TUKURAN TECHNICAL – VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

San Carlos, Tukuran, Zamboanga del Sur

PHILIPPINE POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Learning Activity Sheets

Grade Level: Grade 11/12 Date: WEEK 5

Title: Globalization and Nation State

I. Direction/Instruction: Answer this in a separate sheet. You can research in google for
your reference.
II. Exercises/Activities:
Activity 1: VOCABULARY LIST (Define the following)
1. Globalization 6. Political Globalization 11. United Nations
2. Borderless 7. Commonalities 12. World Trade
3. ASEAN 8. Phenomenon 13. International Red
Cross
4. Economic Globalization 9. ASEAN Development Bank 14.World Trade Organization
5. Cultural Globalization 10. World Bank 15. Bureaucracies
Activity 2: BEYOND WALLS
Supply the Key Features of these Forms of Globalization and enumerates some examples.
FORMS FEATURES/CHARACTERISTICS MANIFESTATIONS/FEATURES
ECONOMIC
GLOBALIZATION
CULTURAL
GLOBALIZATION
POLITICAL
GLOBALIZATION

Activity 3: What have I learned so Far?

1. What is globalization?
2. What are the characteristics of globalization?
3. How are Filipinos affected by globalization?
4. To what extent has your family been influenced by this phenomenon?
5. How does globalization pose a challenge to the state, if not the nation – state?

Activity 4: READ AND ANSWER

 Read the article written by Rommel Banlaoi, which can be accessed at

http://apcss.org/Publications/Edited%20Volumes/GrowthGovernance_files/Pub_Growth
%20Governance/Pub_GrowthGovernancech16.pdf , answer the following questions
afterward:
1. How related are the ideas of globalization and nation-building in the Philippine
context?
2. Accordingly, to the author what is the reason(s) why the Philippines encounters
difficulties in meeting the challenges of globalization?
3. Do you agree with the author’s arguments? Why?
4. What do other authors or articles have to say about the author’s idea?

Activity 5: Apply it in Real Life

 You are a lyricist and a group of musicians needs your help. You were asked to write
the words for a song that the group is going to perform at the opening of a program
for the Filipino community, first in North America and then, in Western Europe. The
subject or theme of the song you will compose is about the Filipino family in the age
of globalization. The group of musicians will evaluate your work based on content.
You may use English or Filipino for the lyrics.

Prepared by:

KIMBERLY CLER G. SUAREZ