. 2008)