FEU - Institute of Education

The Quarantine Period The COVID-19 pandemic has seemingly brought down and put halt to many of the societal systems and structures. Schooling being part of the normal societal function and structure was not exempted to this crippling effect of the virus. However, while normal school operation ceases, the virus failed to stop one thing that keeps humanity from progressing - LEARNING. Being at HOME Being at home does not mean disabling faculties of thinking. In fact, being at home gives us the comfort of learning, unlearning, and relearning. Ms. Andrea Austria, one of the the Institute's professional and general education facilitator, gave some tips on how one can stay motivated and productive even during this quarantine period.  Opportunity to Learn As the pandemic brings serious problems in many aspects of our society, a thinking individual cannot help but think how this crisis would end, where would this bring us as a society, and how this would change the way ...

Poems for Thought

By Josiah Rei Balbuena BSEd-English Student The very first thing that I learned in the Social Dimensions classes was that whole deal with Michel Focault and his perspective on “knowledge is power.”  After that, everything seemed to follow a distinct pattern, as if every other theory out there fell into a structure of its own. Having realized that there exists a structure in our society and how it perceives things such as education, the work-force, politics, and other such things, I just couldn’t help but connect all the other discussions we’ve had in class to the structure that we’ve been encouraged to see. Maybe it’s a good thing that I’ve managed to pick it up so quickly, even if it can be a little presumptuous for me to do so. But I’ve also realized that it can also backfire quite easily, as I might create a one-track mind of looking at anything and everything as having a structure to blame for all the problems. Whenever we are engaged in a discussion or confronted wi...

By Raphael Lactao BSEd - English Student In all the heated arguments and pithy analyzations about the papers given to us by our professor, F. Sionil Jose’s “Why we are shallow” had the most different number of interpretations. We have read plenty of academic papers by venerable researchers and educators, but I did not expect that the great minds in our classroom would become turbulent because of a newspaper article from the literary section. Some thought about it hardly, and some hardly thought about it, and some just over-analyzed the trivial matters in the paper. The thing is, when you read a literary article, you should not be thinking at all, you should be in a meditative state that causes you to process the words, sentences, and paragraphs in a way that you would not judge it at first glance because it is somebody else’s experience. F Sionil Jose did not write that with any form of intellectual back-up or provisions, because he had no need for such, for he only wrote from...