CEBU – Teaching subjects using culture and the arts is now being integrated in the curriculum of the Department of Education and the Commission for Higher Education for students to better understand, appreciate and value the country’s heritage.
Commissioner Orlando Magno, of the National Commission for the Culture and the Arts (NCAA), said its is part of an aggressive campaign to promote culture and the arts and instill a strong sense of nationhood and pride among students as Filipinos.
“There is a need to promote, develop and preserve our country’s culture and the arts and one way of doing that is publicize this inside the classrooms,” Magno said.
He said for five years now, the NCCA has been giving free scholarships to public school teachers on how to effectively teach subjects using culture and the arts. “Our conduit schools in Central Visayas are Holy Name University in Bohol and the Cebu Normal University in Cebu,” Magno said.
Magno said teaching subjects using the vernacular for better understanding is also one way of valuing and preserving the local culture unique to that certain area. (Fayette Riñen)
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