<em>Kapwa</em> Across Contexts: Acculturation and Enculturation in Filipino American Identity at Home and in School

<p><em>Kapwa Across Contexts: Acculturation and Enculturation in Filipino American Identity at Home and in School </em>examines how Filipino American identity is shaped across two primary sites: K–12 schooling and the Filipino American home in Southern California. Centering first-generation Filipino immigrant parents and their U.S.-born second-generation children, this qualitative study is guided by AsianCrit, Culturally Responsive Methodologies (CRM), and Nadal’s Filipino American Identity Model. Using narrative inquiry, six Filipino American family units (6 children; 8 parents) participated in individual and joint dyad interviews and Culturally Responsive Musical Inquiry (CRMI), in which families co-composed an original song. Findings indicate that K–12 schooling often emphasized achievement, respectability, and model-minority logics while offering limited Filipino-centered curriculum, leading many students to build “around-school” belonging through peers and extracurricular spaces. In contrast, home functioned as the most consistent engine of enculturation through everyday cultural practice (food, faith, kin networks, and relational ethics). Many participants described Filipino-centered reclamation in emerging adulthood and bidirectional enculturation as adult children brought new frameworks into family dialogue. Implications include the need for culturally sustaining curriculum and school leadership that moves beyond performative inclusion toward Filipino historical grounding and relationally accountable family engagement. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Year

2026

Author dc:creator

• Jamias, Jared

Contributors dc:contributor

• Whitney McIntyre Miller
• Quaylan Allen

• acculturation
• enculturation
• filipino
• filipino american
• narrative inquiry
• culturally responsive methodologies
• Educational Leadership

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_dissertations/108

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.chapman.edu:education_dissertations-1107