LOCAL LITERATURE

TITLE: Laro ng Lahi: What It Should Mean to You and Your Child

SUBJECT MATTER: The real essence of playing Filipino traditional games

AUTHOR: Justin Posadas
a senior high school English teacher for an international school in Manila.
SYNOPSIS:

Being a Filipino child born and raised in the capital, He always know that there is
something more than just sitting in front of the television all day. The Filipino phrase laro
ng lahi simply means “games of our culture.” Without laro ng lahi, he wouldn’t be able to
say, “I am Filipino,” with a straight face. Speaking for and about his 30-something age
group, he dare say that these laro ng lahi make up a huge part of any Filipino’s
childhood. His experience of Filipino laro ng lahi made him who is him today. In
fact, laro ng lahi helped shape who Filipinos are today.

These games bonded them together, and it taught them how to communicate
with each other, even if it were in a competitive manner. It also taught them to value
team work, sacrifice, and respect for rules — definitely things he would like his child to
learn at a young age.

A huge bulk of this life skill is usually shouldered by the school, but with laro ng
lahi, the school, including the parents, would be significantly relieved of that burden to
teach it. Parents should remember that much of learning happens outside of school,
usually while children are at play and when their mood is positive, stress-free and open
to absorbing knowledge.

He believe that It’s his duty to pass them on as a Filipino parent. By doing that, it would
strengthen the bond with a parent and a child, make both of them enjoy as they
exercise and promote culture and national identity.
TITLE: Exploring Indigenous Game-based Physics Activities in Pre-Service Physics
Teachers' Conceptual Change and Transformation of Epistemic Beliefs
SUBJECT MATTER: Laro-ng-Lahi (Indigenous Filipino games) based physics activities
fortified the integration of culture in the pre-service physics education to develop
students’ epistemic beliefs and the notion of conceptual understanding through
conceptual change.
AUTHOR: Marie Paz Escaño Morales
Philippine Normal University, Taft Avenue, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila,
Philippines
SYNOPSIS:

The study conveniently involved 28 pre-service undergraduate physics students

enrolled in an introductory physics course in the Philippine University. Context-culture-
based framework dictated how the traditional Filipino games blend with Newtonian
concept formation to motivate conditions and conceptual ecology for conceptual change
to occur. These physics activities conducted by the participants in each session directed
their explicit learning of Mechanics concepts. Pre-post-test design using the Force
Concept Inventory and Epistemological Beliefs Assessment for Physical Science
detected the participants’ conceptual change epistemic beliefs improvement. Qualitative
data from student interviews and journal insights supplemented the quantitative data.

Results showed that these physics activities indicated significant change in the
students’ conception interpreted as conceptual change. The study also indicated
incremental development of epistemic beliefs, however, the progress observed was not
statistically significant.

Consequently, it is recommended that sustained and prolonged exposure of pre-

service undergraduate physics students to culture-influenced instructional designs may
lead to eventually developing sophisticated epistemic belief systems consequently
providing better teaching and learning framework and service for quality education.
TITLE: The effect of modernization on attitudes toward play among Filipino children of
Negros, Oriental, Philippines
SUBJECT MATTER: Play and sports in more highly developed societies are part of the
cultural uniqueness of communities and nations.
AUTHOR: Janice Ann Beran
SYNOPSIS:
In the urban technologically developed areas, both private and public-school
children were surveyed. Analyses showed great similarity between children in these two
school types. Only in attitudes toward anxiety situations did the private school children
reflect the greater effects of social modernization as they were influenced by formal
educational instruction and home environment. The children of the intermediate
communities showed significantly more positive attitudes as reflected in their higher
ranking of all nine factors. They differed significantly from both the urban school children
and interior rural school children. Their more positive evaluations indicated an openness
to introduced innovations as well as a tendency to uphold traditional Philippine values.

It has been shown that play was a vehicle through which social change could be
studied. The semantic differential technique was a useful and reliable method through
which attitudes could be expressed. The greatest differences were found to be present
when comparisons were made by residential locations. Mass media, specifically movie
going, did affect attitudes. Attitudes were also affected by the occupation of the child's
father. No significant differences in attitudes toward play were found between girls and
boys. The conclusion was thus reached that the degree of modernization experienced
does affect attitudes and that play was indeed a parameter of social change attendant
to development in Negros Oriental, Philippines.
TITLE: STREET GAMES OF THE KAPAMPANGAN CHILDREN
SUBJECT MATTER: The beauty of Kapampangan street games goes beyond their
recreational value.
AUTHOR: Joel G. Tubera (Angels University Foundation, Philippines)
SYNOPSIS:
In the Philippines, due to limited resources of toys of Filipino children, they
usually come up on inventing games without the need of anything but the players
themselves. With the flexibility of a real human to think and act makes the game more
interesting and challenging. Because it is a tradition for Filipinos to play in a bigger and
spacious area, most games are usually played outside the house. Filipino children are
creative in that they have made toys using insects such as tying a beetle to string and
sweeping it circular rotation to make an interesting sound.
Physical activities especially children’s games have long been praised as source
of physical fitness, skill development, fun and enjoyment, character building, social
interactions and leadership development among Kapampangan children. These games
are highly valued for their positive contributions not only to the individual lives of the
children but also to their community in general because their games are regarded as
expressions of their creativity and sensitivity.
Through games, children develop strong muscular system and skills. Children
learn to strive for physical improvement by accepting their strengths and limitations.
Most importantly, games are venues for Kapampangan children for team membership
and status. It is through these games that they develop trust, acceptance, sense of
belongingness, and growth that are essential in their lives as a child.
TITLE: Larong Pinoy: An Android Game Application
SUBJECT MATTER: The project is a game application that gives information about traditional
Filipino games. The traditional Filipino games can be played on mobile devices.

AUTHOR: Rhon Jherick A. Autriz

Merwin P. Casitas

Gerome T. Enriquez

Kristien Noel A. Nocon

Department of Computer Engineering, College of Engineering Computer Studies and

Architecture, Lyceum of the Philippines University-Cavite

SYNOPSIS:
This study was developed to teach young generation kids to learn the different traditional
Filipino games. The main function of the application its games that users can play with. The
development tools used were Unity 3D for coding, CrazyTalk Animator 2 for creating the characters and
Adobe Photoshop for design. The game was tested using conformance test and compatibility test for the
improvement of the performance of the application. The evaluation instrument used was based from
the Android Core App Quality (developer.android.com) with the criteria of functionality, performance
and stability, and Google Play. The evaluation was participated by ten (10) IT experts and thirty (30)
mobile users. The overall mean garnered 2.87 with a Standard Deviation of 0.09 and interpreted as
―Fairly Acceptable‖. The result of evaluation shows that the mobile application is a tool used to learn
the guidelines and mechanics of playing the traditional Filipino games.

The project provides users the history, game play and mechanics of each traditional Filipino
game just like in books or articles about the traditional Filipino games. Users can play each traditional
Filipino game just like the traditional way of playing it outside on the street but this time users can play
it on their mobile devices. In Sipa, the player should click the leg, elbow or hand button to hit the sipa.
The sipa should not fall to the floor for the game to continue. In Palosebo, there are two players and the
player who taps the button and reaches the top of the palosebo the fastest wins. In Luksong Baka there
is a color meter. The player should click the red button to stop the green cursor on the green meter. As
the level goes higher the cursor goes fast and fast. In Luksong Tinik, there is a color meter; the player
should click the blue button to stop the green cursor to the green meter. As the level goes higher the
green cursor goes faster and faster