The course deals with the nature of identity, as well as the factors and forces that affect the development and maintenance of personality identity.
The directive to Know Oneself has inspired countless and varied ways to comply. Among the questions that everyone has had to grapple with one time or other is “Who am I?” And no other period is this question asked more urgently than in adolescence - traditionally believed to be a time of vulnerability and great possibilities. Issues of self and identity are most critical for the young.
This course is intended to facilitate the explorations and issues of concerns regarding self to arrive at a better understanding of one’s self. It strives to meet this goal by stressing the integration of the personal with the academic - contextualizing matters discussed in the classroom and in the everyday experience of the students- making for better learning, generating a new appreciation for the learning process, and developing a more critical and reflective attitude while enabling them to manage and improve their selves to attain a better quality of life.
This course is divided in to three parts. The first seeks to understand the construct of the self from various disciplinal perspectives: philosophy, sociology, anthropology and psychology - as well as the more tradition division between the East and West - each seeking to provide answers to the difficult question of “What is the self?”and raising among others, the question “Is there even such a construct of the self”?
The second part explores some of the various aspects that make up the self such as biological, material and the more recent Digital Self. The third and the final part identifies three areas of concerns for young students: learning, goal setting and managing stress. It also provides for the more practical applications of the concepts discussed in this course and enables them the hands-on experience of developing self - help plans for self - regulated learning, goal setting and self-care.
This course include the mandatory topics of Family Planning and Population Education.
- Teacher: Emerita Caymo