CARTOONS AND CONQUEST SOUNDS OF THE NEW HOPE INDIGENIZING THE CURRICULUM THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN TASTE ENVIROMENTAL SERVICE LEARNING INITIATIVE THE RELEVANCE OF KAPWA IN THE WANING DAYS OF EMPIRE ACTIVISM IS NOT A CRIME! __________________________________ __________________________________ (Paper presentation, Q&A panel) This study examines the implementation of an art-integrated 11th grade history curriculum about the Philippine-American War to demonstrate student acquisition of multiple historical perspectives using their authentic voice. Two teachers from two school districts implemented the curriculum designed by the researcher in collaboration with the WAR & DISSENT: The U.S. in the Philippines (1898-1915) exhibit featured at The Presidio in San Francisco. In order to make this program successful and ensure that the curriculum is implemented in the most effective way; process evaluation was performed to assess the implementation process of the curriculum. Four themes were explored within the evaluation to review each teacher’s implementation to demonstrate student acquisition of multiple historical perspectives when given the opportunity to express their learning artistically. Feedback from each teacher highlights best practices, positive and negative comments, and areas of improvement for the lesson. Commonalities and contrasts are cited with examples from the qualitative data: class observations and interviews. Overall, both teachers agreed that by pairing alternative assessments with interdisciplinary multicultural education, educators would be more willing to design and practice art-integrated multicultural learning in the field of history, thus improving the way they teach history. Bio: Aimee M. Espiritu was a participant of the Philippines Fulbright-Hays Study Abroad Program the summer of 2008. Her Master’s Thesis in Education involved finding ways that art education can be integrated into history curriculum at the secondary level to provide a means of exploring multiple historical perspectives, specifically during the Philippine-American War. By evaluating the way we teach and continue to teach art-integrated history curriculum (specifically this unit), it is her hope that students will have the ability to think critically to examine the reasons and results as to how America became the world power it is today. __________________________________ __________________________________ (Film presentation and panel discussion) Eric Tandoc and Kiwi Growing up around Los Angeles neighborhood gangs during the ’90s, a young Filipino-American named Kiwi became an MC and community organizer, using hip-hop to raise the consciousness of youth and get them involved in serving their communities and advancing the movement for national liberation and genuine democracy in the Philippines. The film takes a journey across the world as Kiwi facilitates hip-hop workshops with youth from the Filipino immigrant community of San Francisco’s Excelsior District to the urban shanty towns of Metro Manila, where he works with rappers from young street gangs. Through sharing life experiences, beats, and rhymes, they make connections across oceans that inspire the next generation to continue the ongoing struggle for freedom. Guided discussion and Q&A will follow the film. Bio: Eric Tandoc is native of Westside Long Beach with his roots in the Philippines. He is a DJ, filmmaker, educator, and member of Habi Arts in Los Angeles. As an undergraduate at UCLA, he took the Center for EthnoCommunications course with Professor Robert Nakamura and was exposed to creating documentary films with the purpose of serving and giving a voice to underrepresented communities. For his thesis project, documented the growth of hip-hop as a form of expression in various communities of the Philippines. The end product was the film, “Sounds of the New Hope.” Bio: For nearly a decade, Kiwi (Jack DeJesus) has been holding it down in the independent hip hop scene, rocking shows from California to New York to the Philippines. Formerly of renowned Filipino rap group Native Guns, Kiwi is currently working on an upcoming full-length album, and is the lead subject for the documentary film “Sounds of the New Hope.” When not on stage or in the studio, Kiwi is a community organizer in San Francisco’s South of Market district, as well as Deputy Secretary General of BAYAN-USA, a national alliance of groups organizing for the rights and welfare of Filipinos both in the Philippines and the U.S. __________________________________ __________________________________ (Workshop) Holly Calica, Luanda Wesley, and Titania Bucholdt This session is a call for action among educators to begin to collaborate on “Indigenizing the Curriculum.” The key issues educators must address in the classroom today are strategies that provide students the tools for continued sustainability in our world. With the establishment of the global economy, traditional peoples around the world have borne the brunt of destruction to their way of life and their land, yet their traditional ways hold the key to sustainability. This workshop highlights the works of Cultural Bearers of the Indigenous Peoples of the Philippines, and Pilipino Academia, who shared their knowledge at the “KAPWA-2 CONFERENCE: The Relevance of Indigenous Knowledge in the Age of Globalization,” held at UP Visayas, Iloilo campus in 2008. Their work and knowledge in Sikolohiyang Pilipino, formulated by the late UP scholar Virgilio Enriquez, decolonization, community building, and cultural work can provide a sound basis for educators working with Pilipino students in the diaspora. Participants will have the opportunity to reflect, share their ideas with each other, and establish a collaborative working relationship to develop indigenized curriculum. Bio: Holly Calica is a third generation Pilipina American, who teaches art to children in San Francisco. In addition to teaching with the San Francisco Unified School District for over 25 years, she is a Cultural Worker who studies music, dance and art across cultures. She has performed with Afro-Brazilian groups, Mara Reggae and Fogo Na Roupa, as well Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble, led by Master Danongan Kalanduyan. In addition to exhibiting her painting and prints, she has collaborated on installations addressing cultural revival. While primarily a contemporary artist, her research on the indigenous arts and culture of the Philippines has been central to her development as an educator, an artist, and a human being interested in maintaining traditions that that sustain and respect the earth. Bio: Luanda Wesley is a multicultural teacher for 20 years in elementary education, with experience in Alameda, San Francisco and Dublin, Georgia. A 2008 Fulbright-Hays Scholar to the Philippines, she is experienced in designing and constructing Afro-Brazilian regalia, along with beadwork and painting. She has danced with Fogo Na Roupa in Carnaval, and has traveled to Salvador, Bahia in Brazil to study Afro-Brazilian dance. She currently studies Afro-Haitan dance. She also is a certified massage therapist. Her emphasis in education has been on the whole child’s being, not just the academic side. She concentrates on who they are as a whole person and the importance of seeing themselves reflected in the curriculum, which was one of impetus for her studying in the Philippines. Bio: Titania Buchholdt is an experienced student, teacher, traveler, and performer who has worked with the Kalinga of the northern Philippines and the Maguindanao of the southern Philippines. She is a senior member of the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble and the Glide Ensemble, both based in San Francisco. __________________________________ __________________________________ (Panel + Workshop) Irene Faye Duller and Raj deSai “THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN TASTE: The New Culinary Pedagogy? Food as historical text, agency, and tool for social change”- will present papers on collegiate lesson plan/curriculums that Irene Duller has used to teach students about colonization, globalization, generational issues. These lesson plans have also incorporated decolonizing and political agency when asking the students to then “make up a dish that represents both homeland/nation state and “american”. It becomes a process of inward discovery, family roots, migration story, and new identities in progress. Raj deSai will present a paper on the use of Food as a tool among community and in the classroom to celebrate and unify. He will also explore Pilipino Americana or “Fusion” as critical artistry in the ways it is made and shared in a contemporary setting; How updating “war-torn” recipes to be healthier for the body and the spirit. Filipino food as we know it, is also a food of resistance. We want to also present a writing workshop around food that any educator can use to engage their students in the memory of how “home tastes like” & possibly a “quick fire challenge” (as mimicked from America’s top chef) among our audience on how to recreate an old time dish. Bio: A contemporary/ popular/street cultural art cognoscente, performer, curator and educator, I am interested in the new modes in teaching and dialogue when it comes to the post/de-colonial identity in transit. Food is something we all geek about, keep at the center of our gatherings, use to celebrate and comfort our communities. Why not bring it into the classroom as the main ingredient to our research, reclamation and regaining of being Pilipino (in America / in diaspora)? __________________________________ __________________________________ (Workshop) Jay Jasper Pugao and Kristia Castrillo Our session will introduce participants to the ESLI program and show that environmental justice is social justice. We will also challenge participants to analyze past and present civil movements and issues of communities of color and how they are impacted by issue of environmental inequality and racism. Our presentation will address all teachers and youth workers who seek to bring a critical lens to reflecting on our environment, natural and human-made. We seek to reintroduce the connection between Environmental Justice and Social Justice. Bio: The Environmental Service Learning Initiative (ESLI) heralds a new partnership between city government, the school district and community-based organizations and aims to bring critical and holistic environmental education into SF public high school classrooms through a youth empowered service learning model. It is funded by the Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF) and is a collaboration of the Mayor’s Office of Education, SFUSD, Community Educational Services and Global Exchange. Kristia Castrillo & Jay Jasper Pugao are members of the Environmental Service Learning Initiative. Kristia is an ESLI Educator at Galileo High School, while Jay is an ESLI Coordinatory at Mission High School. __________________________________ __________________________________ (Keynote) Leny Strobel KAPWA and other related concepts within the Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices (IKSP) of Filipino culture-bearers and babaylans offer a framework for re-envisioning educational values that can guide educational leaders, teachers, community and cultural advocates when they reflect about what we should be educating for in the 21st century. The zeitgeist of the time suggests the values of modernity (of capitalism and enlightenment values) is failing us. KAPWA and IKSP can (or should) contribute to the growing movement in the US where diverse coalitions are engaged in imagining “another world is possible.” This movement also draws from the wisdom of indigenous traditions of this continent as well as from indigenous cultures and peoples around the world that are now also in the diaspora and/or made accessible through technology. Bio: Project Director, Fulbright Hays Study Tour of the Philippines, 2006 and 2008. Author of Coming Full Circle: The Process of Decolonization Among Post-1965 Filipino Americans, A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan and a forthcoming book on the Filipino Babaylan tradition will be published by Ateneo de Davao University Research and Publication Office in late 2010. __________________________________ __________________________________ (Workshop) Under Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s (GMA’s) administration, hundreds of extrajudicial killings, disappearances, political imprisonment and other forms of human right abuses have been committed against activists, journalists, human rights lawyers, church leaders, union leaders, indigenous people, peasant leaders and others. This workshop will uncover the political repression happening in the Philippines and ways we can support justice and uphold human rights. Bio: San Francisco-Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SF-CHRP) educates, activates, and organizes Bay Area communities to promote human rights of the Filipino people as well as supports the human rights struggles of all people. SF-CHRP believes the struggle for the protection and advancement of human rights in the Philippines and Filipino people throughout the world is a struggle that is connected to the overall Philippine people’s movement for national sovereignty and genuine democracy.
GLOBAL
(Paper and Roundtable)
Aimee Espiritu
(Film and Panel)
Eric Tandoc and Kiwi
(Workshop)
Holly Calica, Luanda Wesley, and Titania Bucholdt
(Paper and Roundtable)
Irene Faye Duller and Raj DeSai
(Workshop)
Jay Jasper Pugao and Kristia Castrillo
(Keynote)
Leny Strobel
(Workshop)
San Francisco-Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SF-CHRP)Cartoons and Conquest: The Implementation of an Art-integrated History Curriculum to Demonstrate Student Acquisition of Multiple Historical Perspectives on the Philippine-American War
Aimee EspirituSounds of the New Hope – Hip Hop as a Tool for Social Change
Indigenizing the Curriculum: A Work In Progress
THE DIFFERENCE YOU CAN TASTE: The New Culinary Pedagogy? Food as historical text, agency, and tool for social change
Environmental Service Learning Initiative
The Relevance of Kapwa in the Waning Days of Empire: A Vision for Educators
Activism is not a crime! Uncovering Human Rights Abuses in the Philippines
San Francisco-Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines (SF-CHRP) members: Angelica Cabande, Rupert Estanislao, Ryan Leano, TJ Basa
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