TEACHING PHILOSOPHY |
MY APPROACH |
Trained in both American history and Ethnic Studies, I adamantly believe in the necessity of history as a tool to understand the contemporary world and dismantle its problems and inequalities. To help students jettison tired stereotypes that history necessarily privileges the victors and powerful, I invite students to become their own historians through assignments that take them beyond the classroom into public spheres, museums, and their own family dinner table. To learn more about my specific approaches to the art and passion of teaching, feel free to contact me at jeanpaul.deguzman <at> ucla.edu.
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My intellectual interests and expertise informs my role as a professor and teacher. I have served as a faculty member at California State University, Long Beach (History Department), UC Santa Barbara (Asian American Studies Department), and UCLA (Asian American Studies, Chicanx Studies, and History Departments; the Honors Collegium; and the Interracial Dynamics General Education Cluster Program). In 2013, I received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCLA Academic Senate, the university's highest teaching honor.
Committed to socially engaged pedagogy and project-based learning, my students and I have built various digital archives (including one for the nearly 100-year old San Fernando Valley Hongwanji Buddhist Temple) and curated two pop-up immigration museums at UCLA's Powell Library. Currently, I am a member of the faculty of the Department of History at Windward School in Mar Vista, California where I teach courses in U.S. history (including the Advanced Placement survey and America in the World) and the foundations of historical thinking. At Windward I am invested in supporting Diversity and Inclusivity initiatives and cultivating interdisciplinary linkages to further pedagogical development and engagement with the wider LA landscape. I continue to teach at UCLA in the Interracial Dynamics GE Cluster Program and Asian American Studies Department as an adjunct faculty member, offering an advanced first-year seminar on race and LA history as well as the introductory survey for Asian American history. To learn more about the courses I taught at CSULB, UCLA, and UCSB click here. For some snapshots of student and faculty evaluations, go here. |