The first day of the LCC general assembly of NGOs started with an opening ritual designed and led by 15 Aytas from Botolan Zambales. As we held lighted candles they had made from native beeswax, they chanted prayers punctuated by wailing cries to Apo Namalyari.
It was an apt symbolism to start the conference on literacy [...]
Am jotting these notes just before rushing off to Seameo Innotech for the opening of the first general assembly of NGOs involved in literacy. It is being convened by the LCC - the Literacy Coordinating Council.
Ka Carling Domulot and 15 Aytas from Botolan Zambales are doing the opening ritual and a short skit on their [...]
After the excitement of attending a first international conference, I find many of the formal programs rather predictable. What makes many conferences worth the time and money spent are the conversations that happen during the breaks, at meals, or at night over drinks. Of course they may be triggered by something said at the formal [...]
Some years back, ELF decided to produce workbooks on Learning Theories for grassroots educators. The first pair of educators whom we featured were Freire and Grundtvig, and we consider their ideas complementary.
Although Freire’s ideas on education continued to evolve till his death 10 years ago, it is what he wrote in the Pedagogy of the [...]
This Saturday, September 1, I fly to Korea for a UNESCO-sponsored policy conference on lifelong learning. I think this is part of the process toward the international conference on adult education, CONFINTEA VI, which will be held in Brazil in 2009.
While I was doing my jurus at our kalimasada session tonight, I thought of the [...]
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