RESEARCH STUDIES

Dr. Penelope V. Flores

Dr. Vincent K. Pollard

The Filipino American Family Ways: A Comparison with the Early Colonial Family Ways
By Dr. Penelope V. Flores

An article based on P. V. Flores, (2000). The Origins of Diversity: Ethnogenesis Applied to the American Colonial Experience. Journal of Interdisciplinary Education, July Vol . 5, No.1, pp 149-154.

Dr. Penélope V. Flores is a tenured full professor of education at the College of Education, San Francisco State University. She teaches courses in the Teacher Credential Program, which is a master-level program of studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education from the University of Chicago, her MS in Education from the University of Pennyslvania, and her BS in Education from the Philippine Normal University in Manila. She has a wide teaching and educational policy experience in the Philippines and many developing countries in the world. Her latest assignment was as a Curriculum Evaluation expert in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (2004) and as Primary School Adviser, Indonesia (2005).

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Power Sharing, Plural Governance, and Foreign Policy Success in the Philippines
By Dr. Vincent K. Pollard

What is the key to success or failure in foreign affairs? Foreign policy making case studies from the Philippines in the 1960s and 1980s demonstrate that power sharing—willing and unwilling—is more critical than previously suspected.

Vincent K. Pollard is a specialist in comparative politics. He earned graduate degrees at The University of Chicago and the University of Hawai‘i-Manoa. Pollard did interviews and library research in 1995/1996 as a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

Since the 1990s, Dr. Pollard has been teaching political science, Asian studies and research design in the University of Hawai‘i System. Among other works, he has written Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership: Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan (Ashgate,
2004). Pollard is founding editor of the Chinese Cultures Abroad WWW Virtual Libraries and two other Internet libraries. Www2.hawaii.edu/~pollard is the URL to his “Asia, U.S., Hawai‘i, world politics, futures” website.

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