Isang Bagsak as an Educational Framework: Including Asian Americans in Social Justice Education

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Abstract

This conceptual paper aims to expand the Filipino cultural concept of “Isang Bagsak” into an educational framework for researchers and education practitioners that ensures that Asian American narratives, histories, and epistemologies are included in social justice education spaces. Exploring Isang Bagsak as an education framework not only fights for Asian American inclusion in social justice spaces, but it validates Filipino labor and cultural concepts as accessible and transferable educational tools. The main research questions this paper addresses are the following: 1) how can we theorize ways to include Asian Americans in social justice teaching and learning spaces, 2) how can social justice scholarship be informed by Asian Americans, and 3) how can Asian Americans concretize our cultural symbols into tools?

Author

• Tony DelaRosa, University of Wisconsin - Madison