“ Ask not what your country can do for you,

Ask what you can do for your country “

John F. Kennedy
Learning Objective
Student Outcome

1. Identify factors that shape the political

self.
2. Describe the role and/or interaction of
the different elements in the formation of a
political self
3. Develop the spirit of nationalism and
patriotism in order for them to become a
responsible citizen of our country
“ Honesty and Integrity are the best
policies. “Stand with anybody that
stands right with him when he is right,
and part with him when he goes wrong.
(Lincoln)
It involves making common decisions for a group of
people.

It is the activity by which differing interests within a

given unit of rule are conciliated by giving them a
share in power in proportion to their importance to
the welfare and survival of the whole community
Philippine Politics

Elitism
Personalistic politics
 Philippine politics is personalistic by
Lewis E. Gleeck, on his book “President
Marcos and the Philippine Political
Culture,”
“Kleptocracy”
Orientation of political self

 Political attachment and loyalties directed towards the

nation or its significant political symbols
 National identity
 Particular content : democracy
 Formal content: separation of powers, democratic system govern in the
name of people and are accountable to them

 Various forms of specific knowledge, feelings, beliefs

about political institutions
 More transient views about specific policies, issues,
programs, personalities and events
Sample in class activity 1 – Filipino
Citizen
Objective:
Procedure:
Reflection regarding the duties 1. Instruct students to ponder and write down
and responsibilities of Filipino some preliminary thoughts being a good
citizenship based on their Filipino Citizen for a few minutes.
opinion. Students will reflect on Let the students partner and share their
what it means to be a model thoughts with one another
citizen and create pamphlet - Have partners report their thoughts
entitled “How to be a Pro-
Active Citizen”
2. Continue the exploration by creating a
Materials: pamphlet to inspire and teach people how to
Art Paper, be a model Filipino citizens.
colored markers,
scissors

Duration:
30-45 minutes
How can we define identities?
‘A New Politics of Identity’
(2008)
Lord Bhikhu Parekh
Defined identities as:
• Personal – our unique and
distinct characteristics
• Social – roles & members
of groups
• Human – universal;
membership of the
human species
in a globalized world.
Political Identity?
Three levels
Passive identities in the form
of lived relationships but not
acted on
Active – conscious identities
that come to the fore when
threatened
Politicized – a more constant
base for actions and how
individuals identify themselves
Sample in class activity 2 –
Jigsaw Political Self
• Objective
cooperate as group members share responsibility for each other's
learning by using critical thinking and social skills to complete an
assignment.
• Instructions:
Step 1: Divide the class into three groups.
Step 2: Divide the day’s reading or lesson for a different segment.
Step 3: Give students time to learn and process their assigned
segment independently.
Step 4: Put students who completed the same segment together into
an “Expert group” to talk about and process the details of their
segment.
Step 5: Have students return to their original “Jigsaw” groups and
take turns sharing the segments they’ve become experts on.
Step 6: Have students complete a task or a quiz that’s reliant on them
having understood the material from the contributions of all their
group members.

Time Duration: 30 minutes

Materials: Reading Materials, paper and pen
1st level:Individual
Attitudes and values
• Presence of dualism
• Highlights the contradiction
between self-interest and the
good of the community
• Attitudes change

• Due to events that

sweep the nation
• Due to involvement
in service-oriented
activities
 MEDIA
positive and negative portrayals
of citizenship
Provides venues for the

2nd Level : Institutional discussion of issues and

exposing anomalies in the
conduct of public affairs

Families are prepared to teach their children basic

human
values and instill discipline, they look to the
schools to

• Family associated
teach nationhood and its

values
• School NON-GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE’S

• Church
ORGANIZATIONS
Utilize non-formal venues of expression
and decision-making that influence policy
makers in both the government and the

• Media private sector

Engage in value-formation
• Government
in their leadership training, seminars on
gender sensitivity and others

• Non-government CHURCH
Periodically issues pastoral letters which deal
with social realities as discerned in the context

and people’s organizations of the gospel

GOVERNMENT
Prescribes official programs such as the curriculum
in
state-run elementary and high schools
Provides frameworks and the environment for the
exercise
of rights and the fulfillment of social
obligations
3rd level: Community
•The degree of identification with the
nation depends, among others, on the
type of community to which one belongs
and the extent to which it is served by, or
benefits from, instruments of the state
Social responsibilities

To be loyal to the Republic

To love and defend the country
To contribute to the development and welfare of
the State
To uphold the Constitution and obey the laws
To cooperative with duly constituted authorities
To exercise rights responsibly and with due regard
for the right of others
To engage in gainful work
1987 Philippine Constitution
Role of citizenship in developing
political self?
•gives young people a sense that they have a
stake in society and democracy
• learning to be ‘political’, skills and
experience of being actively involved in
democracy
• learning about eg the relationship between
citizens and the state, how democracy works
a need to explore, understand, negotiate
their identities
Sample in class activity 3– self
portrait
Objectives:
Able to reflect on the imagery Procedure:
that represent key elements of
political identity
• PART 1:
Materials:
• create a portrait made up
Bond papers of objects, symbols
Pencil and/or imagery that
Time Limit: 1 hour represent key elements
of a political identity.
• you can create these
portraits using whatever
medium you choose
References:

 Ballacci, Giuseppe, Political, Theory between Philosophy and

Rhetoric, Politics and Society, Palgrave Macmillan U.K 2018

 Brewer, Robert Lee, Writer’s Market: The Most Trusted Guide

to Getting Published, W. Media , Inc. Writers Digest Book.
2014.
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Thank You 