Externally Funded Projects

Dates of Implementation: Aug 2006 – Dec 2006 Partner Institution: UNESCO-INRULED Objective: To  document the beginnings and goals and objectives of these local education reform projects; the specific plans, measures and activities pursued to upgrade basic education in the localities; the movers, actors and participants of these reform initiatives; the challenges and opportunities encountered in […]

Dates of Implementation/Duration:  November 22-25, 2006 Partner Institution: NCCA, Japan Foundation and IAHA Objectives: In keeping with the overall goals of the IAHA, the 19th IAHA Conference had three main objectives: To afford scholars in different countries an opportunity to come together for an exchange of views, ideas, and information toward the generation and utilization

Dates of Implementation: 8-9 July 2005 Partner Institution: Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung-Manila Objective: To draw on insights from recent reform experiences in a select number of other Asian countries, particularly Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan. Ultimately, the workshop aims to produce a volume based

Dates of Implementation/Duration:  October to November 2005 Partner Institution: Participatory Research Organization of Communities and Education towards Struggle for Self-reliance (PROCESS), Ateneo de Manila University’s Institute of Philippine Culture, La Salle Institute of Governance, UP Law Center’s Institute of Human Rights and UST Graduate School of Law Association Objectives:   The series aims to bring

Dates of Implementation:    November 2003 to November 2004 Partner Institution: UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines Objective: To collect information on various aspects of youth life and the transitions that today’s youth negotiate towards adulthood. Project Description: The project entailed the conduct of an in-depth survey of the perceptions, attitudes, ambitions, fears, and concerns

Dates of Implementation/Duration:  2003-2010 Partner Institution: Asian Scholarship Foundation, Ford Foundation, Philippine Social Science Council Objectives: The principal goal of the ASIA Fellows Awards is to increase the overall awareness of intellectual resources in the People’s Republic of China, and the countries of South and Southeast Asia and to contribute to the growth of long-range

Dates of Implementation: 2003 Partner Institution: UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines Objective:  To assess and analyze the achievement orientations of today’s youth towards school and employment, and their self-identities or definitions as individuals and members/citizens of larger social wholes (families, communities, the nation and the world). Project Description: A joint project of the UNESCO

Dates of Implementation/Duration:  July 2002 – April 2003 Partner Institution: Japan Foundation  Objectives: The project aimed to cover the following :  state to state or government to government relations; business to business or economic relations; and  cultural, educational and civil society relations. Project Description: The project entailed the preparation of a sourcebook that contains (1)

Dates of Implementation/Duration: December 2002 Partner Institution: Ford Foundation-Manila Objectives: provide the participants a forum for familiarizing one another of their respective research work and interests and for understanding and/or appreciating better the factors and influences in their own lives that had shaped their (and others’) intellectual development and academic pursuits explore possibilities for future

Dates of Implementation: June 8 2002 Partner Institution: UNACOM Project Description: In anticipation of the nationwide implementation of the 2002 Basic Education Curriculum, the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines-Social and Human Sciences Committee (UNACOM-SHSC) and the Philippine Social Science Council (PSSC) spearheaded a roundtable discussion to elicit the views of nationally recognized model educators