STS Outcome Base Module

Midterm Activity 2: Metacognitive Reading Report

Name: Vinluan, Jericho P.

Course and Year: BSCE 2 Blk 1
Date:

Instruction: Read one of the two Articles and accomplish the Metacognitive Reading Report after.
(Encoded or handwritten) – page 59 of the book for STS

1. Caoli, Olivia. “A History of Science and Technology of the Philippines,” in Analysis of

Conditions for National Scientific and Technological Self-Reliance: The Philippine Situation,
Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 1986.

2. Gripaldo, Rolando M. (2007). The concept of the public good: a view from a Filipino philosopher

1. Difficult Concept (Things that are still unclear to me)

The concept of the public good: a view from a Filipino philosopher

Gripaldo, Rolando M.

 Politicoethical sense of Public Goods

 Private Public Goods
 Difference of Public Public Goods and Public Goods

2. Learning Insight (Things that I significantly learned from the readings)

a. Before reading the article, I thought that
Before reading the article, I thought that the concept of public good is about the
characteristic of a person in a public.

b. However, After reading the article, I now think/learned

that
However, reading the article/understanding the lesson, I now think/realize that
the public good is about the product that is consume by people and benefits of the
community or the public. It is also “nonrivalrous” and “nonexcludable” which means
the availability of the good does not decrease the use and goods are also accessible by
anyone without an exemption.

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1. Discussion Question (questions that I want to ask about the readings)

a. If there is national public goods, would it possible to have an global public goods?

b. when there is a project by national people in the ancestral lands, even if the communal people
refused to accept their offers, the project will be push through. In this case, where are the rights of
the communal people?