Pointers MCC

• Service


  Extend service to the community
• Philosophy


  Derived from the Greek word "philia" and "sophia"; love of wisdom
• Sub-branches of metaphysics

  • General (Ontology)
  • Special (Cosmology, Theodicy, Psychology)
• Attitude


  Human nature changes only in terms of its accidental constituents, i.e. the growth of the human body, the change or development of one's attitude, and the change of behavior which appropriate to the human milieu
• Three-fold level of human nature

  • Somatic
  • Behavioral
  • Attitudinal
• Socrates


  The greatest philosopher in the Western civilization, defined "Man is a being who thinks and wills"
• Plato


  Defined "Man is a soul using a body" because the nature of man is seen in the metaphysical dichotomy between body and soul; the body is material, it cannot live and move apart from the soul
• Pythagoras


  "Man is a dipartite of body and soul."; That a soul is immortal, divine, and is subjected to metempsychosis
• Pre-Socratic Philosophers

  • Thales
  • Anaximander
  • Anaximenes
  • Heraclitus
  • Sophists
  • Pythagoras
• Thales - Man has 80% water in his brain and 70% water in his body, or a "man has a water stuff"
• Anaximenes of Miletus - Man is a human body with a condensed air and a rarefied human soul
• Heraclitus - Man has fire stuff in him in the form of heat
• Protagoras or the Sophists - Man is the measure of all things, of all things, that they are, and of things that are not that they are not
• Instructional Function


  The main concern of school, to pass on the accumulated experiences of the past generations to the incoming generations
• John Dewey


  Pragmatic experimentalist. He believed that education must be democratic. The aim of education is social efficiency. Postulated the famous "Learning by Doing Dictum"
• Social Movement


  Based on the tenets of this movement, education is looked upon as the process geared toward the propagation, perpetuation and amelioration of the society and total development of an individual
• Curriculum of Idealism


  Education should be directed towards the search for true ideas. It is subject matter or content-focused, believing that this is essential to mental and oral development
• Curriculum of Realism


  The most efficient and effective way to find out about reality is to study it through systematically organized subject matter disciplines, i.e. Math, Science, etc.
• Goal of reconstructionism


  To "reconstruct" society in order to meet the cultural crisis brought about by social, political and economic problems
• Goal of reconstructionism

  Education must commit here and now to the creation of a new social order, which will fulfil the basic values of our culture and at the same time, harmonize with the underlying social and economic forces of the modern world
• Thomas Aquinas


  "Perfection of human being and the ultimate reunion of the soul with God". Truths were eternally in God. Humans use reason to seek truth
• Aristotle


  The union of forms (ideas) and matter gives concrete reality to things. He also developed the logical method, syllogism which uses propositions. Virtue is brought by doing not by knowing
• Social services


  This may be done through some kind of outreach programs which could be in a form of literacy, health, means of livelihood, recreational activities, etc.
• Dialectic

  Process of Hegel - Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
• Desiderius Erasmus


  Use of games and individual instruction and prohibited corporal punishment
• Friedrich Wilhelm Froebel


  Created the Kindergarten which includes games and sports in the curricula
• Charles Sanders Pierce


  "Experimentalism" the meaning of ideas and thoughts are best discovered and established when these are put in an experimental test
• Other forms of Pragmatism

  • Practicalism (William James)
  • Instrumentalism (John Dewey)
  • Experimentalism (Charles Pierce)
  • Functionalism
  • Critical Naturalism
• Junior College


  Provides two-year programs (associate degrees), vocational training and transferable courses to four-year colleges or universities
• Program types in a community college


  • Short term skill building
  • Terminal 2-year occupational degrees
  • Transfer to bachelor's degrees
• Degrees offered by Local Colleges and Universities


  • Three-to-six-month course certificate
  • Two-year associate degree
  • Four-year Baccalaureate
• Local Government Unit Local Colleges and Universities (LCUs) in the Philippines


  Higher education institutions managed by local governments
• Type of TESDA training

  • School
  • Community Center
  • Enterprise
• Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE)

  Headed by secretary of labor and employment who is appointed by the president of the PH
• Government-mandated contributions are PhilHealth, PAG-IBIG,
• Probationary employment


  Employees under probation go through a trial period to decide if their skills and quality of work are up to par before being regularized. They are granted security of tenure throughout the trial period and cannot be dismissed without authorized or just cause
• One full day off

  All employees are entitled to at least one (1) day off per week
• Night Shift Differential (NSD) time

  10pm - 6 am, additional compensation of 10%
• Maternity Leave


  Leave credits extended to covered female employees who may want to use them during their pregnancy
• Vacation Leave


  These can be used for rest or leisure