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Educational psychologist Lizamarie Campoamor-Olegario, during the launch of SEQuRe Education Movement’s “THURSDAY HABIT” series on Thursday, April 15, said that this struggle was even more highlighted when the Philippine government implemented alternative learning delivery modalities.
Schools were shut down – and have remained closed – since March 2020 due to the ongoing public health situation in the country brought by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic.
“Bakit ba tayo nahihirapan sa pag-aaral, bakit marami tayong issues sa pag-aaral – dahil napaka-tradisyonal ng ating pananaw sa pag-aaral ng mga estudyante at makikita ito sa lahat ng ginagawa natin ngayon (Why are we having a hard time studying, why do we have so many issues in learning – this is because our view when it comes to education of students is too traditional), Olegario said.
Rev. Richard Deats, a long-time global peace movement leader and one of the most influential teachers of the philosophy and practice of nonviolent action in 20th-century movements, died in Nyack, New York on April 7 from complications related to pneumonia, according to his son, Mark Deats. He was 89. As a long-time leader of the global peace movement organization, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and editor of
Fellowship magazine, Richard Deats was one of the most well respected, well connected, and most influential peace movement leaders in the United States and the world during the last half of the 20th century, said Rev. John Dear, a close friend and former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, or FOR.
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The interior of Gravity Art Space featuring its inauguralexhibit ‘ALCOHOL’
Why does art matter? In distressing times, we see more value in art. It is escapist, but also restorative, evolutionary as it is revolutionary. As John Tusa once wrote, “The arts matter, because they are universal; because they are non-material; because they deal with daily experience in a transforming way; because they question the way we look at the world; because they offer different explanations of that world…”
The Filipinos revel in art. In fact, Metro Manila’s art scene is booming despite the pandemic or maybe even as a result of it. We’ve seen the rise of art movements like the “green arts” advocacy of studio Green Artz, which promotes sustainability. There is also an increase in hobby artists or people who do art at home purely for the fun of it. And of course, there’s the presence of countless galleries, design shops, museums, and other art spaces scattered all over the capital