Indigenous course set by Mountain Province State Polytechnic College

By Dexter A. See

BONTOC, Mountain Province— The Mountain Province State Polytechnic College here will offer indigenous peoples education to preserve and protect the culture of tribes in the Cordillera.

During last week’s celebration of its 19th Charter Day celebration, the MPSPC launched its indigenous people’s education curriculum which will be incorporated in the teacher education program leading to the degree Bachelor of Science in Teacher Education major in Indigenous Peoples Education and Rural Development.

The indigenous people’s education curriculum will be similar to the ones offered by St. Mary’s University and University of Southeastern Philippines based in Davao city.

Dr. Nieves Dacyon, MPSPC president, said the new course will providing knowledge on indigenous peoples’ rich culture and traditions in Cordillera.

MPSPC gained recognition as a prime education center in the Cordillera for rural development and for excellence in global competitiveness as it aspires to become a full-pledged university in the coming years.

The institution’s Charter Day activities focused on commitments of stakeholders as pioneers of indigenous peoples education in the country.

For the past years, MPSPC has produced responsible, morally upright and globally competitive professionals and technical workers who were able to excel in their respective fields of expertise.

It had promoted and undertook relevant research and extension activities that contributed to the local and national development on indigenous people’s education.

Dacyon said the offering of the course will help advance culturally appropriate and responsive frameworks of education and development as well as provide progressive and dynamic rural development programs.

For the past several years the course had been undergoing scrutiny by experts, said Dacyon.