Cielito & Pilar HabitoCahbriba Alternative School Foundation

Los Baños, Laguna

Cielito & Pilar HabitoCahbriba Alternative School Foundation

Los Baños, Laguna

OverviewOverview

•What’s wrong with Philippine education?

•Cahbriba’s Life Learning System– Life Learning System– The Learning Community– Towards Socially Responsible

Enterprise

•What’s wrong with Philippine education?

•Cahbriba’s Life Learning System– Life Learning System– The Learning Community– Towards Socially Responsible

Enterprise

What’s wrong with Philippine education?

What’s wrong with Philippine education?

Our education system has: Widened gaps in society

―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences

What’s wrong with Philippine education?

Our education system has: Widened gaps in society

―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences

Focused on employment rather than job creation

What’s wrong with Philippine education?

Our education system has: Widened gaps in society

―Skewed access to quality education―Biased for certain intelligences

Focused on employment rather than job creation

Preoccupied with knowledge and information, neglected wisdom

Widening gaps

• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)

Widening gaps

• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)

• Only the rich can afford the best schools

Widening gaps

• Private education generally superior (and cost society less!)

• Only the rich can afford the best schools• Budget per pupil dropped• Schools focus on verbal/linguistic and

logico/mathematical intelligences– Easiest for the rich to sharpen– Those strong in other intelligences are

marginalized in the school system

The Nine Intelligences

Musical/rhythmic Bodily/kinesthetic Visual/spatial Intrapersonal Interpersonal

Verbal/linguistic Logical/

mathematical Naturalist Existentialist

Employment vs. Entrepreneurship

Our schools tend to prepare students: to work for others, rather than to create

work for others high unemployment to earn incomes, rather than create

wealth low productivity

Employment vs. Entrepreneurship

Our schools tend to prepare students: to work for others, rather than to create

work for others high unemployment to earn incomes, rather than create

wealth low productivityTypical student’s aim: to work for a

multinational company or work overseas

Educating for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship values―can start from primary school

Educating for Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship values―can start from primary school

Entrepreneurship skills―secondary school up

Not just for management majors

Wisdom vs. Knowledge

• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age

Wisdom vs. Knowledge

• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age

• Knowledge need not be memorized

Wisdom vs. Knowledge

• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age

• Knowledge need not be memorized• What’s needed is wisdom: the ability

to use knowledge to solve problems (family, community, nation humanity)

Wisdom vs. Knowledge

• Knowledge and information are easily accessible in this Information Age

• Knowledge need not be memorized• What’s needed is wisdom: the ability

to use knowledge to solve problems (family, community, nation humanity)

• Wisdom does not come from science and math alone (also history, culture, humanities, philosophy, civics)

Learning Differently

The Life Learning System Life Learning System:

a dynamic learning social process centered on community life and living

Learning Community:Groups of people who share common

values and beliefs actively engage in community learning experiences

School, family & community engage in social, economic, political & cultural transformation

Life Learning System: How Does It Operate?

Content: Provide for the development of abilities that will lead learners to successful adaptation to a changing culture

Instruction: Operate according to the principles of effective teaching and learning (MI/LS)

Assessment: Process-folio is an assembly of steps and phases in the course of learners developing projects, products or performances.

Learning Community:The Framework

Institution

Cultural Numeracy/ Literacy

Environmental Numeracy/ Literacy

Technology Environment

People

Community ResourcesCommunity Resources

Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship

A values-driven innovation on the culture of thinking and interaction in education. This leads learners to serve as social, political, environmental & economic performers in the midst of cultural change.

Socially Responsible EntrepreneurshipHow Cahbriba Promotes It

Metaphors of Life ( 4 Fs) Family

(Social Performance)Kin

Forum(Political Performance)

Citizen

Fair(Cultural Performance)

Artist

Firm(Economic Performance)

Entrepreneur

Apprenticeship

Building the Nation’s Character

Concern for the common good, rather than self-interest

Love of country (Makabayan) Values education

―Taught by example (by teachers, by society’s leaders)

―Taught by community (immersion in real world problems & challenges)

Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development

Postscript:Poverty is Not Inevitable

• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not

• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)

• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not

• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)

Ateneo Center for Economic Research and Development

Postscript:Poverty is Not Inevitable

• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not

• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)

• No one is so poor as to have nothing to share; no one is so rich as to need nothing from another

• With enough caring & sharing… poverty need not be inevitable.

• Statistics tell us that one out of every four Filipino families is poor… but this also means 3 out of 4 are not

• We only need one out of every three non-poor Filipino families to “adopt” one poor family and help nurture them sustainably out of poverty (“teach them to fish”)

• No one is so poor as to have nothing to share; no one is so rich as to need nothing from another

• With enough caring & sharing… poverty need not be inevitable.