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GENERAL EDUCATION AREA
1st Semesters, A.Y. 2020

TEACHING-LEARNING MODULE

Course Code : <GE/SOC 101>

Course Title : UNDERSTANDING THE SELF
Class Schedule :
Room No. :
Professor/Instructor : Congreso, Stearril P. ;Campos, Justine John and Curaza, LydiaJosefina R.
E-mail Address : stearril@gmail.com;
Consultation Hours :

A. Course Description
The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that affect the
development and maintenance of personal identity. The directive to Know Oneself has inspired
countless and varied ways to comply. Among the questions that everyone has had to grapple
with at one time or other is ‘Who am I?’ At no other period is this question asked more urgently
than in adolescence – traditionally believed to be a time of vulnerability and great possibilities.
Issues of self and identity are among the most critical for the young.

This course is intended to facilitate the exploration of the issues and concerns regarding self
and identity to arrive at a better understanding of one’s self. It strives to meet this goal by
stressing the integration of the personal with the academic – contextualizing matters discussed
in the classroom and in the everyday experiences of students – making for better learning,
generating a new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more critical and
reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better
quality of life.

The course is divided into three major parts: The first part seeks to understand the construct
of the self from the various disciplinal perspectives: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and
psychology – as well as the more traditional division between the East and West – each seeking
to provide answers to the difficult but essential question of “What is the self?” and raising,
among others, the question: “Is there even such a construct as the self?”

The second part explores some of the various aspects that make up the self, such as the
biological and material up to and including the more recent Digital Self. The third and final part
identifies three areas of concern for young students: learning, goal setting, and managing
stress. It also provides for the more practical application of the concepts discussed in this
course and enables them the hands-on experience of developing self-help plans for self-
regulated learning, goal setting, and self-care.

This course includes the mandatory topics on Family Planning and Population Education.
 B. Course Outcomes
a. Articulated the relationship of education to larger historical, cultural and political
processes.
b. Facilitated learning using a wide range of teaching methodologies in various
types of environment.
c. Developed alternative reaching approaches for diverse learners.
d. Applied skills in curriculum development, lesson planning materials development,
instructional delivery and educational assessment.
e. Demonstrated basic higher and higher levels of thinking skill in planning,
assessing and reporting.
f. Practiced professional and ethical teaching standards to respond to the demands
of the community.
g. Pursued lifelong learning for personal and professional growth

C. Course Requirements

D. Intended Values Formation

MODULE NO. 2

Material /Economic Self

Module Introduction:

DAY 1
LESSON NO. 5
LESSON TITLE Material/Economic Self
DURATION/HOURS 3 hours
Specific Learning During the students' learning engagements, they will be able to:
Outcomes:  LO 1: Show the relationship between the self and material
possessions,
 LO 2: Assess one’s material self and
 LO3: Write an essay based on the title of the collage they
made.
TEACHING LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Activity 1: What to Buy Challenge
The students will list all the things they want to buy when somebody give them a cash
of P 5,000.00 and let them use it.
“Things you want to Buy”
1.
2.
3.
4.

Activity 2 : Processing
1. How do you feel as you do the “What to buy challenge”?
 2. Which among of the items in your list you like most? Why?
3. If ever you were given the chance in real life to have one among the list, which would
you choose? Why?
4. Does your choice different from what you answer in question #2? Why or why not?

Activity 3 : Think Pair and share

1. Let the classmate read the list and ask him/her a quick impression of yourself based on
the list you showed to her/him.
2. Is the quick impression of your classmate has some truth about who you are?

Short Discussion/lecture

Activity 4.
Worksheet -Material Self Activity
Things you Categories of Material Self
want to
Buy
1. Body Clothes Family Home
2.
3.
4.
5.

Guide:
1. Transfer the things you list in the categories you think they belong.
2. Which among the categories you have the most in your list?
3. What do you think these things tell you about yourself?

Activity 5 : Collage Making

1. Create a collage of your treasured possessions including your current clothing style.
2. Students may use symbols or pictures of treasured possessions.
3. Make a title of your collage.
4. Students may take the picture of their collage made.

Rubric/Criteria:
15 pts. maximum- used variety of pictures and develop main idea
20 pts. maximum- originality and interests
10 pts. maximum- Relevance of materials connected to main idea
5 pts. maximum- visual impact is very effective as a whole
Total points= 50
SYNTHESIS:

Closing Guide:
1. What is material self? What is the importance of knowing our material self?
2. How the possessions we have are related to ourselves?
3. How these possessions affect our happiness?

Material self refers to those things capable of being perceived especially by the sense
of touch that significantly influence man towards himself. We are deeply affected by these things
because we have put much investments of our self to them.
The innermost part of the material self is the body in which it has an attachment or
intimate closeness to certain body parts because of its value to us. Next to the body is the
clothes which that takes an essential part of material self. Clothing is a form of self-expression.
We choose and wear clothes that reflect our self. The third in the hierarchy is our immediate
family. What our family does or become affects us. We place huge investment in our immediate
family when we see them as the nearest replica of our self. The fourth component of material
self is our home. Home is where our heart is. The home thus is an extension of self, because in
it, we can directly connect our self.
Having investment of self to things, made us attached to those things. The more
investment of self-given to the particular thing, the more we identify ourselves to it. The
collections in different degree of investment of self, becomes part of the self. Possessions then
become a part or an extension of the self.

REFLECTION
STATEMENTS
ASSESSMENTS Activity 6
Direction: Write an explanation essay on the title of the collage you
make.

Criteria:
15 points maximum- Content of the explanation
10 points maximum- Organization and logic
5 points maximum- Mechanics of writing
Total points=25
ASSIGNMENT Direction: In a sheet of paper, make a research on” the Role of Filipino
consumer to Filipino self and Identity”.

Criteria :
15 points maximum- content and organization of the research
10 points maximum- coherence to the topic being search
5 points maximum- resources used
Total points= 30
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http://allpsych.com/psychology101/development.html

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Verified and validated by: Approved by:

Congreso,Stearril P.
Campos, Justine John and
Curaza, LydiaJosefina R. Program Chair Dean, College of Vice President for Academic Services
Instructor