Pantayong Pananaw

Pantayong Pananaw/Bagong Kasaysayan, Pilipinolohiya, and Sikolohiyang Pilipino were

spearhead by Zeus Salazar, Prospero Covar, and Virgilio Enriquez. Incidentally, all of them are
from the University of the Philippines, of the same generation, and were part of the intellectual
ferment of the Philippine academe during the 1970s. Salazar is a historian-ethnologist, Covar is
an anthropologist, and Enriquez is a psychologist. All of them attempted to come up with
Filipino academic discipline based on the idea that Filipino culture, society, and language should
provide the necessary tools, concepts, and discourse to effectively and meaningfully interpret
the Filipino—his and her history, personhood, consciousness, social relations, and social
organization. Only a contextualized and culturally sensitive theorizing and methodology could
sufficiently explain who we are as people.

The pantayong pananaw (also called Bagong Kasaysayan, or New History) is currently
the most theoretically elaborate articulation of an indigenized social science perspective that
offers a viable alternative to (Western) positivist social science. The pantayong pananaw is the
brainchild of Prof. Zeus Salazar, a historian who spent most of his teaching career at the
Department of History at the University of the Philippines-Diliman; in the course of his
advocacy, Salazar was able to gather a number of historians who shared his call for a more
culturally-sensitive historiography in the teaching of Philippine history. At present, the
pantayong pananaw has become an established perspective in Philippine historiography and
has spread outside the University’s own Department of History.

 Pantayong Pananaw posits that history is not only about recording of events, much like
the tradition of historia/histoire/history of the West nut also about finding meaning in
past events. Salazar went on to propose a new timeline or periodization of Philippine
history, which he calls Bagong Kasaysayan (or new history).
 Several Tentative and scattered articulation of the basic approach and philosophy of
Pantatyong Pananaw with various magazine and short books.
 Until the definitive of systematic exposition of Pantayong Pananaw was published in
1991 at the essay “Ang Pantayong Pananaw bilang diskursong Pangkabihasnan”.

This is how we can apply Pantayong Pananaw in real life situations.

 Pantatyong Pananaw is found to be useful in women’s studies particularly in writing

about the silent contributions and impact of the women in social, Economic, Political and
Historical development of the country.