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Course & Year: BEED -I
Sagisag Kultura
BACKGROUND
The Sagisag Kultura (SK) ng Filipinas aims to gather, select and promote the cultural icons of the
country, creating a database and registry of these symbols of Philippine culture. Under the Philippine
Cultural Education Program (PCEP), this is a cultural education project of the NCCA, through
its Subcommission on Cultural Dissemination (SCD) headed by Alice A. Pañares and PCEP Task Force
headed by Elmar Ingles, in cooperation with the Filipinas Institute of Translation (FIT) and Wika ng
Kultura at Agham (WIKA).
SK was initiated by National Artist for literature Virgilio S. Almario through a letter to NCCA chairman
Felipe M. de Leon, Jr. titled “Mungkahing Focus ng Cultural Education Mulang 2011,” in which Almario
emphasized the important involvement of the NCCA in the ongoing changes in national education with
the K-12 program. He said that it would be an opportune time for the NCCA to advance its two
advocacies of a culture-based education and Filipino as the language of instruction with the revisions in
curriculum, preparation of teaching guides and model lesson plans and teacher training. These can be
proposed to the Department of Education (DepEd).
The proposal was approved in a general meeting of NCCA commissioners on July 14, 2011, with funding
provided through the National Committee on Language and Translation (NCLT) and the SCD through its
PCEP. With Almario, Pañares and Ingles as proponents, consultants and advisers, the SK project was
crystallized with two initial phases that were implemented from August to December 2011. SK involved
experts such as Mario Miclat (history), Raul Navarro (music and dance), Patrick Flores (visual arts) and
Gonzalo Campoamor II (folk arts, folk beliefs and folk practices). The first phase involved the gathering
and review of cultural icons, and the second involved the writing of definitions for the first 800 icons,
which are considered priority.
An important resource and basis was PCEP’s Philippine Culture Index project, which identified the
important cultural concepts which are believed should be taught throughout the country.
Created in 2002 and started being implemented in March 2003, PCEP is a comprehensive medium-term
plan that outlines goals, policies, programs and projects on cultural education through the formal, non-
formal and informal systems designed to make cultural education accessible to all sectors of Philippine
society, particularly the youth, teachers, artists and cultural workers, officials and employees of the
government, members of the media and the civil society. It was formulated after a year-long series of
workshops, meetings and consultations in 2001 and 2002. It was first headed by Nestor Jardin with
Jeannie Javelosa as vice head.
The Philippine Culture Index project is one of the first activities of PCEP which involved cultural mapping
in which “mappers” in different regions of the country submitted their researches on the important
cultural items of their regions, and dialogues, workshops and forums among experts. More than 8,000
items from teachers and cultural workers from different regions and provinces of the Philippines were
collected and stored in a database. From these and based on other references, experts on Filipino
culture selected 2,000 national cultural symbols, which will be disseminated in parts.
The cultural icons include persons and heroes, who are natural-born Filipino citizens, had important
traits vital to the country’s progress and will serve as good role models for the Filipino youth, including
National Scientists, National Artists, presidents and heroes in Philippine history. Also included are items
of heritage, which must be more than 50 years old, native or indigenous, and/or important in national
history. They must be products of Filipino imagination and intelligence which we can be proud of.
Historical sites, native flora and fauna, inventions and important researches are also included.
Name: Jelcae Marie T. Donaire
Course & Year: BEED -I
Ang kabuuang proyekto ay isang registry o listahan ng mga sagisag kultura ng Filipinas, at ang ibig sabihin, ito ay
patuloy na nakabukás sa pagdaragdag at pagbabawas ng bilang kung kailangan. Sa katunayan, marami nang naging
pagbabago sa binuong 2,000 sagisag kultura noong 2013. Dahil sa mga natanggap na komentaryo mula nang
ipakita sa madla ang 2,000 sagisag kultura—sa anyong lumilibot na eksibit at ipinamahaging mga compact disc—at
dahil sa mga bagong saliksik at pangyayari ay may mga nabawas
at nadagdag sa kabuuang lawas. Mas marami ang nadagdag kayâ
2,015 ang nilalaman ng kasalukuyang edisyong nakaaklat. Upang
higit na magaang buklatin at gamitin, ang aklat ay hinati sa
tatlong (3) tomo at naglalaman ng sumusunod na mga pangkat ng
sagisag kultura: (1) “Kasaysayan at Bayani”—mga tao, pook, at
pangyayari sa kasaysayan, (2) “Kalikásan at Kaligiran”—heolohiya,
heograpiya, mga hayop, at mga halaman, at (3) “Kultura at
Edukasyon”—mga kasangkapan at bagay-bagay na pangkultura.
Unang edisyon lámang ito. Sa kabilâ ng mga paghihigpit sa saliksik, pagsulat, at editing, naniniwala kami na malaki
ang puwang para sa rebisyon, dagdag na impormasyon, at pagpapayaman sa mga pambansang sagisag kultura.
Inaaanyayahan ang mga guro, mananaliksik, at awtoridad para magbigay ng puná at makilahok sa pagsinop at
pagpapalaganap ng proyektong ito. Ang mga guro mismo ay maaaring lumahok at magdagdag ng kanilang saliksik
kapag ginamit ang impormasyon mula sa proyektong ito upang higit na makinabang ang mga estudyante.
Iminumungkahi din ang pagbása sa buong koleksiyon bago gamitin upang higit na malinawan ang ugnayan sa isa’t
isa at ang pambansang kabuluhan ng mga sagisag kultura.