Pag-Ibig sa Tinubuang Bayan
- Dr. Paul Dumol
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By Dr. Paul Arvisu Dumol
Last April and May a team of UA&P teachers, of which I had the good fortune to form part, held training seminars for public school teachers. The topic of the seminars was the integration of civic education into the high school Social Studies curriculum. We—Mr. Mirshariff Tillah and Mr. John Avila of the Institute of Political Economy, Mr. Clement Camposano and I from the Department of History, and Dr. Severina Villegas and Miss Gladys Golo of the School of Education—held four workshops in four different sites: the UA&P campus, Baguio, Panglao Island (Bohol), and Zamboanga City in that order. Each seminar was attended by more or less thirty master teachers of Social Studies 116 all in all. The experience was both eye-opening and moving. What I wish to do this morning is to share with you some reflections on “pag-ibig sa tinubuang bayan,” the topic I made a presentation on in the seminars. It would not be inexact to say the reflections evolved as we traveled from Luzon to Mindanao. My particular interest in the topic involved understanding what we mean by bayan.
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