Presented during the Pre-Service Teachers' Convergence at the University of St. Louis, Tuguegarao City on Dec 3-4, 2015

1. Local Knowledge in the
21st Century
Why Not?

3. What is Local Knowledge?
• Local Knowledge is a complex set of knowledge systems rooted
in the context of a community within a defined territory,
collectively owned and shared by the people, and identifies with
their way of life. It provides an understanding of the experiences
of the people rooted from a common history that generates
similar worldviews and appreciation of their immediate,
extended and external environments.

4. What is Local Knowledge?
• These include native theories, beliefs and spirituality, customs
and traditions, including practices and local technology, and
insights of the elders in the community as well as the significant
teaching of folklores which reflects lessons emanating from
indigenous myths and legends.

5. • It is dynamic, evolving, non-discriminatory, and inclusive of the adaptive
capacities of people to embrace change including its recognition of the
psycho-social function of popular culture of the masses in society.

7. EarlyTheorists
Jean Piaget LevVygotsky

9. Connectivism is a hypothesis of learning which emphasizes
the role of social and cultural context. It is a learning theory
for the digital age.

10. Knowledge Systems as Social Constructions
• Components of a Knowledge System
Existence of practice, i.e. technology
(What people do)
Body of data and information
(What people know)
Theoretical framework
(Why people do what they do and know)
* The theoretical framework is critical because it furnishes
knowledge about why the practice/technology works, and
thus makes sense of the body of information.
Based on the presentation slides of Dennis Coronel (Ateneo de DavaoUniversity)

11. Operational Analysis of Knowledge Systems
1. Knowledge systems are intentional.
* They are not randomly selected
* They are crafted with a purpose
2. Knowledge systems are functional.
* They effect something
* They bring about an outcome
Based on the presentation slides of Dennis Coronel (Ateneo de DavaoUniversity)

12. Operational Analysis of Knowledge Systems
3. Knowledge systems are never neutral.
* They are shaped by the goals of those who constituted it.
4. Knowledge systems are navigated.
* Knowledge systems are transitory (because they are
constantly navigated) but are also subjected to fixations (and
thus may become remote and irrelevant though still functional)
Based on the presentation slides of Dennis Coronel (Ateneo de DavaoUniversity)

14. WHY IS LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IMPORTANT?

17. WHY IS LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IMPORTANT?
Local knowledge is a human capital -- the main asset that we
invest in our struggle for survival to produce food, provide for
shelter, find joy and meaning or achieve mastery of our own lives.
The basic essential component of any country’s knowledge
system is its local knowledge.
A country’s ability to build and mobilize knowledge capital is as
essential to sustainable development as the availability of
physical and financial capital.
Based on the presentation slides of Dennis Coronel (Ateneo de DavaoUniversity)

18. WHY IS LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IMPORTANT?
Identity. Globalization brings a homogenization of cultures and
the more dominant ones tend to blur the uniqueness and inherent
character of peoples.
Today, many local knowledge systems are at risk of becoming
extinct.This is because globally natural environments are rapidly
changing, and there are fast-paced economic, political, and cultural
changes.
Given the highly complex nature of social problems today, it is
important to see local knowledge as one component within a more
complex innovation system

19. Thus, the question really is not
Why Local Knowledge?
But, Why Not
Local Knowledge?

20. Local Knowledge in
Whole Person Education
• Stemming from a contextual and cultural framework of
knowledge, AUDRN views education in a holistic approach that
covers the intellectual, spiritual, humane, social and physical
development of students. Local knowledge provides students
with relevant perspectives in knowing, understanding, and
actualizing education.

21. Integrating LK inTeaching and Learning
• In the midst of a globalized world and people's
interconnectedness through virtual reality, local knowledge
enables students to analyze and distinguish problems, create and
perform solutions, and evaluate and decide what steps to take
based on their own situated circumstances.

22. Learners at the Center

23. The Learning Pyramid

24. Differentiated Learning

26. Mabbalo!
Madamu gid nga
salamat!
Maraming salamat!
Thank you very
much!