Decolonizing Educational Research: Re-Storying How We Empower and Transform Filipina/x/o Communities

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Education research that aims to dismantle racial injustice demands scholars to critically analyze our praxis. This session highlights four research projects that utilized transformative, culturally responsive, and decolonizing methodologies that revealed the potential to empower educators and improve learning outcomes of P-20 Filipina/x/o students. The panelists chose qualitative methodologies like indigenous Ilokano storytelling, pakasaritaan; Tagalog storytelling, kuwentuhan; a critical reflection of personal experiences, testimonio; and a quantitative methodology of multi-path analysis to re-story how we engage in a research praxis that (1) centered the experiences of oppressed people of color in the pursuit of truth, (2) challenged what and who is considered “legitimate” sources for research, and (3) provided a pedagogy of action to dismantle injustice in education.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Patricia Espiritu Halagao, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Papers

• Our Struggle to Belong: A Story of Decolonization of a Hawaiʻi-Born Ilokano Filipino Educator - Phillippe Rivera Fernandez-Brennan, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

• Filipino Families as the Source in Early Childhood Education - Tryshna Malonzo, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

• Decolonizing Our Data: A Critical Quantitative Multiethnic Investigation of Filipino Student Success - Leighton Vila, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

• Dallot: Indigenous Educational Pedagogy for a New Generation - Michelle Levine Aquino, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Discussant

• Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales, San Francisco State University