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Check out the NEW #SPRzoom webinar video from 2/22 discussing the forthcoming special topic Theory, Methods, and Practice to Advance Equity and Social Justice in School Psychology featuring Guest Editors: Dr. Amanda Sullivan, Dr. Prerna Arora, & Dr. Sam Song. Hosted by Dr. Shane Jimerson
This recent #SPRzoom webinar features a presentation highlighting the importance of theory, methods, and practice in advancing equity and social justice in school psychology. We encourage all to watch and consider submitting a paper for review.
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Theory, Methods, and Practice to Advance Equity and Justice in School Psychology
Guest Editors: Amanda L. Sullivan, Prerna Arora, and Samuel Y. Song
Given the documented paucity of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity within the field of school psychology and longstanding concern for capacity to positively serve all students (e.g., Sewell, 1981), it is important to feature scholarship that enhances the field's capacity to engage and support all learners, disrupt systemic racism and injustice, and facilitate social justice by contributing to more just educational systems. Challenging the historic emphases on relatively homogeneous populations, theories, and methods in school psychology research (e.g., Blake, Graves, Newell, & Jimerson, 2016; Nastasi, Arora, & Varjas, 2017) is one means of advancing the field. To support scholarly, professional, and educational efforts, this Special Topic section will feature diverse scholarship that expands and enhances the way we conceptualize, design, implement, and interpret school psychology research across all domains of practice and graduate education. Featured topics will include reconsidering how we approach graduate preparation and practice in school psychology to advance equity and justice in the ways we engage students, families, and communities from historically marginalized backgrounds. Although the focus is on enhancing justice in school psychology, we encourage interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship and collaborations as critical to the advancement of theory, methods, and practice in the field.
Areas that the papers might address include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical or methodological examinations of how scholars can integrate intersectionality, social justice, antiracism, or decolonization into school psychology scholarship;
- Exploration of multiple epistemic perspectives (e.g., positivism, empiricism, constructivism, critical Black feminism), controversies, or paradigms in school psychology research, preparation, or practice;
- Theories and methods that reconceptualize how we consider issues of power, privilege, and ethics in school psychology (e.g., mitigation of potential harm to historically minoritized backgrounds);
- Empirical investigations (qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods) of the effects of the current sociopolitical context (e.g., police brutality, state violence, resistance, immigration) on the education and well-being of students from marginalized communities;
- Policy analyses that address the intersections of school, state, federal, or other policy in the education or well-being of students from minoritized communities;
- Conceptual or empirical explorations related to what it means to diversify school psychology and disrupt systems that perpetuate racism and marginalization of individuals from minoritized communities (e.g., model programs, interventions to reduce trainers’ biases; approaches for addressing White fragility in school psychology);
- Novel approaches for recruitment, engagement, and retention of students and families from minoritized groups in school psychology research; and
- Prevention and intervention studies that leverage authentic school partnerships or participatory action historically marginalized communities, such as immigrant and refugee communities.
A variety of manuscript types are sought, including but not limited to: theoretical, conceptual, and methods papers; qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods investigations; systematic research reviews; and data-based position papers or commentaries/analytic essays. Each submission will be processed through peer review to determine whether the manuscript is suitable for publication in the journal. The deadline for the receipt of submissions is March 20, 2021.
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Gratefully,
The SPR Leadership Team