Charo M.

Magsino
What is Values for You?
Since February 1986 revolution
• - Values Development has been one major concern of the Department of
education , Culture and Sports (DECS)
• Undersecretary Minda Sutaria
- publicized the second draft of the DECS Overall Values Framework
- designed to assist teachers
- basically similar to “Paideia,Humanism, and magpakatao: Values for
National Reconstruction” by Fr. Raul Bonoan, S.J.
- bases its framework on the provisions of the Philippine Constitution of 1986
• Question:
• If we are to discover our traditional values and make
sure that they contribute to the “just and humane
society” and “total human liberation and
development”
• 1.What is the philosophical basis of Filipino values?
• 2.What is distinctive about the Filipino value system?
VALUE PHILOSOPHY
• Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of human values is
necessary for an understanding of Filipino values and
values education.
A Filipino experiences - family closeness and solidarity
(pagpapahalaga sa pamilya)
- politeness (use of po or ho)
- hospitality (tuloy po kayo)
- gratitude (utang na loob)
• From “within”, that is subjectively and emotionally unlike a
non filipino observer, social sceientist, or psychologist who
studies Filipino values objectively from “without” or “from a
distance”
Filipino values as
- Social acceptance ( pakikisama, amor propio,economic
security,pagmamay ari)
- Trust in God (paniniwala sa Diyos, bathala or Maykapal)
• Values - both subjective and objective
- involve a subject or person who values ( e.g. a young girl)
- And an object or value to be realized (e.g.
pagkamahinhin)
• FILIPINO VALUES: Nature, Constellation and Context

• What are Filipino values?

• What is distinctly Filipino in our value system?
- The Filipino value system arises from our culture or way of life
(our distinctive way of becoming human in this particular place and time)

• First:
Although mankind shares universal values,it is obvious that certain values take on for us
Filipinos only.
• Second:
When we speak Filipino values, we do not mean that elements of these values are absent in the value systems of
other peoples and culture.
The difference lies in the way these elements are ranked, combined, or emphasized
e.g: American culture ( promptness and efficiency)
Filipino (family and God centeredness)
In China ( honesty and hardwork)
• Third:
UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES in a Filipino context (historical,cultural, socio-economic, political, moral and
religious)
• Fourth:
Filipino values in the sense that the historical consciousness of values has evolved among our people.
FILIPINO VALUES: AMBIVALENCE AND SPLIT LEVEL CHRISTIANITY
Are Filipino Values good or bad? They are AMBIVALENT in the sense that they are a
potential for good and evil.
- a help or hindrance to personal and national development, depending on how they are
understood,practiced or lived.

• e.g: pakikisama sa kabuktutan or sa kaunlaran

Utang na loob -----pakiusap, nepotism and “cronyism”
Pagmamay ari ng kapangyarihan (malakas -mahina syatem)
Hiya (pakitang tao or gaya gaya)
Machismo (tunay na lalake/ querida system and doble kara morality)
Bahala na mentality