MGA KONTEMPORARYONG ISYU

MGA KONTEMPORARYONG ISYUCivic Education CurriculumCourse GoalMalalim na pag-unawa gamit ang(a) mga kasanayan sa pagsisiyasat(b) pagsusuri ng datos at ibat ibang sanggunian(c) pananaliksik(d) mapanuring pag-iisip(e) mabisang komunikasyon(f) pagiging makatarungan(g) matalinong pagpapasya

Course MethodThe teacher does not supply the student with information. Rather, he guides the student in research and in critical thinking.Identical to Project CitizenCivic Education Goals The student is able to evaluate issues and solutions to them that have been proposedCivic Education Goals Citizenship is not being a member of a society from which you try to squeeze out everything you can for you and your family, but rather working with everyone to pursue the common good. The good citizen pursues the truth in his investigation of issues.He appreciates the power of action to change the future.He is concerned about justice and prudence in the resolution of issues. He understands solidarity and subsidiarity correctly.Civic Education ContentCriteria for evaluating issuesThe common goodTruthCriteria for evaluating proposed solutionsActionJusticePrudenceSolidaritySubsidiarityCommon GoodThe sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily. The common good concerns the life of all. It calls for prudence from each, and even more from those who exercise the office of authority. The common good is always oriented towards the progress of persons.Three Essential Elements of the Common GoodThe common good presupposes respect for the person as such.The common good requires the social well-being and development of the group itself. The common good requires peace, that is, the stability and security of a just order. The Political Community or StateIt is the role of the state to defend and promote the common good of civil society, its citizens, and intermediate bodies. Two Truths to Pursuethe truth about whats happening facts the truth about the rightness of ideas regarding action, ethicsregarding the human being and society, philosophical anthropology The Pursuit of TruthWho or what is the source?What are the reasons given?Look at all sides of the questionThese issues are typically multi-disciplinary (history, science, law, politics, economics, sociology, ethics and morals)We cannot limit ourselves to one discipline aloneEthics and morals rule: the end does not justify the meansThe all-surpassing importance of truthControversial Items in the DepEd CurriculumB9 Learning Competency: Natataya ang epekto ng Climate Change sa kapaligiran, lipunan, at kabuhayan ng tao sa bansa at sa daigdigOn Climate ChangeWe are not sure whether it can be blamed on human beingsWe are not sure whether there is anything unusual about current climate changeIntroduce students to Bjorn Lomborg and others like himControversial Items in the DepEd CurriculumC15 Learning Competency: Nasusuri ang sanhi at epekto ng political dynasties sa pagpapanatili ng malinis at matatag na pamahalaanOn Political DynastiesShould someone competent be disqualified from running for office merely because he or she is related to a high government official? Controversial Items in the DepEd CurriculumIka-3 markahan, B Mga Isyu na may Kaugnayan sa Kasarian (Gender) Gender & SexualityReproductive Health LawSame-sex MarriageOn Choice of Sex, Same-sex Marriage, and the Reproductive Health LawDeeper Issueswhat constitutes a right whether one can actually choose ones sex the rightness of choosing a sexuality contrary to that of ones sex the nature of marriage the role of government in the intimate lives of citizens forcing people to act against their conscienceDeeper IssuesThe rightness of subtly or overtly making students accept ideas against their conscienceIncluding controversial curriculum content is fine; but making something controversial look uncontroversial is notCan the teacher be forced to teach material against his or her conscience?What can the teacher do if the contemporary issues include material against his or her conscience?Silence?Opposition?

Civic Education ContentActionJusticePrudenceSolidarity SubsidiarityActionACTION IS THE CONSCIOUS, FREE, AND EFFICACIOUS INTERVENTION IN A TEMPORAL PROCESS

Process: a series of events of a temporal characterIntervention: to modify a series

NEW, DISTINCT EVENTS TAKE PLACE THAT WOULD NEVER EXIST IF THE HUMAN BEING DID NOT INTERVENE WITH HIS ACTIONAction on Human BeingsDifference with action on things

Action on human beings is not despotic, but rather political. It is not immediately transforming, but a directive acting; it does not transform the passive, but forms active agentsone strives to improve the motivation and end of the actions of othersIt uses language and entails reciprocityThe Elements of ActionIntentionMotivationThe action itself KnowledgeCommutative JusticeRegulates exchanges between persons and between institutions in accordance with a strict respect for their rights. Commutative justice obliges strictly; it requires safeguarding property rights, paying debts, and fulfilling obligations freely contracted. Without commutative justice, no other form of justice is possible. Legal JusticeConcerns what the citizen owes in fairness to the communityDistributive JusticeRegulates what the community owes its citizens in proportion to their contributions and needs. Social JusticeThe conditions that allow associations or individuals to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation. Social justice is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority. Social justice can be obtained only in respecting the transcendent dignity of man.PrudencePrudence disposes the practical reason to discern, in every circumstance, our true good and to choose the right means for achieving it. The Principle of SolidarityFriendship or social charityThe Principle of SolidarityManifested by the distribution of goods and remuneration for work. Presupposes the effort for a more just social order where tensions are better able to be reduced and conflicts more readily settled by negotiationThe Principle of SolidaritySocio-economic problems can be resolved only with the help of all the forms of solidarity: solidarity of the poor among themselves, between rich and poor, of workers among themselves, between employers and employees in a business, solidarity among nations and peoplesThe Principle of SubsidiarityA community of a higher order should not interfere in the internal life of a community of a lower order, depriving the latter of its functions, but rather should support it in case of need and help to co-ordinate its activity with the activities of the rest of society, always with a view to the common good.Civic Education MethodologyLectureAnalysisEvaluation

SOCRATIC QUESTIONING

Civic Education MethodologyThe teacher guides the students, dialogues with them, argues, plays devils advocate, proposes objections, encourages, refines, challenges the students to be more precise and exact.

Civic Education EvaluationContinuousGroup portfolios