URAP

Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project is a systematic review of AA&PI teachers and how they are discussed across peer-reviewed scholarship to date. The project's goals are to 1) map the field of research on AA&PI K–12 educators by identifying peer-reviewed sources published to date, 2) examine thematic trends...

Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

The purpose of this project is to uplift the unique contributions of AA&PI teacher-content creators in relation to perceptions about AA&PI communities and broader educational discourse on equity-focused and race-conscious policies and programs. We aim to identify thematic trends in AA&PI teacher-content creators...

Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

This project explores California-based Pacific Islander (PI) college students' experiences with identity formation, familial socialization, intergroup relations, and education for social change. Through qualitative research methods, this project aims to uplift collective sensemaking about the decisions that PI families make to perpetuate their linguistic and cultural ways of knowing...

Kourtney Kawano - Professor, Education

Status: Open     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: Off Campus

Although California school districts have been successful in defending students and teachers’ legal right to engage with complex issues and ideas in Ethnic Studies courses, these attacks have implications for educators’ capacities to teach without fear of surveillance and retaliation and potential consequences for Berkeley’s vision of a community in...