Indigenous children in Tabuk, Kalinga will go back to school this Tuesday, their curriculum no longer old school but more culturally sensitive, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines said Sunday.
“It is a strategy that can easily go hand in hand with the effort of the vicariate to heighten cultural sensitivity through the indigenization of the formal school curriculum," Maria Lourie Victor of the CBCP’s Episcopal Commission on Indigenous Peoples said.
The Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines in Cordillera Administrative Region was responsible for including the Indigenous Peoples' Education in the curriculum, according to the CBCP.
The program was launched in the vicariate schools of the Apostolic Vicariate of Tabuk during the Kalinga-Apayao Teachers-Administrator’s Seminar from June 3 to 5.
"Combined by the efforts of the vicariate schools of Tabuk, under the leadership of Vicariate Schools Superintendent Sr. Helen Orejudos, IP Education is a growing response to the clamor for a more culturally-appropriate education for indigenous communities," the CBCP said.
The seminar introduced the latest approach to teaching that involves understanding by design being implemented by the Department of Education. —Ma. Carmela Guanzon Lapeña/VS
