I will send the attachment later, Yahoo is having trouble sending it.
JFLVN
Monday, December 6, 2010
Transect Walk and Library Time
SW 121 Library Work Instructions.
A. Based on your first essay and Chapter 9 of HBSE by Schriver, please provide the following:
1. the classical definition a community
2. modern and emerging definitions of the community
3. different concepts of the community
4. Elements to be observed in conducting a community study
5. Theories that you can use in analyzing the community
If you finish today, December 7, 2010, please leave your output in my pigeon hole. Of course, if your answers are found satisfactory, you will be given extra credit.
B. Using the attached PDF file, try to apply the transect walk technique of observation in the communities where you live. Draw a map of you community highlighting the structures you identified during the transect walk and important elements for observation. Be creative in drawing your community map. Be sure that you drawing will be understood even by community folks. If you have access to other information, you may apply the other techniques found in the PDF file and include it as additional attachments to you community map. Target submission date: December 14, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
TENTATIVE COURSE FLOW SW 121
November 21, 2010
Dear SW 121 Students:
1. For our sharing on November 30, please be ready to submit and read your summary. Bring bond paper, masking tape and permanent markers. To facilitate faster discussion of the concepts, you will have to post the important concepts of your thinker on the board.
2. We will use you initial reading list to define the community and provide an initial structure of the community. Later, we will also discuss the various symbolic conception of the community. Since the book on Ross is with Kath, she is in charge to share with the class concepts found in the book, possibly provide some notes on the reading (Of course, with additional credit).
3. To synthesize our discussion, hopefully on the same day, please read the following:
a. Schriver, Joe,M. 1995. Human Behavior and the Social Environment. Mass.: Allyn and Bacon. Chapter 9: Pp. 447-491.
Concepts found in the book may need to be memorized and may be the content of our first examination (maybe the meeting before Christmas break)
4. For December 7 (or Devember 14, depending on the length of our sharing session), please read the following:
a. Landa Jocano, Felipe. (2001). Filipino Worldview: Ethnography of Local Knowledge. Manila:Punlad Research House, Inc.
b. Landa Jocano,Felipe.(1997). Filipino Value System: A Cultural Definition. Manila:Punlad Research House, Inc.
We will divide the class into four groups to present “creatively” in class the following dimensions of the Filipino World view and Values
a. Natural dimension – Group 1
b. Biological dimension – Group 1
c. Communal dimension – Group 2
d. Social dimension – Group 2
e. Normative dimension - Group 2
f. Dimension of the self – Group 3
g. Ethical dimension – Group 3
h. Moral dimension – Group 3
i. Aesthetic dimension - Group 4
j. Teleological dimension – Group 4
k. Ideological dimension – Group 4
| Group 1 | Group 2 | Group 3 | Group 4 |
| Don Lima JV Carrascal Kathleen Valdez Eunice Tan Karen Asuncion | Eva Daruca Ayrah Lorico Karleen Reodique Glacy Agustino Ma. Perpetua Sadio Manalang, Andrew Rex | Ia Guevarra Gilda Waniwan Jan Kim Co Mark Manalang Emgeelee Gonda | Camille Barlis Christopher Sun Linda Pracejus Aga Bedi Judilyn Ferrer
|
These groups are tentative and simply based on the sitting arrangement except for Ms. Asuncion and Ms. Sadio whom I assigned. If you want the groupings to be changed then text me or email me. I just do not know if we have internet access in Davao. That is also the reason I am sending you this email before we leave Tuesday morning.
5. For January, we will discuss indigenous or ethnic communities, their structure, culture and processes. Main text is as follows.
a. Landa Jocano, Felipe. (1998). Filipino Indigenous Ethnic Communities: Patterns, variations, and typologies. Manila: Punlad Research House, Inc.
6. For February, we will be practicing partipatory methods in studying a community. See main text below:
a. Participatory Methods in Community-based Coastal Resource Management. Published by IIRR,IDRC and CIDA. (HT 395,A8,W67,1997)
7. Actual community study will be conducted in February and March.
Our College faculty meeting will be on November 30, 2010 but I think it will be in the morning. Just in case it will be in the afternoon, please meet by groups, plan for your report and your initial community observation. I suggest that we choose a community within the UP area. If the facuolty meeting is in the morning then we meet in the afternoon and go on with our sharing of the concepts and definitions of a community.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
SW 122 OPTIONAL FINALS
OCTOBER 7, 2010
SW 122 OPTIONAL FINALS
1st Semester SY 2010-2011
This optional examination is being administered to service those students who think they are not performing well in class. If you think that your class standing is above average then there is no need to take the examination.
Please copy the examination questions and print it with your answers. Answers may be handwritten but must be on short bond paper only. Submission is on October 12, 2010, class time. You have the option to answer the test today, October 7, 2010, (most preferably in the CSWCD library or our original room assignment) and likewise, submit the accomplished test today. Please do not discuss with your classmates while answering the test. JVN
TEST PROPER
A. Given the situation of the Philippines for the first 100 days of President Aquino’s term, construct a PROBLEM TREE on the issue and problem of CORRUPTION. Provide at least three levels of causes and three levels of effect. Provide an analysis statement on the diagram you constructed.
B. Based on your problem tree, construct a FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS of Aquino’s Platform against corruption. Identify the facilitating and hindering factors. Again, provide a paragraph or two explaining your analysis.
C. Given your two diagrams, comment on the concept of “Culture of Corruption” among the Filipinos. Can you trace this from certain events in history?
D. [For the Japanese cross-registrants] How would you compare the situation of the Philippines with that of Japan with regards to corruption? How does the Japanese cope with the issue of corruption?
---/o/--
SW 122 OPTIONAL FINALS
1st Semester SY 2010-2011
This optional examination is being administered to service those students who think they are not performing well in class. If you think that your class standing is above average then there is no need to take the examination.
Please copy the examination questions and print it with your answers. Answers may be handwritten but must be on short bond paper only. Submission is on October 12, 2010, class time. You have the option to answer the test today, October 7, 2010, (most preferably in the CSWCD library or our original room assignment) and likewise, submit the accomplished test today. Please do not discuss with your classmates while answering the test. JVN
TEST PROPER
A. Given the situation of the Philippines for the first 100 days of President Aquino’s term, construct a PROBLEM TREE on the issue and problem of CORRUPTION. Provide at least three levels of causes and three levels of effect. Provide an analysis statement on the diagram you constructed.
B. Based on your problem tree, construct a FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS of Aquino’s Platform against corruption. Identify the facilitating and hindering factors. Again, provide a paragraph or two explaining your analysis.
C. Given your two diagrams, comment on the concept of “Culture of Corruption” among the Filipinos. Can you trace this from certain events in history?
D. [For the Japanese cross-registrants] How would you compare the situation of the Philippines with that of Japan with regards to corruption? How does the Japanese cope with the issue of corruption?
---/o/--
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Draft Statement: (Not Yet Official) Save Lives: Increase Spending for Reproductive Health Care Including Family Planning
Save Lives: Increase Spending for Reproductive Health Care Including Family Planning
A joint statement of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) and the UP Center for Women's Studies (UPCWS)
Every day 11 Filipina women die from pregnancy and birth complications. . Every year 400,000 Filipinas suffer some form of illness or disability because of giving birth.
The majority of those who die or become ill from childbirth come from poor communities and families who can least afford to lose a mother or a sister or a wife. The health care burden to poor and middle income families of morbidities related to childbirth , can also be devastating.
And yet, we have the capacity to avoid most of the deaths and half of the morbidity related to childbirth. Health experts agree that delivery with a properly trained birth attendant, access to obstetric and new born care , and access to family planning services are effective and doable measures that will ensure better health outcomes for pregnant women and their families.
Of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the Philippines is likely to fail in meeting the goal of reducing maternal mortality rates by 2015. The reason is clear, the Arroyo administration has consistently neglected the services women need. This, despite compelling evidence that major sectors of our society (health, academic, business, labor) and the majority of our people accept the need for contraceptive services.
Today, we reiterate our call, echoed in the promises of the Philippine government and the policy pronouncements of President Benigno Aquino III, to ensure adequate funding for contraceptive supplies as a first step towards ensuring access to family planning services to all women.
Today, we reiterate that access to contraceptives within the framework of informed and free choice is a moral imperative guaranteed by international human rights standards and the Philippine Constitution as well as sentiments of the common citizenry.
With political will, we can yet achieve the health related MDGs, including the MDG on the goal of significantly reducing maternal mortality by 2015. Achieving this will definitely redound the attainment of other related MDGs on gender equaliy, women's empowerment and poverty reduction.
Beyond the political debates, the scientific data, international and local laws, the reality upon which an enlightened and moral policy on family planning must be based is that is saves the lives of women and their children.
September 30, 2010
Contact Persons:
Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, MD, PhD
Director
UPCWS
Amaryllis T. Torres
Dean CSWCD
A joint statement of the University of the Philippines College of Social Work and Community Development (CSWCD) and the UP Center for Women's Studies (UPCWS)
Every day 11 Filipina women die from pregnancy and birth complications. . Every year 400,000 Filipinas suffer some form of illness or disability because of giving birth.
The majority of those who die or become ill from childbirth come from poor communities and families who can least afford to lose a mother or a sister or a wife. The health care burden to poor and middle income families of morbidities related to childbirth , can also be devastating.
And yet, we have the capacity to avoid most of the deaths and half of the morbidity related to childbirth. Health experts agree that delivery with a properly trained birth attendant, access to obstetric and new born care , and access to family planning services are effective and doable measures that will ensure better health outcomes for pregnant women and their families.
Of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) the Philippines is likely to fail in meeting the goal of reducing maternal mortality rates by 2015. The reason is clear, the Arroyo administration has consistently neglected the services women need. This, despite compelling evidence that major sectors of our society (health, academic, business, labor) and the majority of our people accept the need for contraceptive services.
Today, we reiterate our call, echoed in the promises of the Philippine government and the policy pronouncements of President Benigno Aquino III, to ensure adequate funding for contraceptive supplies as a first step towards ensuring access to family planning services to all women.
Today, we reiterate that access to contraceptives within the framework of informed and free choice is a moral imperative guaranteed by international human rights standards and the Philippine Constitution as well as sentiments of the common citizenry.
With political will, we can yet achieve the health related MDGs, including the MDG on the goal of significantly reducing maternal mortality by 2015. Achieving this will definitely redound the attainment of other related MDGs on gender equaliy, women's empowerment and poverty reduction.
Beyond the political debates, the scientific data, international and local laws, the reality upon which an enlightened and moral policy on family planning must be based is that is saves the lives of women and their children.
September 30, 2010
Contact Persons:
Sylvia Estrada-Claudio, MD, PhD
Director
UPCWS
Amaryllis T. Torres
Dean CSWCD
Monday, September 27, 2010
INformal Settlers Seeking Relocation (From ABS-CBN News)
NHA: More informal settlers want relocation
MANILA, Philippines – More informal settlers in Metro Manila are availing of voluntary relocation, the National Housing Authority (NHA) said on Monday.
Around 67 families a day are now filing applications to be relocated to government housing projects, NHA community relations chief Socorro Salamat said.
She said that before the demolition of shanties in North Triangle, Quezon City, the NHA had been receiving only 50 applications a day.
Salamat said some families who had been considering relocation are now having second thoughts because the demolition project was suspended.
She praised the government’s relocation project and allayed fears raised by informal settlers.
Senate Edgardo Angara, meanwhile, said the upper house will look at the possibility of realigning around P6 billion in government funds for housing projects.
The amount is currently earmarked for various projects under the Department of Interior and Local Government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Undersecretary Nestor Borromeo said the agency’s allotted budget is not enough to meet the public’s need.
He said the HUDCC only received P5.6 billion from the P11 billion budget that the agency asked for.
"What will be greatly affected is the program of the National Housing Authority," Borromeo said.
He added that lack of funds will prevent the NHA from relocating informal settlers and families living in danger zones.
He said the HUDCC may also fail from reaching its target of building 350,000 new homes. – Atom Araullo and Ryan Chua, ABS-CBN News
MANILA, Philippines – More informal settlers in Metro Manila are availing of voluntary relocation, the National Housing Authority (NHA) said on Monday.
Around 67 families a day are now filing applications to be relocated to government housing projects, NHA community relations chief Socorro Salamat said.
She said that before the demolition of shanties in North Triangle, Quezon City, the NHA had been receiving only 50 applications a day.
Salamat said some families who had been considering relocation are now having second thoughts because the demolition project was suspended.
She praised the government’s relocation project and allayed fears raised by informal settlers.
Senate Edgardo Angara, meanwhile, said the upper house will look at the possibility of realigning around P6 billion in government funds for housing projects.
The amount is currently earmarked for various projects under the Department of Interior and Local Government and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Council (HUDCC) Undersecretary Nestor Borromeo said the agency’s allotted budget is not enough to meet the public’s need.
He said the HUDCC only received P5.6 billion from the P11 billion budget that the agency asked for.
"What will be greatly affected is the program of the National Housing Authority," Borromeo said.
He added that lack of funds will prevent the NHA from relocating informal settlers and families living in danger zones.
He said the HUDCC may also fail from reaching its target of building 350,000 new homes. – Atom Araullo and Ryan Chua, ABS-CBN News
Friday, September 24, 2010
North Triangle Demolition
Quick facts about the North Triangle project and demolition of Sept. 23
Ayala Land signed an agreement with the National Housing Authority to develop, at a cost of P22 billion, 29 hectares of the 256-hectare of the North Triangle area that is to be developed as the QC Central Business District, presumably to be pattermed after Ayala Business District in Makati..
But there are 6,000 families in the area. The residents have already held 4 dialogues with the NHA since they received the 30-day notice of demolition on May 2010 where they offered suggestions to the authorities. However NHA officials insist that they should resettle in Montalban, Rizal, which is more than 20 kilometers north..
The NHA offered the residents P1,000, 5 kilos of rice, 2 packs of instant noodles and 2 canned sardines if they would agree to be relocated to Montalban..
They are also being offered a 20-square meter house at the relocation site, worth supposedly P250,000 which are not free. On the second year, those who would be relocated would have to pay P200 monthly and P600 monthly from fifth year onwards.
The biggest problem of the 6,000 families is that they earn their livelihood near the area , and Montalban is more than 20 kilometers away. Aside from that, they complain that the facilities like water and power are not yet in place, and the area is prone to flooding.
Residents said they are not fighting to own the land but to get what is due and fair to them, which includes an on-site or in-city relocation.
Judge Maria Padilla of RTC 225 ordered a stop to the demolition mid afternoon yesterday, and today Aquino III stopped the demolition for the moment.
For more facts and figures, go this page:
http://www.arkibongbayan.org/2010/2010-09Sept24-NTriangle/demolition.htm
Ayala Land signed an agreement with the National Housing Authority to develop, at a cost of P22 billion, 29 hectares of the 256-hectare of the North Triangle area that is to be developed as the QC Central Business District, presumably to be pattermed after Ayala Business District in Makati..
But there are 6,000 families in the area. The residents have already held 4 dialogues with the NHA since they received the 30-day notice of demolition on May 2010 where they offered suggestions to the authorities. However NHA officials insist that they should resettle in Montalban, Rizal, which is more than 20 kilometers north..
The NHA offered the residents P1,000, 5 kilos of rice, 2 packs of instant noodles and 2 canned sardines if they would agree to be relocated to Montalban..
They are also being offered a 20-square meter house at the relocation site, worth supposedly P250,000 which are not free. On the second year, those who would be relocated would have to pay P200 monthly and P600 monthly from fifth year onwards.
The biggest problem of the 6,000 families is that they earn their livelihood near the area , and Montalban is more than 20 kilometers away. Aside from that, they complain that the facilities like water and power are not yet in place, and the area is prone to flooding.
Residents said they are not fighting to own the land but to get what is due and fair to them, which includes an on-site or in-city relocation.
Judge Maria Padilla of RTC 225 ordered a stop to the demolition mid afternoon yesterday, and today Aquino III stopped the demolition for the moment.
For more facts and figures, go this page:
http://www.arkibongbayan.org/2010/2010-09Sept24-NTriangle/demolition.htm
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