Name of Project:
Seminar-Workshop on the Teaching of the Rizal Course in College
Date and Venue:
December 27-29, 2013 at the Bulwagang Rizal, UP-Diliman Campus,
Quezon City
Organizers:
Departamento ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, College of Arts
and Letters, University of the Philippines Diliman, the Social Sciences
Department, De La Salle University-Dasmariñas, Cavite and KAGURI
(Kapisanan ng mga Gurong Rizalista, Inc.)
Cooperating
Agencies:
Convenor:
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
Knights of Rizal
Angeles University Foundation
New Era University
Miriam College
Prof. Albina Peczon Fernandez, Ph.D.
Chair of KAGURI Board of Trustees and Professorial Lecturer of the Rizal
Course at the Depto. ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas, CAL, UPDiliman Tel. 924-4899 (UP), Mobile No. 09278319379
Email: kaguri1861@gmail.com; fernandez.albina@gmail.com
Target Participants: College and university faculty members presently teaching the Rizal
course and those who are planning to teach it.
General Objective: To professionalize the teaching of the Rizal subject in college as mandated
by Republic Act No. 1425 (The Rizal Law).
Specific Objectives:
The Seminar -Workshop aims to impart to the participants the following:
1. An appreciation of Republic Act No. 1425 as the guidepost of the course content;
2. An understanding of the text/context/intertext principle in the pursuit of historicity;
3. The ability to produce a scholarly syllabus that focuses on Rizal's role in history as an
intellectual and a patriot;
4. The capacity to conduct a class in keeping with sound pedagogical methods.
Rationale
Senators Claro M. Recto and Jose P. Laurel, who fathered Republic Act 1425, envisioned
Rizal as the guiding light for the youth so that they can contribute meaningfully in the building
and strengthening of the Philippine nation-state. This is a tall order for any teacher. Firstly,
because Rizal was a complex persona and his social and political ideas inscribed in his
voluminous writings require knowledge in many areas of study such as philosophy,
historiography, sociology, politics and literature and the arts, to name but a few; and, secondly,
because the concept of nation-state building also requires adequate knowledge about the civil
society and governance.
It is no secret that qualified teachers to teach the Rizal course are hard to come by. But
since the course is mandated by law as a required subject for graduation, the demand outstrips
the supply. Consequently, the subject is handled by teachers, who more likely than not,
manhandle Rizal, so to speak, by falsifying and distorting him and his writings. These include
among them the following:
1. Those whose academic training do not prepare them adequately for the job such as
holders of degrees in nursing, criminology, physical education, hotel management, and the like;
2. Those assigned the job based not on academic credentials but economic reasons: on the
school management side, to save money by not having to hire a qualified Rizal teacher and
assigns the subject to a faculty member in need of a full load; on the faculty member side, to
teach the course for extra units for additional pay.
3. Those, whose adherence to dogmas and beliefs imposed by organized religion, will not
discuss in class the writings of Rizal that they consider heretical and injurious to their religion;
4. Those, who, to cover up their lack of understanding or misunderstanding regarding the
essential Rizal (the social commentator par excellence of a colonial and feudal society) focus
more on trivia such as Rizal's love life, rather than the national hero's ideas on the national
community, freedom, and governance.
5. Those, who, instead of reading Rizal's writings for themselves rely on the readings of
others, notably Renato Constantino and Ambeth Ocampo, and pass this on to their students.
6. Those who, for ideological reasons, dismiss Rizal as unfit to be considered as the
national hero for the status properly belongs to Andres Bonifacio, and to buttress their claim,
Rizal is made out to be a mere decrepit liberal, a reactionary due to his class origin, a traitor to
the Revolution of 1896, a proponent of assimilation with, instead of independence from Spain,
etc. without the benefit of reading Rizal's text in context and intertexting it with other texts as
scholarship demands.
Mechanics
To meet the objectives of the seminar-workshop the following will be done:
1. A resource person presents a one-hour presentation.
2. This will be followed by a 30-minute open forum.
3. Participants are formed into Focus Group Discussion (FGD) units tasked with the
production of a teaching module based on a particular topic.
4. FGD outputs are presented in plenum and critiqued by a panel.
Tentative Program
Day 1: Dcember 27
Morning
7:00-8:00
8:00-9:00
9:00-9:30
FGDs
9:30-10:00
Registration of participants
Opening Ceremonies
Briefings on KAGURI, the seminar workshop and formation of
Kumustahan and snacks
10:00-11:00
Lecture 1: Republic Act 1425
Professor Melecio C. Fabros III, Depto. ng Filipino at Panitikan
ng Pilipinas Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura (KAL), UP-Diliman
Open Forum
FGDs
Lunch
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-1:00
Afternoon
1:00-2:00
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
3:00-4:00
4:00-5:00
5:00-5:30
5:30-6:00
Day 2: December 28
Morning
8:00-8:30
8:30-9:30
of the
9:30-10:00
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:30
11:30-12:00
12:00-1:00
Afternoon
1:00-2:00
Rizal's
2:00-2:30
2:30-3:00
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Lecture 2: The Text, Context, Intertext Principle
Professor Ma. Crisanta Nelmida-Flores, Ph.D., UPD Depto. ng
Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas,Kolehiyo ng Arte at Literatura
Open Forum
FGDs
Presentation of FGD outputs in plenum
(as snacks are distributed)
Lecture 3: A situationer on the theory and practice of Spanish
colonial rule in the 19th century Philippines
Professor Gil Gotiangco
Depto. ng Kasaysayan, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy,
UP-Diliman
Open Forum
FGDs
Presentation of FGD outputs in plenum
Lecture 4: A Situationer on the social and economic conditions
Philippines in the 19th Century
Professor Digna B. Apilado
Depto. ng Kasaysayan, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy,
UP-Diliman
Open Forum
FGDs
Presentation of FGD outputs in plenum (snacks are served)
Komustahan and Entertainment
Lunch
Lecture 5: The Ideological Spectrum in the 19th century and
chosen position in it
Professor Albina Peczon Fernandez, Ph.D.
Professorial Lecturer, Depto. ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas,
KAL, UP-Diliman and KAGURI Chair of Board of Trustees
Open Forum
FGDs (snacks are served)
3:00-3:30
3:30-4:30
4:30-5:00
5:00-5:30
Day 3: December 29
Morning
8:00-9:30
9:30-10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00
11:30-12:30
12:30-1:30
1:30-3:30
3:30-4:00
4:00-5:00
Day 4: December 30
Morning
6:00
Presentation of FGD outputs in plenum
Lecture 6: Rizal and nationalism
Professor Albina Peczon Fernandez, Ph.D.
Depto. ng Filipino at Panitikan ng Pilipinas,KAL-UP-Diliman
FGDs
Presentation of FGD outputs
Panel Discussion: Rizal’s cogency for our time as a human
being, scholar, activist, women’s rights advocate, and advocate
of press freedom
Panelists: Professor Segismundo Anoñuevo of De la Salle
University-Dasmarinas, Professor Aurora R. Lim, Ph.D. of the
Ateneo de Manila University, Professor Ramon Guillermo, Ph.D. of
UP-Diliman, and Professor Victoria N. Apuan, Ph.D. of Miriam
College.
Open Forum
FGDs
Presentation of FGD outputs in plenum (snacks are served)
Presentation in plenum of selected syllabi from participants
submitted for critiquing before a panel
Lunch
Presentation in plenum of selected teaching methodologies from
participants submitted for critiquing by a panel
Orientation on KAGURI
Closing Ceremonies
Assembly at the Luneta Park near the Rizal monument
Dress code: Black skirt and white blouse for women and black
pants and white polo shirts for males
Registration Fees
Registration fee per participant is four thousand pesos (P4,000.00), inclusive of a seminarworkshop kit, lunch and two snacks per day, certificate of attendance, membership to KAGURI,
and participation in the KAGURI-sponsored activity at the Rizal Day Celebration on December
30, 2013 at the Luneta Park. A discount of one thousand pesos (P1,000.00) will be given to those
who pay on or before before December 10, 2013.