Philippine Peso Exchange RateThe Ilokano Language
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at May 8, 2010 | 5:37 pm | 0 Comment
A Language of Critique, A Language of PossibilityNakem Conferences and its work could be understood as our own language of critique.21 Our work in the Ilokano language and culture instruction at the University of Hawaii does the same thing. The simple fact that Nakem Conferences came out of our desire to put in context the centennial celebration of the first 15 more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at May 2, 2010 | 9:27 am | 0 Comment
The six EFA GoalsXX can never be vague to us as these are concerns that have not left us even when we were discriminated against, even when the tolerance for our languages and cultures was not the virtue that we saw, heard, and experienced during all these educational regimes that did not regard the difference and diversity that we offered as something of value to the more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at April 26, 2010 | 9:49 am | 0 Comment
But in all these acts of state-sanctioned discrimination and intolerance, acts that are those of a cultural tyrant, the effectively ‘othered’ Philippine ethnolinguistic communities did not raise howl but meekly followed suit, taking in all the effects of marginalization in stride. The masking of all these discriminatory practices could have been complete were it not more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at April 17, 2010 | 4:43 pm | 0 Comment
We did not realize that our small acts of resistance at Nakem Conference, if you can call it this way, were acts that take their energy from other people doing the same thing for their own people and for others, such as Myles Horton for Highlander School, and Paulo Freire for his theory and practice of liberatory education, his ‘pedagogy of the oppressed.’14 We more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at April 10, 2010 | 11:20 am | 0 Comment
The First Step to Walking: Resistance and Clandestine InitiativesAll these issues of displacement in historical consciousness are not easy to spot in an increasingly homogenized society like the Philippines, like the United States, and like any other country pretending that nationalism is equal to the singularity of a language spoken by all its citizens under the more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at April 6, 2010 | 11:47 am | 0 Comment
Our Ilokano Language and Literature Program at the University of Hawaii is the only degree-granting program of its kind in the world, with a full program for a major in Ilokano, a minor, and a certificate. There is not a single university in the Ilocos, in Cagayan Valley, and in the Cordilleras—all within the rubric of what is called Amianan—that offers any semblance more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at March 27, 2010 | 10:51 am | 0 Comment
We have not seen this happening in a long while—about half a century—when those who had the courage to write in Ilokano were also university teachers and college instructors and school administrators and students and ordinary people who knew what kind of a magnificent and luminous and true world is being opened up by their Ilokano language. Nowhere is the recognition more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at March 19, 2010 | 4:03 pm | 0 Comment
The 2000 census of the Philippines places the number of Ilokanos at close to eight million people, close to twice the number of people of New Zealand. The New Zealanders the whole world knows; the Ilokanos the world barely recognizes. We must understand here that the Ilokano language is also a lingua franca in Northern Philippines so that the census number, at best, does more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015 (Continuation)
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at March 13, 2010 | 5:42 pm | 0 Comment
No, we will no longer use Ilokano as the signifier that expresses our sense of self-worth and self-respect. If we continue to do so, we will have to contend with the signified, in this vicious circle of cultural denigration courtesy of the tyranny of our educational policies and philosophies: we will not become good enough for the universities, not good enough for the more...
With this MLE turn, now we make the road while walking: our task at Nakem and at the UH Ilokano Program until 2015
By Dr. Aurelio S. Agcaoili at March 6, 2010 | 10:34 am | 0 Comment
Introduction: We Make the RoadThe poet Antonio Machado the liberation educationist Paulo Freire loves to quote talks of the road we must make, one that does not exist prior to our journey. “Caminante,” he admonishes the traveler, “son tus hellas el camino, y nada mas; caminante, no hay camino, se hay camino al andar.” (“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, more...
