Faculty Profile

Amanda Vickery

Title
Associate Professor
Department
Teacher Education and Administration
College
College of Education

    

Education

PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2015.
Major: Curriculum & Instruction
Degree Specialization: Social Studies Education
Dissertation Title: When and Where We Enter: African American Women Teachers and Communal Notions of Citizenship in the Social Studies Classroom
MEd, University of Texas at Austin, 2011.
Major: Curriculum & Instruction
Degree Specialization: Social Studies Education
BA, University of Texas at Austin, 2008.
Major: History
Degree Specialization: Teacher certification

Current Scheduled Teaching*

EDCI 6900.710, Special Problems, Summer 2024
EDCI 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2024
EDEE 4800.001, Studies in Education, Spring 2024 Syllabus

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching*

EDCI 6950.708, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2023
EDEE 3340.601, Teaching Social Studies EC 6, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5320.030, Curriculum Development, Summer 5W1 2023 SPOT
EDCI 6350.001, Research and Practice of Teaching, Summer 10W 2023 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5130.030, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Summer 5W2 2023 Syllabus
EDCI 6910.700, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2023
EDCI 6910.710, Special Problems, Summer 10W 2023
EDCI 6950.705, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2023
EDCI 5850.030, Instructional Methodologies in Language Arts and Social Studies, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5020.031, Curriculum Development for Culturally Diverse Learners, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6950.708, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2022
EDEE 3340.006, Teaching Social Studies EC 6, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5320.030, Curriculum Development, Summer 5W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6950.707, Doctoral Dissertation, Summer 10W 2022
EDCI 5130.030, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Summer 5W2 2022 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6950.706, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2022
EDCI 5130.801, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Spring 3W1 2022 Syllabus
EDCI 6950.708, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2021
EDME 4340.001, Social Studies in Grades 4 8, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDME 4340.016, Social Studies in Grades 4 8, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6910.711, Special Problems, Fall 2021 Syllabus
EDEE 3340.001, Teaching Social Studies EC 6, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDEE 3340.008, Teaching Social Studies EC 6, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDEE 3340.020, Teaching Social Studies EC 6, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6350.030, Research and Practice of Teaching, Summer 10W 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5130.030, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Summer 5W2 2021 SPOT
EDCI 6950.701, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2021
EDCI 5130.030, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDEE 4340.015, Social Studies in Grades EC 6, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6910.703, Special Problems, Spring 2021
EDCI 5020.026, Curriculum Development for Culturally Diverse Learners, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 5020.030, Curriculum Development for Culturally Diverse Learners, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
EDCI 6950.713, Doctoral Dissertation, Fall 2020
EDCI 6900.700, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2020 Syllabus
EDCI 6950.701, Doctoral Dissertation, Spring 2020
EDCI 5130.030, Schooling in a Multicultural Society, Spring 2020 Syllabus
EDME 4340.001, Social Studies in Grades 4 8, Spring 2020 Syllabus
EDEE 4340.014, Social Studies in Grades EC 6, Spring 2020 Syllabus
EDME 4340.001, Social Studies in Grades 4 8, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
EDEE 4340.002, Social Studies in Grades EC 6, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT
EDEE 4340.004, Social Studies in Grades EC 6, Fall 2019 Syllabus SPOT

* Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Publications

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Vickery, A., Rodriguez, N. N. (2022). Dreaming Out Loud: Critical Race Theory and Social Studies Futures.. New York City, NY: Teachers College Press.
Book Chapter
Vickery, A. E. (2023). What does it mean to be a good citizen?. Silver Springs, MD: National Council for the Social Studies.
Vickery, A. E. (2023). Why do we celebrate the 19th Amendment as the moment when women were granted the right to vote?. Silver Springs, MD: National Council for the Social Studies.
Vickery, A. E. (2023). Is food a political weapon? Using inquiry to explore the history of African American Farmers. National Council for the Social Studies.
Vickery, A., Hobby, S., Foster, M. (2022). “Step by Courageous Step”: A Pre-service Teachers Understanding of the Story of Ona Judge.. New York City, NY: Teachers College Press.
Adeniji, D., Frieson, B., Jimenez-Macias, T., Rasbury, K., Wright, K., Vickery, A. (2022). Exploring Blackness, Queerness, and Liberation through The Stars and the Blackness Between Them. Queer Adolescent Literature as a Complement to the English Language Arts Curriculum.
Vickery, A. E., Duncan, K. (2020). Lifting the Veil: On Decentering Whiteness in Social Studies Curriculum, Teaching, and Research. Other. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing.
Vickery, A. (2018). “I know what you are about to enter”: Lived experiences of African American women as the curricular foundation for teaching citizenship. Theorising Curriculum in Colour and Curves: Black Women with/in Curriculum Studies.. New York City, New York: Routledge.
Vickery, A. E., Hall, D. (2018). Spilling the Lemonade in Social Studies: A response to culture. Other. New York City, New York: Peter Lang Inc.
Salinas, C. S., Vickery, A. E., Rodriguez, N. N. (2018). The GI Forum, Felix Longoria and El movimiento: Understanding the Latina/o civil rights movement through critical historical inquiry. Other. Peter Lang Inc.
Busey, C., Vickery, A. E. (2018). Black Like Me: Race Pedagogy and Black Elementary Social Studies Teacher Educators. Other. Information Age Publishing.
Vickery, A. E., Holmes, K., Brown, A. (2015). Excavating critical racial knowledge in economics and world geography. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age Publishing..
Book Review
Vickery, A. (2022). We, too, Sing America: Preparing a New Generation of Active Citizens.. Theory and Research in Social Education.
Journal Article
Vickery, A., Rodriguez, N. N. (2021). "A Woman Question and a Race Problem": Attending to Intersectionality in Children's Literature. The Social Studies.
Rodriguez, N. N., Vickery, A. E. (2020). More Than a Hamburger: Disrupting Problematic Picturebook Depictions of the Civil Rights Movement.
Vickery, A. E. (2020). “This is a story of who America is”: Cultural memories and Black civic identity.. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. 17(2), 103-134.
Vickery, A. E., Trent, K., Salinas, C. S. (2019). “The Future Is Intersectional”: Using the Arts to Reinsert Black Women into the Civil Rights Narrative. Multicultural Perspectives.
Vickery, A. E., Salinas, C. S. (2019). “I question America…. is this America?” Learning to view the civil rights movement through an intersectional lens. Curriculum Inquiry. 49(3), 260-283. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2019.1614878
Vickery, A. E. (2019). “Still I Rise”: a Black feminist teacher’s journey to (re)member her journey to teach. Other. 1-18. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2019.1579183
King, L. J., Vickery, A. E., Caffrey, G. (2018). Racial Literacy and using the LETS ACT framework to teach controversial issues. Social Education.
Vickery, A. E. (2018). After the march, what? Rethinking how we teach the feminist movement. Other. 13(3), 402-411. Emerald. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-05-2018-0020
Vickery, A. E. (2017). “We Are All in This Struggle Together”: Toward an Active Communal Construct of Citizenship. Urban Education. 004208591772195. SAGE Publications. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0042085917721955
Vickery, A. E. (2017). “You excluded us for so long and now you want us to be patriotic?”: African American Women Teachers Navigating the Quandary of Citizenship. Other. 45(3), 318-348. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00933104.2017.1282387
Vickery, A. E. (2017). “Women know how to get things done”: narrative of an intersectional movement. Other. 12(1), 31-41. Emerald. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2017-0004
Salinas, C. S., Vickery, A. E., Franquiz, M. (2016). Advancing Border Pedagogies: Understandings of Citizenship Through Comparisons of Home to School Contexts. Other. 99(4), 322-336. Project Muse. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsj.2016.0012
Ramirez, P., E. Vickery, A., Ross, L. (2016). Critical Latina Bilingual Teachers: Interrogating and Combating a Monolingual Education in Arizona.. Bilingual Research Journal. 39(3-4), 296-308. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15235882.2016.1238856
Vickery, A. E. (2016). ‘I know what you are about to enter’: lived experiences as the curricular foundation for teaching citizenship. Other. 28(6), 725-741. Informa UK Limited. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2016.1221890
Vickery, A. E. (2016). “I Worry about My Community”: African American Women Utilizing Communal Notions of Citizenship in the Social Studies Classroom. Other. 18(1), 28. Eastern University. http://dx.doi.org/10.18251/ijme.v18i1.1061
Vickery, A. E. (2015). It was never meant for us: Towards a black feminist construct of citizenship in social studies. Other. 39(3), 163-172. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2014.12.002
Vickery, A. E., Holmes, K. (2014). Book review. Other. 38(4), 229-230. Elsevier BV. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jssr.2014.01.001

Awarded Grants

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Vickery, A., "Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Office of Scholarship & Innovation Research support mini-grant," Sponsored by Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Office of Scholarship & Innovation, Other, $325 Funded. (August 2018October 2018).
Sponsored Research
Vickery, A., "Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium," Sponsored by Library of Congress, Federal, $10000 Funded. (December 2020December 2021).
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  • Overall Summative Rating (median):
    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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