CAGAYAN STATE UNIVERSITY

NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM

Civic Welfare Training Service

MODULE 2
The Human Person and
The Filipino Value System

INTRODUCTION:

The task of education is to help the Filipino develop his potential to contribute to the
growth of Philippine culture. By controlling the environment and making use of human and non-
human resources, he builds appropriate structures and institutions for the attainment of a “just and
humane society”. Thus, the person can become more human through education, for this would aid
him to know and appreciate his purpose as a human being.

OBJECTIVES:

At the end of Module 2, students should be able to:

 Understand that the human person undergoes growth in different phases

 Appreciate the human person as a multi-dimensional being
 Take pride of our identity as a Filipino
 Uphold Filipino Values in the contemporary times

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Civic Welfare Training Service

MOTIVATION:

The Johari Window model is a simple and useful tool for illustrating and improving self-
awareness, and mutual understanding between individuals within a group. This model can also be
used to assess and improve a group's relationship with other groups. It was devised by American
psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham.

Try to enumerate 2 characteristics of yours in quadrants 1, 2, and 3 since quadrant 4 can’t

be known. In this activity, we will make a simple apprehension of who we are.

PROCESS:

In this part, the answers from the students are important as these will be considered during the
discussion of the topic. This would also facilitate them in doing the learning task at the end of the
module.

CONTENT/DISCUSSION:

A. Understanding Self Concept and Its Dynamics

1. Definition. Self-concept refers to our conscious or unconscious perceptions and
feelings about ourselves with regard to our worth as persons.
2. Early Development. Self-concept begins during our early development, how we
are told about who we are and what worth we have. In the process, we acquire a
picture of ourselves and we begin to qualify our experiences according to this
view of ourselves.
3. Inferiority and Superiority Complexes. These are symptoms of a poor self-
concept.
A person with superiority complex tries hard to “exhibit” his worth to others by
overstressing his strength. In truth, he is not really sure of his worth. A person
who believes in his worth does not feel the need to prove himself to others.

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A person with an inferiority complex overstresses his weaknesses. He suffers

from extreme feelings of negative self-worth. These feelings are so strong and
deeply etched in his personality that he is unable to recognize his strengths and
potentials.
4. Significant Roles of Self-Concept
i. Self-concept serves as a mirror because it reflects the picture of
ourselves, either positive or negative. We are happy or miserable
depending on the mirror image that our self-concept presents to us.
ii. Self-concept filters our experiences so that we interpret them according
to our pre-existing perception of ourselves.
5. Steps to Take toward a Healthy Self-Concept. Three Dimensions of Self-
Concept
i. Self-Image refers to all our perceptions and feelings about our worth
with regards to physical and social appearance. Our physical appearance
includes our genetic inheritance, such as sex and race, and our physical
attributes such as height, build, weight, and others. Our social appearance
includes our name, roles, status and titles. A person with a positive self-
image recognizes some of his physical and social limitations but does not
all these to deter him from feeling good about how he appears. He has
learned his limitations and therefore, feels at home with himself.
ii. Self-Confidence refers to all perceptions and feelings about our worth
with regards to our capabilities. This involves our ability to do things, to
achieve, and to develop more competencies. Self-confidence paves way
to productivity because the person believes in his potentials. He allows
these potentials to develop by trying. He is not afraid of making
mistakes. He does not fall into the trap “being perfect”. The development
of his abilities is measured within his own standard of development.
iii. Self-Esteem refers to all our perceptions and feelings about our worth
with regards to our lovability. This relates to our basic ability to love and
be loved. A person with high self-esteem believes he is lovable. He does
not reject and put down himself even when others seem to reject him. He
does not subject his lovability to conditions. If other persons love him, he
celebrates in it. But he does not let the love of others be a factor in
determining his lovability. A person with high self-esteem can love more
freely and spontaneously.

B. The Human Person as a Multi-Dimensional Being. Individual is distinguished between

the person as self and the person in the community.
1. As an individual/ self. He is not just body and soul, but he is an embodied spirit.
i. As physical (made of matter), man must maintain health and harmony
with nature.
ii. As intellectual (gifted with mind, the faculty of knowing), he must
constantly search for the truth. He seeks knowledge that would transform
society and the world.
iii. As moral (endowed with the faculty of freely choosing and loving), he
must go out to others and, in fact, to all humanity in love.
iv. As spiritual (capable of higher concerns and of rising above the
material), he must cultivate a sense of spirituality in consonance with his
nature and respond to God in faith.
2. As person in the community

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i. As social (living in community), he must cultivate the sense of social

responsibility, aware of his unique participation in the pursuit of the
welfare of the family and the common good of the larger society so that
society can, in turn, look after the common good and well-being of the
inhabitants.
ii. As economic (bound to concerns of livelihood), he has the obligation to
help achieve economic efficiency for the community.
iii. As political (member of the nation). He must foster the sense of
nationalism and patriotism, by which he identifies with the people and
joins hands with them in the pursuit of common goals. As a member of
the world community, he must cultivate a sense of global solidarity for
the emerging concerns and problems of one country can no longer be
considered in isolation of others.

C. The Filipino and His Value System

1. Definitions.
A value is something that is freely chosen from alternatives and is acted upon;
that which the individual celebrates as being part of his creative integration in
development as a person.
A value clarification is the process by which we help a person to discover values
through behavior, feelings, ideas and through important choices he has made and
is continually, in fact, acting upon in and through his life.
A person is continually developing his values; values can never be static but must
be continually re-chosen as the person grows in his world. As a person grows in
his identity and interdependence, he is continually choosing values and
fashioning his hierarchy of values
2. Categories.
i. Choosing.
1. The value must be chosen freely, there must be no coercion, the
person makes a free choice and is totally accountable for the
choice he makes.
2. The choice must be made from alternatives.
3. The consequences of each of the alternatives must be judged.
ii. Prizing. This means that a person who chooses a value must be happy
about what he has chosen and hold it as something dear to him.
4. Cherishing and being happy with the choice
5. Willing to affirm the choice publicly
iii. Acting. There must be a commitment-in-action which would change
one’s behavior and which would make evident to other people that there
is a value present. If something is really a value, it would be acted upon
and acted upon repeatedly.
6. Actually doing something with the choice
7. Actually repeated in some patterns of life
3. Value-Ranking. It is the process whereby a person examines, as
comprehensively as possible, all of his values and then ranks them, prioritizes
them, or put them within a hierarchy of values. Value-ranking is a conscious,
deliberate, well-articulated, well-thought-out ranking of chosen values. Growth
and personal identity are accomplished when an individual has the opportunity to
clarify his attitudes, weight the priorities operative in the formation of these

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attitudes, and come to chosen value-rankings which please and enhance him as a
person.
4. Primary Value. This helps a human being develop to the best of his capacity,
and therefore, he has a goal beyond normal functioning in society to exceptional
function. This is basic and necessary for development to take place.
1. Self-value. This is the ability to accept that “I am of total worth
to others.”
2. Value of others. This is the ability to accept that “Others are of
total worth, as I am.”
5. Related Values. The Value Education program of the Department of Education,
Culture and Sports (DECS) identifies human dignity as the supreme values that
characterize education: the human person is of infinite value. Human dignity is
the overarching value; all other values are pursued because of the inner worth of
the human person.
i. Health implies physical fitness and cleanliness.
ii. Truth implies the tireless quest for knowledge in all its forms. It is not
enough to discover data and know facts, but one must develop creative
and critical thinking to meet the challenges of the modern world.
iii. Love implies the quest for personal integrity and the development of
self-worth or self-esteem, honesty, and personal discipline which are
marks of a mature person and a useful citizen.
iv. Spirituality is the cultivation of faith.
v. Social responsibility means strengthening the family as the “foundation
of the nation” and “a basic autonomous social institution”.
vi. Economic Efficiency is achieved by man through work, the exercise of
human mastery over the resources of nature and creative imagination in
the solution of complex problems.
vii. Nationalism and Patriotism means the love of country and the people as
a distinct political unit bound by a common history, committed to a
common cause, and share a common destiny.
6. Value Orientation of Filipino Adolescents. According to Wilma Reyes in his
study on the Adolescent’s Value system
i. The values of the subjects cluster around six value themes:
pananampalataya sa Diyos, buhay, pamilya, saril, kapwa and edukasyon.
ii. Youth consider faith in God as the most important value in life because
this is the center of life itself. This is the animating force of life.
iii. The family is considered as a significant part of their own life. Self and
life are not complete without the family.
iv. The self is seen not as a separate entity but always related to other
people.
v. From the values of pananampalataya, buhay, pamilya and sarili spring
the love for kapwa. Everything is meaningless unless it is shared with the
kapwa.
vi. Education is considered important because an educated person is well
respected in our society and social mobility is directed towards having
good jobs and economically stable conditions.

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Civic Welfare Training Service

LEARNING TASK/S:

Answer every question briefly in at least 5-10 sentences.

1. Make an assessment as regards your development as a multi-dimensional being (elaborate each

dimension). Reflect on your limitations and weaknesses and provide practical ways to improve
and over come them.

2. Think of the best Filipino Value that you have acquired in your family. How does this affect
you as an individual? How can you share this in the community?

RUBRIC:

5 points- content
3 points- organization
2 points- mechanics

RESOURCES/CITATIONS:

Padilla, R. A. Civil Welfare Service: A Component of the Expanded ROTC Program. Rex
Bookstore Inc. Manila, Philippines.

https://www.businessballs.com/self-awareness/johari-window-model-and-free-diagrams/

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