Kuwentuhan as Method and Practice in Education Research

CFSC celebrates a new publication from Dr. Rose Ann Gutierrez, Hazel Piñon and Trisha Valmocena.

Gutierrez, R. A. E., Piñon, H., & Valmocena, M. T. (2023). Co-creating knowledge with undocumented Filipino students: Kuwentuhan as research method. New Directions for Higher Education, 2023(203), 77-92. http://doi.org/10.1002/he.20478

This conversation features the authors in conversation about their article and Kuwentuhan as a method of data collection. Their bios are below:

Rose Ann Rico Eborda Gutierrez is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research is informed by a Pinay epistemology and positionality as a 1.5-generation immigrant, first-generation college student, and the only daughter of working-class Pilipino immigrants. Her critical analytical lens as a race scholar in higher education undergird her resolve to improve the conditions and opportunities of historically oppressed communities across the lifespan through educational research and practice. Her broader research agenda examines the relationship between knowledge, race, and social transformation in higher education contexts. She seeks to understand how racial inequities in education are reserved at the intersection of and in relationship with other systems of oppression, how students navigate these systems using embodied epistemologies, and what the role higher education institutions play in shaping student pathways and outcomes across P-20. She focuses on low-income, immigrant, immigrant-origin, undocumented, and first-generation Students of Color, and more specifically, Asian American and Pacific Islander students. Her interdisciplinary research about racial equity in higher education and intersectional justice is anchored by critical theories and critical qualitative methodologies.