Testimonio at work: the power of Malintzin researchers

Authors

Freyca Calderon-Berumen
Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Karla O'Donald

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-21-2022

Abstract

We are three Latin American women, once travellers – now US dwellers, mujeres de color, Mestizas, Neplanteras – sometimes ‘Malintzin researchers’ struggling to make sense of all our pieces, identities and changing faces. We draw upon the disruption of apartheid of knowledge in academia, arguing for counter-narratives through the use of pláticas and testimonio as tools to theorize personal experiences that contribute to the decolonization of educational research. We are advancing pláticas and testimonios as epistemological and methodological approaches to challenge and disrupt widespread Westernized research approaches that continue colonizing the U.S. education research.

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Recommended Citation

Calderon-Berumen, F., Espinosa-Dulanto, M., & O'Donald, K. (2022). Testimonio at work: the power of Malintzin researchers. International journal of research & method in education, 45(4), 370-380. http://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2022.2076829

Publication Title

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

DOI

10.1080/1743727X.2022.2076829