Philippine Cultural Knowledge by Allison Dushack https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n Allison Dushack & Alexa Temparali en-us 2020-04-30 21:54:02 UTC 2025-04-09 17:53:17 UTC hello@padlet.com Places dushackallison https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543162613 Capital: Manila
  • Bustling city with "non-stop" activity (Hamper, 2020)
  • Jeepneys - colorful jeeps which are the main source of transportation
  • Other popular places in the city: Rizal Park, San Agustin Church, Quiapo Church
Boracay
  • Considered the beach capital of the Philippines (Hamper, 2020)
  • Most popular beach: White Beach
Bohol
  • Chocolate Hills of Carmen - collection of 1,200 geological formations that resemble a landscape of chocolate candy kisses (Hamper, 2020)
]]> 2020-04-30 22:33:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543162613 Artifacts dushackallison https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543169796 Bululs
  • Stylized representations of Ilfugao and Kalanguya ancestors (Afinidad-Bernardo, 2017)
  • Ifugao tribesmen carved the wooden figures to guard rice crops
Flag
  • The sun stands for liberty
  • The sunburst of eight rays for the first eight provinces to take up arms against Spain
  • The three stars for the three island groups of the Philippines ("Learn about the,” 2017)
]]> 2020-04-30 22:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543169796 Food dushackallison https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543169937 Adobo
  • Chicken or pork cooked in vinegar, salt, garlic, pepper, soy sauce, and other spices
Lechon
  • A Pig is spit roasted over coals
  • Served with liver sauce
  • In Cebu, the stomach is stuffed with star anise, pepper, spring onions, laurel leaves and lemongrass
Taba ng talangka
  • Fat from crabs
  • Pressed in sauteed garlic
  • Often used as a sauce for prawns or eaten with fried fish and rice
Produces
  • Coconuts (largest producer)
  • Mangosteens
  • Papayas
  • Bananas
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  • Music is heavily influenced by the West due to the 333 years of Spanish rules and 45 years of American domination
  • Highland and lowland hamlets - strong Asian elements
  • Urban areas - Spanish and American influence
  • Old Asian influence (gong music, harana and kundiman)
  • Religious and secular music influenced by Spanish and European forms, 
  • American/European inspired classical, semi-classical, and popular music
    • ]]>     2020-04-30 22:40:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543170061     Classroom Management Practices dushackallison https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543170792 Teachers create a learning environment where “all children feel safe and understood and can reach their potential” (“Teaching Effectively,” 2017).
    Positive Discipline in Everyday Teaching (PDET)
    Four main ideas:
    • know what you want and what you don’t want
    • show and tell your students what you want
    • when you get what you want, acknowledge (not praise) it
    • when you get something else, act quickly and appropriately
    Teacher’s in the Philippines believe in using conflict as an opportunity to teach their students
    ]]>     2020-04-30 22:41:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543170792     Student-Teacher Interactions dushackallison https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543170973
  • Students must address elders, teachers and other persons of authority as Miss, Ma’am, Sir or Teacher X (“Philippines,” n.d.)
  • Students must stand to greet a teacher who enters the room, they must also stand when he or she leaves the room
  • Student-teacher interactions in the Philippines are much like they are here in the United States
  • Classrooms are facing hard times financially and lack of resources
  • Relationships between teachers and students are very important to make up for lack of resources
    • ]]>     2020-04-30 22:41:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/543170973     Education System at3298 https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544811235 K-12 model with school year running from June to April
    • "Paralang Elementarya” (Primary School) - grades K-6, 
    •  “Paaralang Sekundarya” (Junior High School) - grades 7-10
    • “Mataas na paaralan/ hayskul” (Senior High School) - grades 11-12 (“The education system in the Philippines,” 2017)
    ]]>     2020-05-01 20:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544811235     Educational Beliefs at3298 https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544820561 aim to nurture the “holistically developed Filipino” and instill a sense of nationalism (GOVPH, n.d.).

    aims to prepare students in four areas: 
    • Information, media and technology skills
    • learning and innovation skills
    • effective communication skills
    •  life and career skills
    ]]>     2020-05-01 20:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544820561     Beliefs at3298 https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544828070
  • Over 80% Catholic (Cultural Atlas, n.d.). 
  • About 5% Islamic
  • over 100 denominations of Protestant churches
  • other Christian denominations
  • indigenous beliefs (Miller, n.d.). 
    • ]]>     2020-05-01 20:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544828070     Language at3298 https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544845086
  • Over 100 languages are spoken in the Philippines (Koyfman, 2019)
    • 2 Official languages
    • English-used by the government and used in math/science classes in school (“The education system in the Philippines,” 2017)
    • Filipino-used in media like movies and  used in reading, writing, and social studies classes in school (“The education system in the Philippines,” 2017)
      • An updated version of Tagalog
      • the terms Tagalog and Filipino are often used interchangeably
    Follow the link to an interactive map showing the top 10 languages spoken in the Philippines

    ]]>     2020-05-01 20:38:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544845086     Practices at3298 https://padlet.com/dushackallison/8h9jq08sai5y446n/wish/544851736 Christmas
    • biggest celebrations in the Philippines
    • celebrations can begin before December even begins.
    • Celebrations may take the form of:
      • music
      • dancing
      • feasting
      • beauty contests
      • balls
      • processions
      • sports challenges 
      • a host of other events (Abundo, 2015)
    Weddings 
    • often very religious
    •  “a covenant between two who love each other in God and with God, whose joining becomes an expression of the desire of each to love and serve God together” (Abundo, 2015).  
    Deaths 
    • first nine days - prayers and masses in the deceased honor
    •  The first forty days - mourning period 
      • relatives wear a small black rectangular pin to show their state of bereavement
    • After these forty-days - mass is held  and the soul enters heaven (Abundo, 2015). 
    “Pagamano”
    • Shows respect of elders
    • a younger person takes the hand of an older individual and places the back of the older person’s hand on their forehead (Escalona, 2017)
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