1. The Isles of My Portfolio in Literature 111
Chapter 1 Introduction to the study of Philippine Literature
Chapter 1 Introduction to the study of Philippine Literature
Thursday 31 May 2012
II. Students Output of E-Portfol
Ballares, Charlene
Casatañeda, Mylene
Lopez, Grace
Luig, Ian
Mambaro, Merry Chris
Tabilla, Charish
Taño, Sheila Mae
Traje, Lemuel
Soria, Mark
111. Literature is a Platform in Education for Sustainable Development
Dickens believed that enriching people’s life with knowledge and enjoyment of the arts was key to building a fair society and creating opportunities. Dickens 2012 is committed to following Dickens’s educational mission by supporting learning activities around the world, from teachers’ conferences and family workshops to creative writing master classes and writing competitions.
WHY WE NEED LITERATURE
1. Literature offers the best way of teaching extensive reading skills. Non-literature reading programs, and especially programs for non-native speakers, focus on short passages. Big international surveys such as PISA (or tests of basic skills) are based on many readings of very short passages. Yet extensive reading is a different kettle of fish. To read something longer, you need to stay aware of macrostructures such as plot.
2. Literature offers a way of linking the emotional with the intellectual. If students are to learn reading effectively, they have to remember significant turns in plot, and this will only happen, in the first instance, if those turns have emotional impact. So it harnesses the emotional to the cognitive. When literature does what it should, though, it acts against the alienation of the emotional and the intellectual.
3. Literature teaches values with emotional force. To take an American example, To Kill a Mockingbird is at once a condemnation of America, and a celebration of an archetypal American hero: the man who stands up to defy his whole community in defence of what's right (the same character as John Proctor of The Crucible, in a way). Khaled Hosseini does something similar in A Thousand Splendid Suns when Mariam stands up to accept her death in defence of her co-wife and her co-wife's children. Students need to feel the force of these things, or values will not be strong in their lives--but they also need to be able to defend themselves. There's nothing about literature that says it always has to be moral. Many people think that the Yugoslav war comes down in part to poetry, to the sort of thing Serbian students learned in school. Karadzic is an expert on folk ballads.
4. Literature has the power to change destructive ways of thinking on many levels. In my life, poetry has been a wonderful thing. When your emotions bear down on you to see the world in a negative light, and believe that it's not you, it's just real, at a time like that, you need something as powerful as poetry. It can crystalize what you feel at that moment, or it can transform it into something better. I believe in memorizing poetry. If you memorize a poem, it will become a part of your emotional structure, and it can only do that because its structure is unyielding. It will not give, and that's why it is worth it to you. When I was in teachers' college in Montreal in 1983, I read George Gabori's wonderful book When Evils Were Most Free.
He was a political prisoner in Stalinist Hungary. When he was in solitary confinement, he exercised his mind by trying to remember all the poetry he ever knew. He says by the time he got out, he could recite for eight hours at a stretch without repeating himself. That is how important literature is.
5. Literature is about reality. Some of you out there have probably read deconstructionist criticism from the eighties that goes on about literature being only about itself. What nonsense. Literature is about itself in so far as it is a self-contained system. But so is mathematics, and yet the bridges built by mathematical calculation stay up. "Poems are imaginary gardens with real frogs in them." Who said that?
1V. Reflection in Literature
Literature is the reflection of human experience. Human experience on memory is different through every one else many people believe that literature comes from the writers imagination and that literature is just words that form sentences on a piece of paper.Literature is the reflection of human experience because it allows every people to look back on their memories,share experiences and learning a moral lesson trough other experiences.
First,allows every people to look back on their memories,trough literature and by the help of different authors I am considering my self as an open minded one,because it helps me to reflect my memories to the present whether it is good or bad.Bad memories can be your way to be a better one and a stronger person.,because I've learned from it.
Second,Allows people to share their experiences.It makes the reader knows your personal experiences,because in literature you can share it to every people although it is good or bad.
Thirdly,literature allows people to learn trough other experiences and learn life lesson because they can see through other people thought and memories and many reader can relate people experiences and compare it to themselves.They can react differently and interrupt experiences differently,its human nature,people can take a way different things from every piece of literature.
In conclusion, literature allows reader to do many things,allows people relieve their childhood memories.It allows people to shared the same experiences or dream.But it also allows people to learn trough other peoples mistake and wins in life.Literature is truly the reflection of life on earth of human experience.
V. Integration of Education for Sustainable Development to Literature
Learning is a life-long process. Jamaicans acquire knowledge, learn skills, develop attitudes and decide on actions through an array of planned and unplanned learning opportunities which take place outside of the formal educational system – in homes, yards, communities, at work and through the media. Systematic non-formal Environmental Education for Sustainable Development experiences must be crafted, to enhance citizens’ ability to be better consumers, producers, policymakers and stewards of the environment
Learning is a life-long process. Jamaicans acquire knowledge, learn skills, develop attitudes and decide on actions through an array of planned and unplanned learning opportunities which take place outside of the formal educational system – in homes, yards, communities, at work and through the media. Systematic non-formal Environmental Education for Sustainable Development experiences must be crafted, to enhance citizens’ ability to be better consumers, producers, policymakers and stewards of the environment
For the purpose of identifying actions, a distinction is made between non-formal learning activities which target the entire nation or ‘general public’ through initiatives focusing on the home, social sphere or workplace; and those which target specific communities. Communities, a more localized target, are distinguished as people living within a geographical area or whose lives are organized within common systems. Within communities, there are distinct groups of individuals who interact for purposes stimulated by common interests, particular issues or events.
National public awareness strategies are broad in scope, often pursued through a variety of media including radio and television, print, billboards and music as part of national campaigns. The strength of these activities lies in disseminating knowledge and information and thereby increasing levels of awareness though they can, over time, produce changes in attitudes and behaviour as well.
Community-based learning strategies are typically localized in specific geographical locations, and are characterized by ‘depth’ rather than ‘scope’. They may carry messages through face to face meetings, interaction and implementation of projects, and the building up of empowered groups. The strength of community learning is the potential to create significant change in individuals, leading to long-term, sustained impacts.
Specific groups targeted by national campaigns and community learning strategies may overlap, a process which can strengthen the impact of the messages being delivered. This makes it particularly important that Environmental Education for Sustainable Development activities operating at both levels are consistent and mutually reinforcing, and create local and national communities of shared values.
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