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MSC@70 Building an Institutional Museum and Site of Memory among MSCians

Abstract

The Marinduque State College (MSC) Library and Learning Resource Center has inaugurated a museum in commemoration of the 70th foundation in June 12, 2022. Based on the deliberation of its Historical Collection and Preservation Committee composed of Sentro ng Wika at Kultura, Business Affairs Office, LRC, Office of Media and Internationalization Affairs with the respective campuses of Santa Cruz, Gasan and Torrijos in coordination with the campus Land Use Development and Infrastructure Plan (LUDIP) committee. Considering two themes, museum and gallery studies and cultural roles of public libraries, this preliminary investigations seeks to document certain innovation and outcomes for building further the collection of MSC for the succeeding milestones of the institution. Borrowing and distilling some salient features of the TIPPING Guide: The Innovation Program’s Perspective for the New Governance of Islands, MSC LRC would be documenting both existing innovation and new innovation ecosystems. To date, since the platinum anniversary of MSC it has produced a microsite and a heritage collection catalogue. The MSC Heritage Collection Microsites constitute the existing innovation system along with the MSC Heritage Collection Catalogue. This would serve as a guide for selecting the most appropriate strategies from the TIPPING guide from working with the creative sector, long-term cooperation with Small-Medium Enterprise and Non-Government Organizations, stimulating the network of young entrepreneurs, foster the import and export of knowledge, community involvement, crowd co-design, special institutional arrangements or innovation policy fitness. Meanwhile, there are some more new innovation since the opening of the museum, there was a screening of vlog series about the MSC Heritage Museum vis-à-vis the Regional Science Centrum which was the renovated Research and Extension Building.

 

Keywords: heritage, institutional museum, curatorial, memory, tipping

Bro. Karl Gaspar and Mindanawon Studies: Philippine Post coloniality and Decoloniality in local studies in Mindanao

On the other end of the spectrum, Bro. Karl Gaspar as a longstanding Mindanawon NGO and cultural worker has helped build indigenous communities. From the period of social unrest and militant protest actions during the 1970s, the political climate has paved way for alternatives in particular in Mindanao. His initial engagement, as part of the Mindanao Sulu Pastoral Conference and setting-up Social Action Centers has culminated in a consortium of Mary Knoll priests, Third World Studies Centre researchers and other passionate individuals brought about the inception of Alternative Resource Centre which would later become Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao. Among the issues of the day were human rights violations, dislocation, militarisation and enforced disappearances.

 

Given the context, all must come to an end even the dictatorship and there was a restoration of democratic institutions. There was a period of development aid boon in the country. The results of such flurry is the establishment of more NGOs especially in Mindanao. After a decade of agrarian reform, the development issue has remained an issue. Other factors affecting Mindanao peace and conflict situation were given attention but the emergent cause was structural. Despite of past development decades, after the Second World War, there was a shift among NGOs from needs based to rights based approach. From the prior to a more contemporary approach, Mindanao was asserted to have the right to development. The key to development are policies however it also demanded a basis. Through research, one can influence policy formulation, one could also determine if a policy could favour a particular sector or the greater number of members of the community.

 

Meanwhile, as a Philipinologist who was brought up in Mindanao, there are a number of attempts Bro. Karl Gaspar tried to conceptualize Mindanao Studies. From his yet to be published collection of speeches, conference papers and informal remarks, there are at least three articles dealing with the said issue. In his paper read during the first workshop of the “study group” with Fr Bert, he provided an overview of the state of the art of Local Studies in Mindanao. Bro. Karl summed up his ideas in a paper entitled “Mindanao Studies’ state of Theorizing and its Theorizing of Mindanao” in 2002. In a similar attempt during a National Conference of the Anthropological Association of the Philippines in 2002 at the island garden city of Samal, “The state of Contemporary Anthropological research in and about Mindanao.” Finally, the third paper on Mindanao Studies which he shared during the Mindanawon symposium in 2007,  “the lives and works and anthropologists doing Mindanao studies.”

 

list of studies done on/ about Mindanao (Gaspar 2007)

  1. ancestral domain
  2. conflict and conflict resolutions
  3. peace and development
  4. social movements (resistance movement, revolutionary struggles) tri-people movement, leadership)
  5. social development programs, community development programs
  6. gender, women studies
  7. ethnohistory, ethnography
  8. various aspects of the history, life and culture of muslim
  9. traditional healing and belief systems interaction between xtianity and IP belief system
  10. cultural change
  11. folklore
  12. children
  13. sama dilaut studies
  14. others

Likhai Art Exchange itutuloy ngayong Nobyembre 10-12

 

Boac, Marinduque – bagamat nagkaroon ng pagbabago sa petsa ng Marinduque Culture and Arts Festival, tuloy na tuloy na ang Likhai Marinduque ngayong weekend, Nobyembre 10 hanggang 12.

 

Sa unang araw, ay magkakaroon ng festival parade kasama ang drum and lyre ng Marinduque National High School sa Moriones Arena sa bayan ng Boac. Kasunod nito ay mayroon ding pambungad na palatuntunan, kasama ang punong lalawigan, Hon. Presby Velasco Jr, provincial administrator Kuya Mike Velasco  at panlalawigang direktor ng Department of Trade and Industry Roniel Macatol. May pagtatanghal din ng putong ang MNHS, Pangkat Kalutang at pagpapaliwanag sa gawain ang Union Locale.

 

Sabay-sabay ang mga palihan, art talks at eksibit sa mga venue. Ang tampok sa ikalawang araw ay ang sabayang pagpinta mula sa painting workshop class, malayang pintahan bukas sa lahat na magpapatala at artwork exchange, may blind date rin sa artwork para sa mga kalahok at manonood ng Likhai Marinduque.

 

Ang Marinduque Culture an Arts Festival ay bahagi ng inisyatiba na magkaroon ng creative/cultural industry  o orange economy sa lalawigan para sa tuloy-tuloy na pag-unlad sa Marinduque. Sa pamamagitan ng Union Locale, suporta ng pamahalaang lokal ng Marinduque, DTI Marinduque, Island Innovation, MNHS at Marinduque State College kasama ang Alitaptap Artist Village, inaasahang una pa lang sa serye at palagiang gawain ang Likhai art exchange at Marinduque Creative Island Innovation.

 

 

hulaw conference/ 11th tayabas conference

EdM 201: socio-cultural foundation of education in Gumaca, Quezon, Celebrate Islands Week in Boac, Marinduque and PASCHR 9 in Virac, Catanduanes

August 18-20/ tayabas

 

Abstract

There are at least three reasons for celebration: one for national heritage month (NHM) every May of each year,  another for the 10th edition of Celebrate Islands Week during May 10 to 17 and lastly, for the 9th Philippine Association for the Study of Culture, History and Religion (PASCHR). Considering the three reasons, there is also one more reason to celebrate, the culmination of 3rd reiteration of Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education at Marinduque State College (MSC) Graduate School. EdM 201 is a foundation course for every MSCian graduate student who is taking up MAEd. I first had the opportunity to handle the class in 2017 with pioneering graduate students and some who would pursue a Graduate Diploma in Cultural Education (GDCE). By 2018, MSC had its GDCE Marinduque Batch 1 with half of the teacher-scholars are from MSC and the rest from Marinduque National High School (MNHS). This was also the time for the 1st batch of the Bachelor of Culture, Arts Education (BCAEd). It was only in 2020, during the occasion of the Marinduque centennial and slight prior the pandemic. By then, we’re able to complete one batch of GDCE and started a new batch for Mindoro and Romblon. In between the Batch 1 and 2 of GDCE, the pioneering batch of BCAEd have graduated. This brings us to the third reiteration of EdM 201 which we are holding the culmination for.

 

At this point, the Socio-Cultural Foundations of Education have been offered beyond MSC and now in Eastern Quezon College (EQC) in Gumaca. Like the courses that have been offered in MSC Graduate School before, there are non-negotiable and negotiable requirements. For the non-negotiable deliverables are the lesson exemplars and teaching demo. Moving from EdM201 and the wealth of experience from GDCE, in particular in CulEd 206: Local Cultural Mapping and CulEd 207: Culture-based Lesson Exemplars we’re able to draw contextualized lessons for basic, junior/ senior high school and even higher learning. On the other hand, the class also have some negotiable requirements for one reason or the other when the adult learner have difficulties with complying. During this third reiteration of EdM201, then it was introduced 120 second videos inspired by the Celebrate Islands and some pubmats for national heritage month and Ocean Decade.

 

Keywords: cultural education, culture-based education, local cultural mapping, lesson exemplars, island studies