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Last week I had an interview with a history teacher who is doing a research on student activism in Cebu, and I shared with her my experiences of educating for social consciousness and transformation even before martial…
The intense fear inflicted by Martial Law sent various signals. Some slowly left the country, private schools especially Catholic schools turned over their schools to another congregation. I am familiar with three cases of such schools. St.…
Fake news is not something new. During the election campaign of the 2016 elections, it was a powerful machinery for some candidates. But it was during the dictatorship that the country was bombarded with fake news, and…
Tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of the September 11 attack that taught us deep lessons about life, humanity and ourselves that will never make it into a history book. One lesson we learned is that there is…
According to the Philippine Institute of Development Studies, there is an alarming 57 percent dropout rate among junior public high school students. Among the reasons are lack of interest due to overcrowded classrooms that challenge the endurance…
Celebrating the 448th founding anniversary of Cebu province on the theme “Hiniusang Paningkamot, Kalambuan Karon ug sa Umaabot” gave me a chance to browse over the “History of Cebu Province” written by Dr. Resil B. Mojares. This…
July this year has been a reunion-filled month what with six reunions I attended. Five of these reunions were with my former students: two from St. Catherine’s School (Batches ’71 and ’72), three from UP Cebu High…
The passing away of Dr. Thelma B. Kintanar, erstwhile feminist and scholar, “visionary and doer” as former president Jose Abueva called her, three weeks ago reminded me of the work on women and cultural literacy, which I…
It was a rare treat to have two lectures in one day (July 13) by a research scholar and an archivist. Dr. Christina Lee, a research scholar of the Spanish and Portuguese Studies of Princeton University, and…
In answer to the clamor for a program that will serve as a springboard in a new approach to the teaching of nationalism by cultivating pride of place, schools are painstakingly working out a way of making…
People go on pilgrimage to the holy places and miracle sites of their religion. To go on an inter-faith pilgrimage is a rarity and this was what Prof. Henry Francis Espiritu, philosophy teacher of UP Cebu did.…
We carry the heart and soul of the Filipino. Graduations are somber affairs. The sight of halls filled with long, dark togas and mortarboard caps are part of an age-old tradition of academia, one borrowed from universities…
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