Indigenous Values for Sustainable Nation Building

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  • Katrin de Guia

Abstract

This paper introduces the Philippine Indigenous Psychology or “Sikolohiyang Pilipino”, in connection with concepts of the Philippine Personality model “Pagkataong Filipino” by Dr. Virgilio Enriquez. Sikolohiyang Pilipino has become an academic discipline reflecting Asian social realities in the field of psychology. It is a psychology of, for, and about the Philippine people. It is also a step towards a “world psychology” __ what psychology could become after transcending the limiting constructs of Western academic frameworks (which marginalize indigenous psychologies). Sikolohiyang Pilipino links modern social science to the cultural heritage of the Philippine people and their (once) ecology-friendly Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Practices. The core concept of this system is “kapwa”__“the including self” (in contrast to the “excluding self” of individualistic cultures). Equivalent terms have been identified among other ancestral cultures and indigenous peoples around the world.

Author Biography

Katrin de Guia

author of “Kapwa: The Self in the Other”

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Vol. 14 No. 1-2 (2013): January - December 2013

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