Paper Two: We’ve Only Just Begun: Race in Social Studies Education Research

• In Event: (Re)Imagining Social Studies Educational Research While Under Attack: Interrogating Methodologies to Repair Harm

Abstract

The authors in this presentation accept Tyson’s (2006) challenge that the field needs to “analyze the pervasiveness of race” (p.43) by moving that conversation to the center of our research paradigms. They do this by sharing examples in social studies education research that feature Critical Race Theories and their offshoots into AsianCrit, BlackCrit, TribalCrit, LatCrit, Racial Literacy, and Black Feminist Thought (see Busey et al. 2022; Rodríguez, 2020, Sabzalian, et al., 2021, Vickery 2015/ 2017, and Woodson, 2016 for scholarship informing this session). Through their review of social studies education scholarship, these authors conclude that the field has only begun tapping the surface of how these epistemologies can and already influence what counts as knowledge.

Authors

• Kristen Duncan, Clemson University

• Brandon J. Beck, Univeristy of Maryland Baltimore County