The Foundation's training programs seek to support innovative ways to address the systematic and creative training of education researchers and to promote a deeper understanding of educational practices. The Foundation's two institutional training programs, both of which are invitational, are described below.
Research Training Grant Program
Through the Research Training Grant Program, awards are made to schools of education to support the doctoral training of education researchers. Established in 1994, the programs goals are: (1) to enhance the research training of graduate students in education by providing financial aid to students so that they can study full time and by developing strong cohorts or communities of inquiry among graduate students and professors; (2) to develop a larger and stronger national community of inquiry; (3) to stimulate reflection on and conversation about doctoral preparation in education; and (4) to generate and diffuse knowledge about research training.
Proposals are accepted at the invitation of the Foundation. New proposals are not being invited at this time.
Please see our Annual Reports for listings of Research Training Grants awarded.
Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education Program (DBSE)
The Discipline-Based Scholarship in Education Program represents a recent extension of the Research Training Grant Program. Awards made in this program are designed to strengthen institutional efforts to bridge work in disciplines and schools of education. The program reflects our understanding that graduate students interested in education are trained in different institutional locations across the university, but that faculty and students may have few opportunities to interact around common interests.
The intent is to enhance research preparation based in disciplinary departments and preparation that crosses school and department lines, as well as to enable faculty with interests related to education to work together. Grants will be made to a small number of institutions, a portfolio that will represent a mix of disciplines, thematic foci, and institutional arrangements.
Proposals are accepted at the invitation of the Foundation.
Please see our Annual Reports for listings of DBSE Grants awarded.