Gerald H. Campano
Gerald Campano is Professor in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education Division at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a proud third generation Pinoy from the East Coast. For close to 10 years, he worked as a public-school teacher in Texas and California’s Central Valley. Gerald’s scholarly interests span elementary literacy teaching, critical ethnic studies, immigrant education, and practitioner and participatory research approaches. Throughout his academic career, he has been interested in universalizing research as an epistemic right through community-based inquiry methodologies premised on an ethics of care and interdependence. One of Gerald’s research projects is an over decade-long research-practice partnership with a faith-based organization in South Philadelphia. The partnership involves thinking and researching alongside families from diverse cultural and linguistic communities as they investigate issues of social inequity and construct a shared vision of education justice and immigrant rights that may be shared in teacher professional learning contexts. Gerald is also involved in a collaboration with colleagues from the University of Guadalajara, exploring literacy teacher education from a transnational and decolonial perspective.