The Xavier Center for Culture and the Arts (XCCA) and the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) held “YAMUG 6: Culture Based Education Symposium” on Oct 19 at the Little Theater.  

This year’s Yamug focused on Philippine Culture and the Arts as bases for effective and quality education. Prof Ricamela Palis (Letran) imparted on “Philippine Culture and the Arts as an Effective Tool for Teaching and Learning.” She pointed out that cultural education is more than teaching arts, it is an approach that integrates the arts across the curriculum, it acknowledges local cultural knowledge, it gives voice to the unarticulated ways of understanding the world and it teaches the historical past in order to understand the present.

Dr Jovy M Peregrino (UP Diliman) gave a fun and interactive talk on the need for Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education as a mode of instruction, while Dr Christine Godinez-Ortega (MSU-IIT) shed light on how Philippine literature was developed through the years, allowing the participants to widen their awareness on such heritage.

Participants came from different public and private schools in the City, namely Xavier University Grade School, MOGCHS, , Cagayan de Oro College –School of Education, San Simon Elementary School, Km 5 Elementary School, Lapasan National High School, Oro Christian Grace School, Bulua National High School, PN Roa National High School, Kauswagan NationaL High School, Stella Maris College of Caraga).

Yamug 6 is part of the Cultural Education Program of XCCA.

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