Jeraline Gumalal & Aurelio Vilbar Abstract This paper describes the experience of nine in-service basic education teachers in learning how to design a mobile app using concepts of DT and UX as springboards. The teachers were enrolled in a 36-session training program that is sectioned in three parts: introduction, active, and application phases. Based on their accounts, the teachers were able to design a reading practice mobile app that is...

Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento and  Gayle Candice D. Cañete Abstract This article examines the process of labor exploitation in mango fruit farming in the Philippines. It provides a case study based on primary data collected through key informant interviews as well as secondary data. The article argues that contemporary mango fruit farming remains within the conventional labor dynamics inherited from historical capitalist domination and...

Regletto Aldrich Imbong Abstract In this paper, I develop a concept of “good food” by placing in dialogue Albert Borgmann’s notions of focal things and practices with the experiences of two Lumad groups in Mindanao, Philippines, the Manobos and the Blaans. The “availability” of contemporary food, resulting from the “device paradigm,” creates an atrophic existence rooted in social and material disengagement with food production. I argue that the...

Noe John Sacramento  Abstract Purpose This paper investigates how power and narratives among actors relate to the process of agenda-setting and deliberation in the context of climate change loss and damage. The focus is to understand how grassroots voices manifest their concerns on intensifying economic and non-economic impacts of climate change loss and damage which affect them. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on the case of...

Tiffany Adelaine Tan Leahlizbeth Sia Benedict James Duran Abstract Most studies about organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) focus on particular actions that employees, supervisors, or owners of organizations should exhibit. To encourage OCB in service-oriented Filipino organizations, this paper proposes a classification of OCB antecedents collected from the literature in theory and industry practice. By using the stakeholder and...

Regletto Aldrich Imbong IntroductionThe Philippine government has been relentless in its counterinsurgency campaigns. From the colonial wars that vilified as insurgents and bandits the honored heroes of today, up to the anti-communist and anti-secessionist civil and military efforts of the postcolonial regimes, these campaigns have not only rolled out large state resources but also cost lives of innocent civilians. Patterned after the United...