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JEEPGY ACADEMY
CEAP
 Three-Fold Mission
•To promote solidarity and unity of action among
individuals and member-institutions that work towards
fulfilling the evangelizing mission of the Church in
education
•To widen access to and promote quality and
transformative Catholic education
•To serve as steadfast and effective catalyst for change
through education in the different dimensions of human
life
 Transformative Dimensions
• Not just about enabling people to be
productive in status quo structures
• Transforming people, society, cultures
(Ex Corde Ecclesiae)
 JEEPGY CONCERNS
• Imply a vision of society as it ought to be
• Presupposition of JEEPGY concerns: the
FAITH, the shared basis of our unity,
transformative education, advocacy
 Rationale and Objectives
• Transformative education aimed at
safeguarding value systems lies at the heart of
Catholic Education.
• CEAP JEEPGY Academy seeks to: a) present to
member-schools the CEAP JEEPGY framework
for Transformative Education; b) showcase the
different initiatives/best practices of
schools/institutions relating to JEEPGY;
• c) provide an avenue to check on member-
schools' compliance to legally required
programs relevant to the JEEPGY programs;
and d) integrate the use of media in the
curriculum. In addition, the JEEPGY Academy
hopes to impart the necessary knowledge,
skills, and attitudes for schools to adopt and
implement the pillar programs.
Picture credit: www.peacemakers.org.ukwww.peacemakers.org.uk
Why? What is our Theory of Change?
 A Whole School Approach is an effective way
of creating change/transformation
 Related to systems-thinking & holistic
education - a step towards a “whole of
society” approach
 Involves the whole: includes the school’s
vision, leadership & management, curriculum,
student programs & school culture,
cooperation with the wider community -
*ALL stakeholders, including parents
Justice and peace
 Towards a Holistic Understanding
of Peace and Violence
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What are the ideas you associate with

peace?
A Culture of
Peace
UNESCO
 Culture of Justice and Peace
• respect for life and for human rights
• rejection of violence
• fulfillment of basic needs
• enjoyment of fundamental freedom
• democratic participation
• intercultural understanding
• care for the earth
• respect for equal rights of women and men
 Definition of Terms
STEREOTYPE
• An oversimplified generalization about a
particular group based on incomplete
knowledge

PREJUDICE
• A negative or hostile feeling/attitude toward
a person or group without sufficient basis
Simple Recall

Cite examples
of ordinary life
situations
manifesting
prejudice.
 Some Types of Prejudice
Racism
• The belief that one’s own racial heritage is
innately superior to that of others, hence, the lack
of respect or appreciation for those who belong
to a “different race”
Sexism
• A system of attitudes, actions and institutional
structures that subordinates women on the basis
of their sex (Mcginnis & Oehlberg, 1991
Heterosexism
• Negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay
men
Classism
• Distancing from and perceiving the poor as
“the other” (Lott, 1995)
Linguicism
• Negative attitudes members of dominant
language groups hold against non-dominant
language groups (Chen-Hayes, Chen & Athar)
Ableism
Ableism
• Prejudice against people with disabilities
Looksism
• Prejudice against those who do not measure
up to set standards of beauty (Galace, 2003).
The usual victims are the overweight, the
undersized, and the dark-skinned.
Ethnocentrism
• Prejudice against those who differ in culture,
ethnicity or national origin
Religious intolerance
• Prejudice against those who have different
religious beliefs

Ageism
• Prejudice on the basis of age
 Effects of Prejudice
• Marginalization and exclusion of vulnerable
groups
• Violence against vulnerable persons and
groups
• Actual wars and conflicts between ethnic and
religious groups
• Terrorism
 Effects of Prejudice on Victims
• Damaged self-esteem
• Can be self-fulfilling
• Stress-related symptoms (hypertension,
stroke, cardiovascular disease)
• Emotional pain that result in fear, inferiority
anger or violence
 TOLERANCE
• Respect, acceptance and appreciation of the
rich diversity of our world’s cultures, our
forms of expression and ways of being
human
• Practice of tolerance means accepting the
fact that human beings, naturally diverse in
their appearance, situation, speech, behavior
and values have the right to live in peace and
to be as they are
 Buzz
• 1. What are the types of prejudice and
discrimination that you see in classroom/
school?

2. What strategies can we take to integrate the

value of tolerance in the curriculum? How
else can we challenge prejudice and
discrimination among our students?
 Peace and Justice through
Education
• Schools can consider infusing justice and
peace education into their learning content as
well as in their processes within and outside
the classrooms.

• Schools can serve as agents of change through

active justice and peace advocacy and solidarity
with kindred institutions and groups.
 Educating for Justice & Peace:
Approaches and Strategies
• Infusion/integration approach in various
subjects for basic education

• Offering of peace education as a separate

subject in the tertiary level (ex. Educating for
Peace in the teacher education curriculum;
Peace and Media for CA students; Peace and
Security for Political Science students)
Got other ideas?
 Some More Ideas
• values formation
• exposure trip to “marginalized” sectors
• use of religious teachings
• media campaign
• inter-faith and inter-ethnic dialogue
• consciousness-raising
• modeling
• advocacy- lobby for anti-discrimination
policies
Caring Relationships :
• Conflict Resolution Training
• Peer Mediation
• Parenting for Peace

Enrichment Program for Staff

• Creating a Peaceable Campus/Workplace
Justice and Peace Action:
• ADVOCACY/CAMPAIGNS
 Co-Curricular Programs
Celebrate Peace-Related Days
• Intl Humanitarian Law Day (Aug 12)
• International Day of Peace (Sept 21)
• Mindanao Week of Peace
• Human Rights Day (Dec. 10)
• Women’s Day (March 8)
Peace Clubs
• Pax Christi
He dressed, it wasn’t what I wore.
He took my hand, it wasn’t the color
of mine.
He prayed, it wasn’t my religion.
He ate, it wasn’t what I ate.
He spoke, it wasn’t my language.
But when he laughed, it was how I
laughed.
And when he cried, it was how I cried.
 Environmental
integrity
• Instruction and Formation
– Agenda for green campuses
• Beyond instruction to advocacy
– Agenda for renewable energy
– Agenda for urban planning
 Environmental Education

Education …
about the environment
in the environment
for the environment
 VISION
Development of citizens and leaders who
are respectful of the sacredness of
creation and who will work for an
ecologically sound environment,
equitable economic growth, and people
empowerment as pillars of sustainable
development
 OUR DREAM
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TERTIARY
SECONDARY
PRIMARY

ENVIRONMENTAL
PROFESSIONALS
ENVIRONMENTAL
CITIZENS
ENVIRONMENTAL
PERSONS
7 Environmental Principles
1. Nature knows best.
2. All forms of life are important.
3. Everything is connected to
everything else.
4. Everything changes.
5. Everything goes somewhere.
6. Ours is a finite earth.
7. Nature is beautiful and we are
stewards of God’s creation.
 Any disruption of the natural
processes/cycles would have detrimental
effects on the environment.

ECOLOGICAL BACKLASH
 RIGHT CHOICE
• boiled bananas
• banana chips
• softdrinks
• gulaman & sago
• coke in bottle
• coke in can
• cloth diaper
• disposable diaper
• breast milk
• baby formula
• Tide
• Perla
• unleaded gasoline
• premium gasoline
• bayong
• plastic bag
Mirriam College:
Environmental Studies
Institute (ESI):
Atrium garden,
big windows,
recycled wood,
natural light
 GMO free cafeteria

Rally against GMOs

 Green campus
The campus must reflect environmental principles.
 Systematic greening of campus
 Environmental management
 Ecological solid waste management
 Green architecture and design

MC Living Museum
 Balay ESI:
a learning area
• The ESI building is a
modern day “bahay
kubo” with huge
sliding windows in
each room, allows
natural light and air to
enter.
– Pakbet garden
– Fragrant and herbal gardens
– Vermicomposting area
– Green Thumb nursery
 accessories made
Eating meat of rare from rare and
and endangered endangered species
species! e.g., eg. pawikan, ivory!
pangolin
NO!! buying corals &
seashells!
furniture from
hardwood!
mink coats!

shooting birds for

shoes& bags made ecotourism!
from alligator skin &
snake skin! Gathering orchids
Life Style from the wild!
Barangay Escopa 2

Rotate the drums about 8 times,

3 times a day.

Stop adding food waste when the drums are

about 2/3 full. Continue rotating the drums 3
x a day for 5 days.

Mother Earth Foundation

Barangay Talayan

Mother Earth Foundation

 Engaged citizenship
• Formation for service of the need in society
• Formation for leadership
based on the common good
 Our Context
• A compendium of negative elements and
events have recently shaped our
socioeconomic and political landscape. Issues
never had any closure.
Our Context
• Public-servants-turned-
criminals who are never made
accountable. Persistence of
Poverty. The cover-up of truth.
The mockery of justice. The
failure to institute lasting
reforms. And the continuing
social exclusion and widening
income disparities despite
some positive economic
indicators.
 Our Context
• Electoral politics, while
formally democratic, has not
provided genuine
representation for the poor
and marginalized. It has not
led to meaningful social
change.
BROAD DESCIPTION OF CHALLENGES
• Politics is seen as being “dirty”
• The current state of the nation, for
many, is exasperating. Many Filipinos,
including the youth, feel powerless over
the continuing crisis.
• Many despair, grow cynical and become
distrustful of our leaders and
institutions. Many feel that there is
nothing that can be done in order to
counter and correct the various ills.
Jesus Christ as leadership role model

•Interiority
•Care and Concern for the
Person
•Developing Competence &
Confidence
•Community
•Compassion for the least, lost
and last
 Poverty reduction
• Creation of wealth and
equitable distribution
Poverty is a mindset that has to be changed. It is
externally seen as material lack.
 The Adamson University
Experience on Eradicating Poverty

100,000
households
From Northrail and Southrail
Philippine National Railways (PNR)
Transferred in the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite,
Pampanga, Laguna and Rizal
 Values-Based Principles
• Continuous values formation and
unconditional commitment

• Committed exposure and unconditional trust

• the element of concern and love shown in

their weekly volunteer works heals the
community
 Principle of Engagement
Engagement breeds forth strong
relationships among
stakeholders. It makes them
front liners in their campaign
towards community
empowerment.

People are no longer treated as problems of

society but as fellow partners in nation-building.
The opposite of love
is not hatred;

it is indifference.
Érico Veríssimo
Gender Equality
 Why Gender in Education?
• Historically women were excluded in learning
systems and in educational institutions in every
culture and society until the 18th century;
• Politically, they were not considered citizens
and were lumped with children and the
incapacitated as non-citizens;
• Women were thus dependent for their
identity on their fathers, husbands and
brothers.
• We need to understand that struggle for
equality of rights includes the right to equality
in education.

• Apart from gender socialization in the home,

education develops the foundation on which
people build their understanding of their
identity, their roles in society and their
relationship with other peoples and cultures.
• It forms the bedrock of our values, principles
and behavior and development as individuals
as people.

• Education can help reinforce narrow, parochial

and discriminatory attitudes or it could be a
progressive, liberating and transformative
means to develop, tolerance , respect for
differences and the rights of human beings
whatever their class, color , gender, creed, age
etc.
 GENDER EQUALITY

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 Gender equality means…
• Women and men enjoy the same pportunities
, rights , outcomes and obligations in all
spheres of life .

• Equality exists when men and women are

both equal actors, partners and beneficiaries
of sustainable development , human rights,
peace and security.
How to transform current teaching and
learning processes to become gender
responsive:
Lesson Planning
• Production or selection or use of teaching and
learning materials
• Language use
• Classroom set up
• Classroom interaction
• Management of sexual maturation
• Combating sexual harassment
Youth empowerment
These 3 motivations
are ranked highly in
every country
surveyed.
We have seen the
emergence of a
generation with
fundamental
commonalities that
transcend borders.
1.
Technology
as a
Fifth Sense
BIDAHAN KEY RESULT AREAS: THE 3 Es
E1: Empowering the Youth - Inspire the Youth to
believe in themselves as a key change catalyst

E2: Enabling the Youth – Organizing/ Providing

structures of support and programs for action

E3: Effecting and Sustaining Change - Providing

venues for youth action
 WHAT SCHOOLS CAN DO:
• Empower & Involve the students in school processes
– give students actual experience of empowerment &
dignity
• Student Councils as key vehicle for organizing and
coordinating student efforts
• Student Organizations – can take up issue-specific
advocacies related to the nature of the organization
◦e.g., media- or marketing-oriented organizations can
focus on “selling” the concept of an alternative
culture (culture of integrity)
• Bidahan Coordinator/Desk or Office
• ◦Oversee Needs Assessment, Program
Development and Program Implementation &
Evaluation
• Coordinate with Partner Organizations or
Advocacy Groups
• Develop Funding sources
• Help organize Regional Bidahan Programs
• Probing the extent of the influence of the
negative culture on the school itself
• Developing skills in combating dishonesty
• Examination of personal and family practices
that are the starting point of corruption (“How
does corruption start?”)
• Building systems and structures of Honesty
and Integrity
• School-based Formation Programs
• “Communal Discernment” /Formation
Workshops
• EHEM!-type sessions/workshops to
understand the Culture of Corruption
• Self-examination
Filipino Youth, quo vadis?
“TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION
is a paradigm shift in the system
of education, a redesigning of
school system. It is witnessing
the transformative process that
demands educators two
fundamental things: that they
become examples of
transformation as a lifelong
process, and that they teach to
bring about positive change of
hearts and minds.”

Rev. Fr. Percy Juan G. Bacani, MJ (CEAP JEEPGY

Academy, 2013)