Tag Archive: Bendum

Learning and teaching Laudato Si’: Enabling the youth’s sense of belonging

To address the urgent problems of today, the one thing educators must teach the youth is a sense of belonging, according to Pedro Walpole SJ, Executive Director of the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center (APC). “We are kept so busy…
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Challenges of multiple cultures and multiple languages for communities of practice

Communities of practice (CoP) are greatly challenged with increased multilingualism and there is a critical need to review and re-think ways in which they work. Multiple languages and multiple cultures provide new and unique contexts for community development workers trying to…
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JVP volunteers at APC’s junior high school

Through an ongoing partnership with ESSC, the Jesuit Volunteers Philippines (JVP) Foundation assigned two volunteers, Adelwina “Wen” Asuncion and Jed Angelo Marcelo, to join the teaching staff of the newly-opened junior high school at the Apu Palamguwan Cultural Education Center…
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Organic market in Valladolid, Spain: Helping educational projects in the Philippines

Paula Sendín The University School of Agricultural Engineering (INEA in Spanish) in Valladolid, Spain held its latest edition of the Ecological and Solidarity Market last 16 September jointly with growers of organic gardens, a green project that the community has…
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Strengthening cultural integrity through culture-based education

Paula Sendín The so-called civilized world was built on the principle that development is linked to education which eventually will help in developing a community or even a nation. Thus, economic and social development can be achieved through intellectual formation,…
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