Edilberto de Jesus Did DepEd pursue an unsound strategy in mandating the use of the mother tongue as the language of instruction (LOI) from Grades K-3? Mother Tongue Based-Multilingual Education (MTBMLE) has not produced the expected improvement in children’s literacy…
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Culture-based education continues to grow and evolve in Bendum, in response to the community’s changing needs. For instance, from the basic program of Kinder to Grade 6, APC has now developed the basis by which it can offer Gulang, its…
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By Gloria Amor Paredes For the Pulangiyen people of Bendum in Bukidnon in northern Mindanao, Philippines, their land is their life. This is why their gaup or ancestral domain is at the core of all their efforts to sustain their…
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By Jenny Lynn Lee Two Department of Education (DepED) Orders in recent years are encouraging developments for Philippine education. One is DepED Order No 74, s. 2009, which institutionalized mother tongue-based multilingual education and the other is DepED Order No…
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Jenny Lynn Lee Grounding in Cultural Identity Right from the start, classes in Bendum were taught in the mother tongue. At first, this was because the community wanted their children to learn a practical literacy and numeracy that would be…
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