Pakikipag-Kapwa: Filipino Indigenous Ways of Knowing for Decolonial Studies in Filipino-American Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium aims to: (1) introduce Kapwa as a foundational theoretical framework for understanding decolonial pedagogy for Filipinos and Filipino Americans; (2) examine practical applications of Kapwa across diverse educational contexts; and (3) investigate implications for creating more transformative decolonial educational research practices rooted in Indigenous Filipino epistemologies. The presentations provide a theoretical analysis of Kapwa and pakikipagkwentuhan based on existing empirical studies, tsismis as a critical epistemological tool grounded in Kapwa and Pakikipwagkwentuhan, an exploration role of Kapwa and pakikipagkwentuhan in analyzing Filipino and Filipino-American picture books and digital spaces, and a space for speculative discourse and re-imagination of Kapwa as a decolonial tool in computing and socio-technical designs.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Decolonial, Postcolonial, and Anti-Colonial Studies in Education

Chair

• Eric Claravall, California State University - Sacramento

Papers

• Kapwa as a Decolonial Lens in Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy - Eric Claravall, California State University - Sacramento

• Tsismis as Decolonizing Epistemology - Elizabeth Isidro, Western Michigan University

• Kapwa, Kuwento, Kalaro: Engaging Filipino Children in Literary and Mediated Spaces - Cheeno Marlo Sayuno, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Kapwa as a Speculative Lens for Interrogating Sociotechnical Systems and Tech - Francisco Castro, New York University

Session Organizer

• Eric Claravall, California State University - Sacramento

Discussant

• Roland Sintos Coloma, Wayne State University