Nonfiction has its rising demand among the intellectuals for its research based writings. Amitav Ghosh’s nonfiction is research based and has the flow of fiction. His writings is historical and have journalistic touch. Sometimes anthropology has its forcible entry in some of his fiction and nonfiction. Almost all his none fictional writings are travelogues and subjective in nature.
No curriculum exists in isolation, i.e. each curriculum is designed to be an input to another output. The interplay of curricula in the trifocal system of education in the Philippines only becomes ideal when alignment is checked at crucial checkpoints including the most recent checkpoint – the implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Curriculum. One field that changed is Science Education. This study, an excerpt, aimed to innovate on the Senior HS Biology curricula by integrating Industrial Revolution 4.0 Skills to help prepare them to college course, especially in Fishery Education. Using mixed-method approaches, the study found evidence that Fishery Education students consider the Senior HS Biology curricula topics as ‘Useful’ in their Program courses and are mostly under Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Genetics, Evolution and Biodiversity, and that, 2 years after their K to 12 graduation, they consider themselves to still ‘have knowledge’ on these Biology topics. Further, content analysis assessment of experts showed that, aside from these topics, Cytology and Cytogenetics and a little of Taxonomy have been considered as preparatory for advanced higher Fishery Education. Furthermore, focus group discussion revealed that IR 4.0 skills could be integrated along the Senior HS Biology topics, and results reported that ‘cognitive flexibility’ as a skill is the most considered for topical integration. Recommendations include generating a framework to trace which Senior HS Biology topics are most and least needed in the Fishery Education checklist by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education to conduct deeper curriculum alignment assessment.
This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of the School on-the-Air (SOA) as an extension modality of the Agricultural Training Institute in Region I. The study was limited to the AEWs and farmers’ beneficiaries in Region 1 who graduated through the SOA of the Agricultural Training Institute-Regional Training Center I (ATI-RTC I). There were two sets of questionnaire distributed as a research instrument for this study, for SOA Graduates and SOA Coordinators and both were translated into Filipino having 5 parts. The characteristics of SOA by resources such as manpower; farmcaster (announcer) and resource persons was rated excellent, money; fund allocation as excellent, materials; topics discussed excellent; and, machines; radio station was rated very good, overall rating is excellent. On the extent of Knowledge, Skills and Attitude acquired, there was a significant difference in the overall extent of acquisition of learning across commodities was observed. The SOA in the region in all commodities have positive effect to the farmers’ knowledge, skills and attitude. It means further that when the SOA satisfied the farmers in terms of manpower, money, materials and machines used, the learners will likely to change its knowledge, skills and attitude According to the respondents, SOA gave them the opportunity to learn new technology, gets additional farming and assisted farmers in implementing their farm decisions. The numbers of years of farming of the SOA graduates was found to be significant and positively correlated with the level of adoption of technology. Conferring to the SOA Graduates’ answers, commodity vary in terms of the stage they’ve been using the technology. While others are in the adoption stage, some are also found still on the trial stage.
The study aimed to determine the status of the schools with Developing SBM Level of Practice in terms of the thematic areas and principles and elicit perceptions from the School Heads and SBM Coordinators on factors affecting their SBM Level of Practice. This study utilized qualitative research through the analysis of submitted SBM documents focused on the SBM themes and principles and written interview as well as focus group discussion to the School Heads and SBM coordinators of 17 Schools in the Division of Antipolo City identified with Developing SBM Level of Practice regarding the facilitating and hindering factors. This study focused only on the 17 schools identified with Developing SBM Level of Practice from SY 2013-2015. Also, the study was limited only on reports gathered from SY 2013-2015 since there were no NAT results yet available from SY 2016 up to present. Based on the findings of this study, the following conclusions were drawn: (1) Majority of the developing schools were categorized as “Below Marginal” in terms Access while majority were categorized as “Marginal” in terms of Efficiency and Quality, (2) All of the 17 developing schools were categorized as “Good” in terms the 4 SBM principles, (3) Most hindering factor that affected the SBM level of practice is “Organizing and Filing of Artifacts” and (4) Most facilitating factor that helped to improve is “Support and Communication to the Stakeholders”. Therefore, based on the conclusions of this study, the following are hereby recommended: (1) The school should include programs and projects in E-SIP that answers school performance indicator, (2) The school should allow stakeholders to initiate programs and projects related to different SBM Principles, (3) The school should increase the teachers’ awareness on the importance of SBM and needed artifacts for the improvement of their SBM level of practice, (4) The school should sustain the best practices that facilitate improvement in their SBM level of practice and (5) A parallel study can be done by other schools division to determine the factors that affects the SBM level of practice in their respective divisions.
