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August 2009 > Students > Honors
Human Development Student Gets Research Grant
Irenka Domínguez-Pareto, a doctoral candidate in Human Development and Education, has been awarded a highly competitive UC MEXUS Dissertation Research Grant, which will fund her dissertation for two years.
The working title of her research is "Learning Advocacy as Mothering in the Globalized US: Agency & Language Socialization among Mexican Mothers of Children with Cognitive Disabilities in the Bay Area.” It examines the experiences, discourse practices and learning processes among a group of Mexican-origin, Spanish-speaking mothers of children with cognitive disabilities organizing and participating in support and advocacy groups in the Bay Area.
Domínguez-Pareto writes that the mixed-methods study is “aimed at gaining a privileged look at a part of the Latino immigrants’ experiences that is generally overlooked: the agentive and purposeful negotiation and learning process that is involved in the parenting practices of those who have immigrated and whose primary language is not the primary language of their children’s educational and care systems. Moreover, this project aims to contribute to the literature by showing how knowledge generated by expert systems enters everyday lives and shapes them through negotiation and appropriation of linguistic discourses.
"I'm hopeful that the research project will contribute to the national debate on immigration by going beyond essentialisms that define Mexican and Latino immigration in the U.S. in heterogenic terms, and will offer ways to understand parenting as a personal enterprise, as a learning-socialization process and as a sociocultural practice in a sociopolitical world.”
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