{"id":24489,"date":"2017-07-06T06:00:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24489"},"modified":"2017-07-05T12:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:05:04","slug":"austin-peays-dr-prentice-chandler-dean-of-martha-dickerson-eriksson-college-of-education-publishes-second-volume-of-study-on-race-social-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/07\/06\/austin-peays-dr-prentice-chandler-dean-of-martha-dickerson-eriksson-college-of-education-publishes-second-volume-of-study-on-race-social-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay’s Dr. Prentice Chandler, dean of Martha Dickerson Eriksson College of Education, publishes second volume of study on race, social studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Informed by years spent as a school teacher, Dr. Prentice Chandler, dean of Austin Peay State University\u2019s Martha Dickerson Eriksson College of Education, recognized a deficiency in the way social studies are taught in the classroom.<\/p>\n

While disciplines like history, geography, political science, economics and psychology are addressed in-depth, Chandler and many other experts in the field noted a lack of attention to a major component of society \u2014 race, or more importantly, how race relates to our place in the world.<\/p>\n

\"Austin

Austin Peay State University’s Dr. Prentice Chandler<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAs a former middle school student told (one of the book\u2019s contributors), \u2018If you take out race, \u2018the story\u2019 doesn\u2019t even make sense,\u2019\u201d Chandler said. \u201cAs such, our social studies curriculum should reflect this fact of social life. Social studies that does not pay attention to the role of race is but a partial social study.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chandler hopes to help educators tackle the important concept of race in his recent book, titled \u201cRace Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies.\u201d Co-edited by Kent State University associate professor Dr. Todd Hawley, \u201cRace Lessons\u201d is a collection of scholarly essays that contend that the mission of social studies is not attainable without attention to the ways in which race and racism play out in society.<\/p>\n

This volume, Chandler said, is designed to help teachers and teacher educators start the conversation around realistic and practical race concepts. Each chapter is written by prominent social studies scholars and classroom teachers looking to raise the profile of what Chandler describes as an \u201cignored\u201d component of the social studies concept. The works contained in the volume, Chandler says, can help educators explore a model for use in their own classrooms as they begin to address the topic of race.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe theory, research and practice related to social studies education and race can only be characterized by a lack of attention and willful neglect,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cOver the last two decades, this curricular criticism has sharpened, but the problem remains the same. When it comes to social studies in the formalized, enacted curriculum, race and racism, as formal topics\/subjects of instruction are ignored or marginalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe educators whose work is included in this volume are looking to change this trajectory,\u201d Chandler continued. \u201cThe book that (Hawley) and I have published takes the established concept of inquiry to help teachers understand and teach about the concept of race\u2014and how this concept plays out within the social sciences.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRace Lessons\u201d is, in many ways, a companion piece to Chandler\u2019s 2015 book, \u201cDoing Race in Social Studies: Critical Perspectives.\u201d Both works, Chandler said, ultimately serve to help educators gain perspective on race and how it can be incorporated into social studies education.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Doing Race in Social Studies\u2019 represents an attempt to bridge the gap between race theory and the teaching of social studies and the social sciences in public schools,\u201d Chandler said. \u201cOur newest book, \u2018Race Lessons\u2019 takes this idea one step further by addressing this concept within the context of teaching. After sharing the first book at the National Council for the Social Studies conference, teachers in attendance asked us how these ideas could be transformed into a more usable model for classroom instruction, and that is really the origin of \u2018Race Lessons.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRace Lessons: Using Inquiry to Teach About Race in Social Studies\u201d is published by Information Age Publishing, Inc. and is available on Amazon.com.<\/p>\n

For more information about APSU\u2019s Martha Dickerson Eriksson College of Education, visit www.apsu.edu\/education<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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