The Journey to Centering Race: Social Studies Teacher Educators' Reasoning for Doing Race Work

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Abstract

Race and racism are not common scholarship topics in social studies education, yet there are a minority of scholars within the field leading this work in research and in the classroom. This paper presents the findings of a qualitative interview study exploring why some social studies teacher educators have placed race as an important component in the social studies teacher education curriculum.

Author

• Sara Beth Demoiny, Auburn University