June 21, 2016
We are excited to announce that Dr. John Paul Catungal of UBC’s Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Kababayan Academic Mentorship Program (KAMP) have been selected to receive one of six prestigious Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project awards to pursue a community-academic research partnership titled “Mentorship as political practice”. This collaborative project will examine mentorship as a form of community building through which members of the Filipino-Canadian community in Greater Vancouver / Coast Salish territories respond to the disproportionately high rates of educational incompletion among Filipino-Canadian school-aged youth. The main goal of our upcoming research project is to encourage broad dialogue about Filipino-Canadian educational experiences, including the role of community-based ethno-specific organizing and social infrastructures in responses to the academic and social challenges faced by recently migrated youth from the Philippines.
This research partnership will be implemented over the course of the 2016-2017 school year. Along with KAMP and Dr. Catungal, the research team will include some past KAMP mentors, who will receive training as community researchers and analysts for the project. The project timeline will include a research project launch event that will also serve as an alumni reunion, weekend training sessions in research methods and analysis with the project team, data collection and analysis. The results of the project will be shared at a community research showcase towards the end of the project lifespan. We will also produce a website, research report outlining our findings, and a short video to be debuted at our showcase.
Dr. Catungal and the Directors of KAMP are eager to be co-creators in this participatory and community-led action research and dialogue. It is our hope that this research will deepen our understanding of mentorship and inform the foundations of how we situate and continue our community work in response to processes and effects of educational abandonment and its impacts on Filipino-Canadian youth.
Contact info:
Dr. John Paul Catungal, GRSJ Institute, UBC: catungal@mail.ubc.ca
Maureen Mendoza, Director, KAMP: info@kamp.education
