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KONTEMPORARYONG
ISYU
Civic Education
Curriculum

Course Goal
Malalim na pag-unawa gamit ang
(a) mga kasanayan sa pagsisiyasat
(b) pagsusuri ng datos at ibat ibang sanggunian
(c) pananaliksik
(d) mapanuring pag-iisip
(e) mabisang komunikasyon
(f) pagiging makatarungan
(g) matalinong pagpapasya

Course Method

The teacher does not supply the

student with information.
Rather, he guides the student in
research and in critical
thinking.
Identical to Project Citizen

Civic Education Goals

The student is able to evaluate

issues and solutions to them that
have been proposed

Civic Education Goals

Citizenship is not being a member of a society from which
you try to squeeze out everything you can for you and
your family, but rather working with everyone to pursue
the common good.
The good citizen pursues the truth in his investigation of
issues.
He appreciates the power of action to change the future.
He is concerned about justice and prudence in the
resolution of issues.
He understands solidarity and subsidiarity correctly.

Civic Education Content

(a) Criteria for evaluating issues
The common good
Truth
(b) Criteria for evaluating proposed solutions
Action
Justice
Prudence
Solidarity
Subsidiarity

Common Good
The sum total of social conditions which
allow people, either as groups or as
individuals, to reach their fulfillment more
fully and more easily.
The common good concerns the life of all. It calls for prudence
from each, and even more from those who exercise the office of
authority. The common good is always oriented towards the
progress of persons.

Three Essential Elements

of the Common Good
The common good presupposes respect for
the person as such.
The common good requires the social wellbeing and development of the group itself.
The common good requires peace, that is,
the stability and security of a just order.

The Political Community or State

It is the role of the state to

defend and promote the common
good of civil society, its citizens,
and intermediate bodies.

Two Truths to Pursue

the truth about whats happening

facts

the truth about the rightness of

ideas
regarding action, ethics
regarding the human being and society, philosophical
anthropology

The Pursuit of Truth

Who or what is the source?
What are the reasons given?
Look at all sides of the question
These issues are typically multi-disciplinary (history,
science, law, politics, economics, sociology, ethics and
morals)
We cannot limit ourselves to one discipline alone

Ethics and morals rule: the end does not justify the
means
The all-surpassing importance of truth

Controversial Items
in the DepEd Curriculum

B9 Learning Competency:
Natataya ang epekto ng
Climate Change sa
kapaligiran, lipunan, at
kabuhayan ng tao sa bansa
at sa daigdig

On Climate Change
We are not sure whether it can be
blamed on human beings
We are not sure whether there is
anything unusual about current
climate change
Introduce students to Bjorn Lomborg
and others like him

Controversial Items
in the DepEd Curriculum

C15 Learning Competency:

Nasusuri ang sanhi at epekto
ng political dynasties sa
pagpapanatili ng malinis at
matatag na pamahalaan

On Political Dynasties
Should someone competent be
disqualified from running for
office merely because he or she
is related to a high government
official?

Controversial Items
in the DepEd Curriculum
Ika-3 markahan, B Mga Isyu na may
Kaugnayan sa Kasarian (Gender)
1.Gender & Sexuality
2.Reproductive Health Law
3.Same-sex Marriage

On Choice of Sex, Same-sex

Marriage, and the Reproductive
Health Law

Deeper Issues
what constitutes a right
whether one can actually choose ones sex
the rightness of choosing a sexuality contrary to
that of ones sex
the nature of marriage
the role of government in the intimate lives of
citizens
forcing people to act against their conscience

Deeper Issues
The rightness of subtly or overtly making
students accept ideas against their conscience
Including controversial curriculum content is fine;
but making something controversial look
uncontroversial is not
Can the teacher be forced to teach material
against his or her conscience?
What can the teacher do if the contemporary
issues include material against his or her
conscience?
Silence?

Civic Education Content

Action
Justice
Prudence
Solidarity
Subsidiarity

Action
ACTION IS THE CONSCIOUS, FREE, AND
EFFICACIOUS INTERVENTION IN A TEMPORAL
PROCESS
Process: a series of events of a temporal character
Intervention: to modify a series
NEW, DISTINCT EVENTS TAKE PLACE THAT WOULD NEVER EXIST
IF THE HUMAN BEING DID NOT INTERVENE WITH HIS ACTION

The Elements of Action

1.Intention
2.Motivation
3.The action itself
4. Knowledge

Commutative Justice
Regulates exchanges between persons and
between institutions in accordance with a
strict respect for their rights. Commutative
justice obliges strictly; it requires
safeguarding property rights, paying debts,
and fulfilling obligations freely contracted.
Without commutative justice, no other
form of justice is possible.

Legal Justice

Concerns what the citizen

owes in fairness to the
community

Distributive Justice

Regulates what the community

owes its citizens in proportion to
their contributions and needs.

Social Justice
The conditions that allow associations
or individuals to obtain what is their
due, according to their nature and their
vocation. Social justice is linked to the
common good and the exercise of
authority. Social justice can be obtained
only in respecting the transcendent
dignity of man.

Prudence
Prudence disposes the practical
reason to discern, in every
circumstance, our true good and
to choose the right means for
achieving it.

The Principle of Solidarity

Friendship or social charity

The Principle of Solidarity

Manifested by the distribution of
goods and remuneration for work.
Presupposes the effort for a more
just social order where tensions are
better able to be reduced and
conflicts more readily settled by
negotiation

The Principle of Solidarity

Socio-economic problems can be resolved
only with the help of all the forms of
solidarity: solidarity of the poor among
themselves, between rich and poor, of
workers among themselves, between
employers and employees in a business,
solidarity among nations and peoples

The Principle of Subsidiarity

A community of a higher order
should not interfere in the internal life of a
community of a lower order,
depriving the latter of its functions,
but rather should support it in case of need
and help to co-ordinate its activity with the
activities of the rest of society,
always with a view to the common good.

Civic Education Methodology

Lecture
Analysis
Evaluation
SOCRATIC QUESTIONING

Civic Education Methodology

THE TEACHER GUIDES THE STUDENTS,
DIALOGUES WITH THEM,
ARGUES,
PLAYS DEVILS ADVOCATE,
PROPOSES OBJECTIONS,
ENCOURAGES,
REFINES,
CHALLENGES THE STUDENTS TO BE MORE PRECISE AND
EXACT.

Civic Education Evaluation

Continuous
Group portfolios