Approaches Key Concepts and Ideas Strengths Weakness: Sikolohiyang Pilipino
Approaches Key Concepts and Ideas Strengths Weakness: Sikolohiyang Pilipino
And ideas
Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino 1. The liberation of the 1. It promotes
psychology) is a psychology Filipino psyche from colonial divisiveness rather than
Sikolohiyang born out of the experience, influence. promoting unity among
thought and orientation of 2. Its popular use outside the Filipino scholars,
Pilipino
the Filipinos. The approach is country adopted by (UNICEF) particularly psychologists.
one of "indigenization from adopting its program
within" whereby the framework for
theoretical framework and its trauma programs that
methodology emerge from puts value in the culture.
the experiences of the
people from the indigenous
culture.
In general, Filipinology 1. comprehension, 1. due to our colonial
(Filipino: Filipinolohiya) orappreciation, and critical experience, the Filipino
Philippine Studies refers to evaluation of the Philippines scholar has become
Pilipinohiya the study of the Philippines through Philippine History subservient to the
and the Filipino people. 2. The incorporation of scholarship of the foreign
Belinda A. Aquino, former Philippine Humanities Other echoing the
director of the Center for through literary readings, colonial viewpoint on the
Philippine Studies at the listening to musical Filipino.
University of Hawaii at recordings, film viewings,
Manoa, defines Philippine and field trips provide
Studies development of cultural
acceptance and aesthetic
sense.
The pantayong pananaw 1. It was the framework 1. Inclusive use of
(also called Bagong advocating a nationalist Philippine language in
Kasaysayan, or New History) perspective primarily the use discourse is a weakness of
Pantayong is currently the most of Filipino as the language of this theory, especially the
Pananaw elaborate articulation of an discourse. rejection of concepts that
indigenized social science 2. Bridging the gap between do not originate from
perspective. It offers a the masses and the elite, Philippine languages as
culturally-sensitive what Salazar coined as the automatically foreign or
alternative to (Western) great cultural divide. wester.
positivist social science. 3. It is also created with 2. Guillermo shows that
Pantayong Pananaw seeks to ushering Philippine even foreign theories
create a 'closed circuit' historiography into a new could be appropriated
between academic discourse era, and that is Bagong and indigenized to suit to
(especially history) and Kasaysayan. local context
indigenous knowledge.