Programs
                College of Advanced Studies

The Master of Arts in Child Study ( OBGTEC 3.0) is a specialized course offered by PNU College of Graduate Studies and Teacher Education Research. The aim of the course is to provide a framework for developing an integrated understanding of child development within the context of their family, peer groups, child-care and after-school programs, schools, neighborhoods, and larger communities and societies. 

The Master of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction program develops among teachers, program planners, academic leaders, aspiring researchers, and persons involved in curriculum development the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to address, generate, and promote interdisciplinary experiential learning that supports creativity, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, information and digital literacy, collaboration, and local-global citizenship competencies. In addition, the program prepares experts who shall assume various leadership roles in research and policy making in the field of curriculum and instruction. 

The proposed revision in the Master of Arts in Educational Assessment and Evaluation aims for a more innovative, inclusive, impactful and sustainable graduate education program that develops highly proficient and future-ready expert practitioners, research scholars and education leaders in the field/s of educational measurement, instrumentation, assessment, evaluation, research, and statistics. It is an interdisciplinary program that prepares graduate students for leadership in assessment and evaluation projects and programs in the workplace, collegiate teaching careers, and consultancy in the abovementioned fields in the government agencies or in private institutions and industries. 

The Master of Arts in Educational Leadership and Management is designed to prepare teachers and other professionals for career in management and leadership of educational institutions and other related learning organizations. The program introduces both current and future school heads and academic leaders to organizational leadership and development, curriculum and instructional management and leadership, school finance and education policy development among all others, both in national and international context of education. Coursework provides students the opportunity to improve and strengthen their cognitive skills, systems thinking skills, as well as their problem-solving and decision-making skills as they actually engage in critical and analytical examinations of theories and principles, processes and practices including researches in the area of school management and leadership, and the overall implications of these to the practice of school leadership and management. The program provides students opportunity to examine current leadership and management practices, more particularly, among public and private educational institutions in the country along the principal domains of educational leadership and management, for the purpose of determining their impact to quality education in general and to effective teaching and learning, in particular. Likewise, the program is designed to prepare students for challenging and unpredictable changes in education in consideration of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity in the world.

The Master of Arts in Reading Education program is designed to prepare graduate students as reading and literacy teachers, reading and literacy coaches, supervisors or coordinators of reading/literacy programs, and education scientists as they work with children, adolescents, and adults in school. It further aims to prepare them for the development and improvement of sustainable reading and literacy education so that they can contribute to the scholarship of teaching and teaching practice through immersion in key domains of content, curriculum development, educational leadership, and research in the discipline. 

The proposed future-ready PhD in Applied Linguistics is designed to prepare students to investigate real-world language-related problems and issues in the 21st century. Toward this end, students are provided with a deep theoretical knowledge in Applied Linguistics from the perspectives of anthropology, sociology, ecology and linguistics and equip them with advanced skills necessary for conducting language and linguistic research, documenting dying languages, and proposing innovative actions for the issues on hand. 

The Doctor of Philosophy in Curriculum and Instruction prepares teachers, supervisors, school heads, researchers, and aspiring scholars to be future ready, innovative, impactful, resilient, and reflective to the demands of the society and the emerging challenges of today’s education landscape. Moreover, the program develops experts,critical thinker and educational leaders in the field of curriculum and instruction to produce and promulgate innovative ideas, designs, methodologies, and outcomes that shall address the gaps, needs, and issues in localization/indigenization, globalization,gender sensibility and transversal competence that continuously preclude the advancement of futures thinking and promotion of lifelong learning.

The Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership and Management is designed for practicing and prospective educational leaders/managers and other related professionals to effectively meet current and emerging challenges in educational leadership and management at various levels of education at the local, national and international milieu. It is intended to increase and strengthen their knowledge, skills and attitudes as well as values and ethics necessary to effectively lead schools and educational institutions and related learning organizations to new parameters and domains of educational excellence through the knowledge and practice created by research in educational leadership and management at the local and global levels. In the process, students are given opportunities to examine and reflect on past and present professional practice as well as issues and problems surrounding such theories and practices in educational management and leadership. It is expected that through the conduct of research and consequently the utilization of research findings and their corresponding significant contributions to educational leadership and practice doctoral students should be able to display and manifest competence and capability in creating, designing, implementing and evaluating models and frameworks that could assist educationists towards achieving a more transformative educational leadership and management practices. Moreover, the program is designed to strongly equip and prepare students to be highly advanced and exceptionally competent and determined intellectually, mentally and emotionally for challenging and unpredictable changes in education in consideration of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

The Doctor of Philosophy in READING EDUCATION is designed for practicing and prospective educational leaders/managers and other related professionals to effectively meet current and emerging challenges in educational leadership and INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE AND management at various levels of education at the local, national and international milieu. It is intended to increase and strengthen their knowledge, skills and attitudes as well as values and ethics necessary to effectively lead schools and educational institutions and related learning organizations to new parameters and domains of educational excellence through the knowledge and practice created by research in THEORY AND PRAXIS, INSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT, educational leadership and management IN READING LITERACY at the local and global levels. In the process, students are given opportunities to examine and reflect on past and present professional practice as well as issues and problems surrounding such theories and practices in READING LITERACY PEDAGOGY AND DEVELOPMENT, educational management and leadership. It is expected that through the conduct of research and consequently the utilization of research findings and their corresponding significant contributions to LITERACY INSTRUCTION AND PEDAGOGY, educational leadership and practice, doctoral students should be able to display and manifest competence and capability in creating, designing, implementing and evaluating models and frameworks that could assist educationists towards achieving a more transformative INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE, AS WELL AS educational leadership and management practices. Moreover, the program is designed to strongly equip and prepare students to be highly advanced and exceptionally competent and determined intellectually, mentally and emotionally for challenging and unpredictable changes in education in consideration of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. 

The PhD in Education (Area of Discipline) by Research is a research-intensive doctoral program that develops advanced expertise in education and teacher education through the conduct and publication of original research. The field of specialization is determined by the candidate’s chosen research area.

With fewer coursework requirements and stronger emphasis on research outputs, the program is designed for individuals with demonstrated disciplinary competence and exceptional research skills, capable of contributing new knowledge to their field.

Aligned with the University’s institutional outcomes and Graduate Teacher Education Framework, the program prepares research scholars who are future-ready educational leaders and expert practitioners. Through rigorous multi-level evaluations by panels of experts, candidates refine and strengthen their research to ensure publication in high-impact journals and meaningful contributions to education policy and practice.