CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Educational Psychology Research and Practice (EPRaP):
The whiteness of Educational Psychology: colonialism, post-colonialism and racialisation in the theory, training and practice of educational psychology.
In 2014, DeCuir-Gunby and Schutz published a paper questioning “why race as a sociohistorical construct has not traditionally been investigated in educational psychology research” (DeCuir-Gunby & Schutz, 2014). Upon examining five major educational psychology journals, they found only 1.3% of articles published between 2001 and 2012 focused on race-based research. Although the journal Educational and Child Psychology has subsequently published a special issue on 'Race', Culture and Ethnicity in Educational Psychology in 2015, there remains a lack of race-based research and critical reflections on training and practice in the field of educational psychology, particularly in the context of Rhodes Must Fall (Chaudhuri, 2016) and the call to decolonise curriculums and teaching practice (Sabaratnam, 2017).
Educational Psychology Research and Practice (EPRaP) calls for papers from ethnic minority trainees, academics and practitioners in the field of educational psychology, that examine all aspects of educational psychology from a critical race theory perspective. Papers on a range of different topics are invited for submission, including, but not limited to:

 *   the experience of trainees on an educational psychology programme
 *   the experiences of practitioners
 *   reflections on the teaching of educational psychology
 *   the awards gap
 *   racism in educational psychology

EPRaP encourages both personal reflections and research papers with a race-based focus.
The following are examples of race-based research papers in the wider field of psychology that may helpful in terms of considering submission. Wood and Patel (2017) examined the history of clinical psychology programmes in the United Kingdom, particularly focusing on immigration, racism and diversity, and reflected on the introduction of workshops exploring “whiteness” and decolonising the profession. Paulraj’s clinical psychology thesis at the University of East London (2016) reflected on how Black trainees in Clinical Psychology make sense of their identities in the context of training, focusing on the influence of language, power and material realities on the process. Pillay (2017) asks whether it is possible to decolonize psychology. Halberstadt et al (2018) examined the racialised perceptions of emotion in Black vs white faces amongst preservice teachers in the United States, finding that misbehaviours were perceived as more hostile for Black than White boys.
EPRaP is an open access journal published within the School of Psychology at the University of East London. All authors retain full rights to their work and authors are not required to pay any fees upon submission to the journal.
This call for papers closes on 20.01.20.
References (openly available versions where possible)
Chaudhuri, A. (2016). The real meaning of Rhodes Must Fall. The Guardian. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/16/the-real-meaning-of-rhodes-must-fall
DeCuir-Gunby, J. T., & Schutz, P. A. (2014). Researching race within educational psychology
contexts. Educational Psychologist, 49, 244-260. Available from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267629547_Researching_Race_Within_Educational_Psychology_Contexts

Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., Chu, Q., Lozada, F. T., & Sims, C. M. (2018). Preservice teachers’ racialized emotion recognition, anger bias, and hostility attributions. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 54, 125-138. Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2018.06.004

Paulraj, P. S. (2016). How do Black Trainees Make Sense of Their “Identities” in the Context of Clinical Psychology Training? (Pro_doc, University of East London). Retrieved from https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/85132

Sabaratnam, M. (2017). Decolonising the curriculum: what’s all the fuss about? SOAS Blog. Available from: https://www.soas.ac.uk/blogs/study/decolonising-curriculum-whats-the-fuss/
Wood, Nicholas and Patel, Nimisha (2017) ‘On addressing ‘Whiteness’ during clinical psychology training’, South African Journal of Psychology, 47(3), pp. 280-29. Available from: https://repository.uel.ac.uk/item/84qqz


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