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Ang aklat ay tungkol sa halagahan at aral na halaw mula sa pamamaraan at kilos-kapayapaan ng kababaihang Talaandig. Mga salaysay ng mga Inay Malinandang, mga nanay na kumikilos para sa kapayapaan ang naging daan na nagbukas sa mundo, pananaw, at halagahan ng malawak na salitang kapayapaan ng Talaandig. Inilalahad sa aklat na ito ang mga resolusyon, kautusan, at batas mula sa United Nations at Kagawaran ng Edukasyon ng Pilipinas tungkol sa ugnayan ng kilos-kapayapaan ng kababaihan, paglalahad at pagsusuri ng isang halimbawang gabay sa pagtuturo ng Edukasyong Pangkapayapaan at pagtanaw sa kahulugan at nilalaman ng Edukasyong Pangkapayapaan sa bansa. Isinama ang mga aral at halagahang halaw mula sa prosesong kapayapaan ng mga Inay Malinandang ng Talaandig. Naglalaman rin ito ng balangkas para sa pagtuturo at pitong modyul sa pag-aaral ng edukasyong pangkapayapaan para sa pagsasanay ng mga gurong magtuturo ng edukasyong pangkapayapaang ng K-12 sa bansa.

Recent events have brought public attention to the continuing problem of gender-based dehumanization and violence against women in Philippine society. These include the documented sale of a t-shirt framing rape as a “snuggle with a struggle” in a large department store chain, the staging of a fashion show by the major retail brand featuring a male actor pulling a female model on an animal leash, and most recently, the violent death of a transgender woman from Olongapo City. In this resolution, we articulate the position of our national professional organization of Filipino psychologists, psychometricians, psychological researchers, and allied mental health professionals on the pressing problem of gender-based violence and its associated harms to mental health and well-being, especially for women.

Mainstream sociological theories of technology tend to use the society | technology distinction, which is an extension of the anthropocentric human | nonhuman distinction. This article goes beyond essentialist humanism in developing a conceptual outline for a systems theory of technology. The basic proposition of this article is that technology is a functional subsystem of modern society that observes the world of tools, techniques and applications using the code state-of-the-art | obsolete. Distinguishing an object as state-of-the-art indicates its currency and creates expectations of future obsolescence, which drives the system’s function of stimulating society’s inventive capacity. Taking a systems approach resolves the theoretically unproductive technology vs. society debate on causal primacy, and allows for discussions on sociological problems of technology to move forward with a fresh perspective. While the article uses Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory as its backbone, it breaks from Luhmann’s concept of technology being in the environment of society, and proposes instead that technology is, by itself, a subsystem of society.

The response of the bird community in the University of the Philippines Diliman Campus was evaluated before and after the university embarked on major infrastructure and landscape development in 2006-2008. Surveys using the Jokimäki walk were made monthly from 2004-2006 prior to development and from 2007-2010 after development in three 22-25 ha plots, i.e., 1) College of Science (CS), 2) Academic Oval (OV) and 3) Open Fields (OP), representing biophysical development gradient. Diversity indices before and after redevelopment were compared. Principal components analysis (PCA) and Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression were done to determine how the dominant species responded to change over time. The Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the Yellow vented bulbul Pycnonotus goiaiver experienced declines in all plots but most significantly in the CS plot which experienced the most infrastructure development. A MANOVA was used to determine if the declines in Passer and Pycnonotus populations had an effect on other species in the CS plot. MANOVA results suggest that the declines are significant with the increase in populations of the flycatcher Gerygone and the ground dove Geopelia suggesting ecological replacement of the once numerous species.

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This essay reflects on globalization as a phenomenon that connects and influences the world’s socio-cultural and political spheres, similar to how some academics explore the nature of the global. In particular, the essay interrogates how globalization is mediated in the theatre. The motivation in the inquiry is based on a presumption that theatre artists are also actively participating in defining what globalization means. At the same time, it comes from an assumption that theatre artists are also actively performing what it means to be global. Many artists engage with the global by either collaborating with artists of different nationalities or using globalization as a central theme in their theatre works. In reflecting on globalization, the essay analyzes Chris Martinez’s monodrama Welcome to IntelStar, staged at the Studio Theatre of the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2006. This play proposes that globalization is a trap. In this alignment of globalization and “the trap,” the entrapment brings forth a dichotomy: the global and the local. This dichotomy is strongly imagined in the staging of IntelStar, where the local is presented as the prey or the victim in the entrapment. But in the f inal analysis, the performance mediates the sociality between the local and the global and ultimately performs an entanglement of the local and the global as a reference to an attraction and repulsion to globalization. However, in such treatment of globalization, the Studio Theatre also becomes a model of the trap where artists become the hunters and the audience members, the victims.

The paper is a conceptual inquiry on the later Wittgenstein’s approach to ethics through an account of how the method of language-games applies to research on the bystander effect. Using the Kitty Genovese murder and the Wang Yue hit-and-run as sample cases, I cite findings on how the bystander effect involves confusion on action due to the ambiguity of the situation. I argue that the presence of this ambiguity is consistent with Wittgenstein’s view on the indeterminacy of language and that the method of language-games offers a solution via an approach of engaged reflection rather than abstract deliberation. The method of language-games deters the bystander effect by establishing a sensitivity that puts us in a better position to clarify and take the perspective of others. Emphasis on acquiring this sensitivity is significantly similar to how closeness and social learning facilitate social courage. I conclude by explaining how the method of language-games leads to a critical conception of agency that is fundamentally connected to a sense of the other and how closeness and social learning serve as concrete illustrations of how Wittgenstein’s method of language-games becomes applicable in practical ethics.

Ang pag-aaral na ito ay isang pagsipat sa grammar ng Tagalog batay sa mga prinsipyo ng Cognitive Grammar, na may partikular na diin sa clause structure. Bilang isang theoretical framework na tumitingin sa wika bilang bahagi ng human cognition, tutukuyin ng pananaliksik na ito ang clausal at sentential organisation ng Tagalog, na nagsisilbing 'schematic templates' na nabuo bilang consequence ng madalas na gamit at/o pagkarinig. Ang unang chapter ay maglalahad ng ilang prerequisite ng pananaliksik tulad ng paksa, kaligiran, at layunin ng pag-aaral; sakop at limitasyon at metodolohiyang ginamit; at ang kahalagahan ng ganitong approach sa makaagham na pag-aaral ng wika. Umiinog ang ikalawang chapter sa theoretical framework na Cognitive Grammar—ang pagsasakonteksto nito sa mas malawak na Cognitive Linguistics enterprise at ang pagtalakay sa mga batayang assumption, konsepto, at prinsipyong umiiral sa Cognitive Grammar. Sa ikatlong chapter naman matutunghayan ang iba‟t ibang event schema sa Tagalog, at ang descriptive na analysis sa structure at organisation ng mga pangungusap na nagpapahayag ng mga event schema, na nahati sa tatlong worlds of experience: material world, psychological world, at force-dynamics world. Ang ikaapat na chapter naman ay ang pagbibigay-representasyon sa construction ng sentence sa pamamagitan ng structural syntax na bahagi ng Cognitive Grammar. Pagtutuunan ng pansin ang construction at derivation ng mga structure na bumubuo sa basic sentence at ilang halimbawa ng complex construction tulad ng adverbial expression, relativised clause, at embedded clause bilang object ng utterance/cognition verb. Ang huling bahagi ay ang paglalahad ng ilan pang punto sa applicability ng Cognitive Grammar sa pag-aaral ng Tagalog. Matutunghayan din ang pagmumungkahing ang mga resulta ng pananaliksik sa ilalim ng nasabing framework ay may malaking maiaambag sa mga kaugnay na pag-aaral ng wika tulad ng psycholinguistics, language acquisition at learning, at pedagogy.

In Philippine culture, babaeng bakla refers to women who associate with and develop close friendships with gay men and participate in gay cultural activities. This paper discusses a research investigation that examines the “babaeng bakla” phenomenon in the Philippines from the perspective of personality trait psychology. Using both imported and indigenous personality measures, we tested the hypothesis that women who are “babaeng bakla” might differ from other women along certain trait dimensions. Based on our findings, we developed a tentative model which suggests that Filipino women with certain personality characteristics form a reciprocal attraction with gay men. This leads them to develop close friendships with gay men and in turn fashion a “babaeng bakla” identity within Filipino gay culture.