ERIC Number: EJ1426894
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Publication Date: 2024
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Revisiting Testimonio as Critical Race Feminista Methodology in Educational Research
Lindsay Pérez Huber; Germán Aguilar-Tinajero
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n5 p1272-1286 2024
This study is a review of educational scholarship that has utilized "testimonio" as a methodological approach. We begin with a brief overview of "testimonio", highlighting its discursive subversions that align with longstanding traditions of storytelling within Communities of Color, and in critical race storytelling. We then describe how "testimonio" is an important tool within a broader Critical Race Feminista Methodology--a space of theorizing humanizing, anti-colonial methodological approaches that disrupt structural oppression and are guided by "a nostalgia for wholeness" (Delgado Bernal, Pérez Huber, & Malagon, 2019). "Testimonio" as a Critical Race Feminista Methodology allows for an interweaving of Chicana feminist and critical race epistemological and theoretical tools with qualitative research methods to cultivate methodological space for "convivencia", critical reflection, collective knowledge production, and healing. Through this literature review, we see how this methodology brings mutual validation, shared humanity, and imperatives of social justice to the fore, shifting our research praxis from one that reproduces the colonial project, to one that seeks to transform and lead to collective well-being.
Descriptors: Critical Race Theory, Feminism, Educational Research, Hispanic Americans, Epistemology, Social Justice, Well Being, Research Methodology, Story Telling
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