Handbook of Race, Equity, and Asset-based Research in Educational Psychology

Handbook of Race, Equity, and Asset-Based Research in Educational Psychology offers a profound vision of contemporary educational psychology scholarship, practice, policy, teaching, and research design that is both informed by and empowering of social justice.

Despite the ubiquity of educational psychology’s body of knowledge, the discipline has long neglected the academic success, well-being, and other outcomes of historically and systemically marginalized learners and research partners, and the field remains complicit in imposing normative standards and social stratification across diverse populations. This expansive and rigorous volume charts a new course in educational psychology that supports equity-focused research agendas, refined theoretical syntheses, and meaningful attention to the complexities of race, culture, and class. Each chapter vividly contextualizes critical approaches to theory, methodology, philosophy, pedagogy, and other topics, including the direct integration of decolonial, socioecological, translingual, trauma-informed, and community-engaged praxis.

This book’s substantive and deeply considered contributions constitute a significant scholarly reckoning with the exclusionary hierarchies that pervade the field today and an exciting articulation of its future.

Francesca A. López is Professor and the Jim and Georgia Thompson Distinguished Professor of Education in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA.

Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby is Professor and Robert A. Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching in the Rossier School of Education and Executive Director of the USC Race and Equity Center at the University of Southern California, USA.

DeLeon L. Gray is Associate Professor of Educational Psychology and Equity in the College of Education at North Carolina State University, USA.