"It is something that develops our critical thinking
to help transform the world outside.
From the Greek word skhole, meaning free time,
our scholarship rests on the temporary time --
the leisure, the freedom from economic necessity --
afforded to us by our laboring families and countrymen.
This privilege should be met by efforts to relate
academic studies to crucial subjects that matter to the
people and the nation, and the whole world generally:
poverty and social inequality in general; land reform,
industrialization, freedom from foreign domination,
government reform against corruption and graft, etc.
Transformative education seeks to fundamentally change the
meaning of education (formal, academic education specifically)
from one that merely sees the world outside as an object of study
into an education that is mired in the problems of the world.
Our study of the world outside the classroom is not neutral,
not value-free but laden with interests that we need to question
whether what we are doing are really for the people.
Transformative education struggles to transform
the world in the process of transforming itself."
-Prof. JPaul Manzanilla
Department of Arts and Communication
Former UP Student Regent
to help transform the world outside.
From the Greek word skhole, meaning free time,
our scholarship rests on the temporary time --
the leisure, the freedom from economic necessity --
afforded to us by our laboring families and countrymen.
This privilege should be met by efforts to relate
academic studies to crucial subjects that matter to the
people and the nation, and the whole world generally:
poverty and social inequality in general; land reform,
industrialization, freedom from foreign domination,
government reform against corruption and graft, etc.
Transformative education seeks to fundamentally change the
meaning of education (formal, academic education specifically)
from one that merely sees the world outside as an object of study
into an education that is mired in the problems of the world.
Our study of the world outside the classroom is not neutral,
not value-free but laden with interests that we need to question
whether what we are doing are really for the people.
Transformative education struggles to transform
the world in the process of transforming itself."
-Prof. JPaul Manzanilla
Department of Arts and Communication
Former UP Student Regent
