Chapter 4 in NSTP-CWTS

Dimensions of Development

Overview:
Learning Outcomes
Development is the process that creates growth, progress, positive change or the additional of
physical, economic, environmental, social and demographic components. The purpose of
development is a rise in the level and quality of life of the population.
The following are the learning outcomes we are expected to achieve at the end of the lesson:

1.Use ideas and information gained from previous readings and personal experience to
comprehend a text better.
2.Discuss the importance of development
3.explain how NSTP can be a catalyst of development for the country.
4. Perform different activities showcasing Filipino values and good governance.
Indicative Content:
1. Lesson 1 - 7 dimensions of development of NSTP
2. Lesson 2 - Citizenship
3. Lesson 3 - Right and Responsibilitie
4. Lesson 4 - Critical Thinking and Enquiry
5. Lesson 5 - Filipino Values and |Good governance
Discussion:

Seven Dimensions of Development of NSTP

S-afety and security
E-ducation
R-ecreation
V-alues Formation and Moral Recovery
I-ndustry and Entrepreneurship
C-are for Health
E-nvironment

1. Safety and Security

This area involves disaster preparedness during fire, earthquake or other calamity that needs
immediate response from any trained civilians during emergency situations. Basic life saving
seminar, fire-drill and the like are some of these examples.

2. Education
This area involves enhancement of institutional support materials and facilities for the
community and school such as providing materials containing basic literacy skills for pre-
schoolers, alternative learning system for out of school youth and adults, mathematics and
science tutorials and extended services of skilled students.

3. Recreation
This area involves sports fest, parlor games for street children and painting that will enrich
youth’s capacities to relate with one another in the community.

4. Values Formation and Moral Recovery

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This involves the development of youth to be good leaders, responsible individuals imbued with
good moral values and active agent of development of the community.

5. Industry and Entrepreneurship

This area includes programs and activities that are vital to economic growth. CWTS students
demonstrate technical skills in communities like meat processing, silkscreen making and
establishing small business.

6. Care for Health

This area aims to give knowledge on medical-related fields and extend health services needed in
the community. It includes medical services like first-aid operation, vaccination, info
dissemination, basic life saving seminars, health/nutrition technical assistance and training of
youth to be first aid assistants.

7. Environment
This area inculcates environmental awareness and its contribution to health and related fields. It
involves management of waste, environmental protection, dissemination and application of
technologies supportive of the community needs and livelihood activities related to environment
and other related fields supportive of the national thrust.

CITIZENSHIP

Proper education for citizenship equips young people with knowledge, skills and understanding
to play an effective role in public life. Citizenship encourages them to take an interest in topical
and controversial issues and to engage in discussion and debate. We learn about their rights,
responsibilities, duties and freedoms about laws, justice and democracy. We learn to take part in
decision making and different forms of action. We play an active role in the life of their schools,
neighbourhoods, communities and wider society as active and global citizens.

Citizenship encourages respect for different national, religious and ethnic identities. It equips us
to engage critically with explore diverse ideas, beliefs, cultures and identities and the values we
share as citizens of our country. We begin to understand how society has changed and is
changing in our country and other parts of the world.

Citizenship addresses issues relating to social injustice, human rights, community, cohesion and
global interdependence and encourages everyone to challenge injustice, inequalities and
discrimination. It helps young people to develop their critical skills, consider a wide range of
political, social, ethical and moral problems, and explore opinions and ideas other than their
own. They evaluate information, make informed judgments and reflect on the consequences of
their actions now and in the future. They learn to argue a case on behalf of others as well as
themselves and speak out on issues of concern. Citizenship equips everyone with the knowledge
and skills needed for effective and democratic participation. It helps us to become informed,
critical, active citizens who have the confidence and conviction to work collaboratively, take
action and try to make a difference in their communities and the wider world. Democracy and
justice focuses on the role that citizens can take within the political and justice systems in the
country. It includes: freedom as part of democracy; fairness and the rule of law as part of justice;
power and authority; and accountability. We should understand that accountability happens at
many levels, ranging from a responsible opposition in parliament challenging, testing and
scrutinizing what government is doing, to citizens in local communities Challenging decisions

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that affect them. Students should learn about the need to balance competing and conflicting
demands, and understand that in a democracy not everyone gets what they want. Linking
teaching about democracy, elections and voting with the student council provides a way for
pupils to apply their learning to real decision-making Situations. Active participation provides
opportunities to learn about the important role of negotiation and persuasion within of effective a
democracy. The importance of citizenship reflects the three principles of effective citizenship
education importance set out by the Advisory Group on Education for Citizenship and the
Teaching of Democracy in Schools. These are that citizenship should develop social and moral
responsibility, community involvement and political literacy.

Rights and Responsibilities

There are different kinds of rights, obligations and responsibilities political, legal, human, social,
civic and moral. NSTP students should explore contested areas surrounding rights and
responsibilities, for example the checks and balances needed in relation to freedom of speech in
the context of threats from extremism and terrorism.

Identities and Diversity

This includes the multiple identities that may be held by groups and communities in a diverse
society, and the ways in which these identities are affected by changes in society. For example,
NSTP students could learn about:
1. how migration has shaped communities
2. common or shared identity and what unifies groups and communities; and

3. how living together in a particular society has been shaped by, and continues to be
shaped by, political, social, economic and cultural changes.

Critical Thinking and Enquiry

Using real case studies to explore issues and problems can help to develop skills of critical
thinking, enquiry, debate and advocacy. NSTP students should learn how to make Advocacy and
Representation

Developing skills of advocacy and representation provides opportunities for everyone to build on
the skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing from a language program of study. In the
context of citizenship, we learn to take account of different points of view and the various ways
in which people express themselves. We can practice communicating with different audiences,
including those in positions of power, to try to influence and persuade them about ways of
making a difference to political and social issues.

Analyze and Evaluate

This includes everyone evaluating and assessing different opinions and challenging
what they see, hear and read through research and investigation, considering scenarios and case
studies.

Advocacy and Representation

Developing skills of advocacy and representation provides opportunities for everyone to

build on the skills of speaking and listening, reading and writing from a language program of
study. In the context of citizenship, we learn to take account of different points of view and the
various ways in which people express themselves. We can practice communicating with different

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audiences, including those in positions of power, to try to influence and persuade them about
ways of making a difference to political and social issues.

Voting

This includes knowing about and participating in different kinds of voting, for example a
show of hands, a secret ballot and simulating division. Voting can be part of activities, for
example to decide on a motion within a debate or to agree a new policy for the student
council.

Here's a list of 10 things you can do right now to be a better citizen.

1. Volunteer to be active in your community.

2. Be honest and trustworthy.
3. Follow rules and laws.
4. Respect the rights of others.
5. Be informed about the world around you.
6. Respect the property of others.
7. Be compassionate.
8. Take responsibility for your actions.
9. Be a good neighbor.
10. Protect the environment.

FILIPINO VALUES AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

Our Filipino Values

EO No. 255 Directing the Heads of the Executive Department to Lead Moral Renewal in
their Agencies.

Section 1 — A " Promotion of the Filipino Values embodied in the Preamble of the 1987
Constitution , in particular:
(i) the value of being maka-Diyos, which encompasses faith in the Almighty;
(ii) the Value of being maka-tao, which includes truth , justice , freedom, love, equality, and
peace
(iii) the value of being maka-bayan, which includes respect for law, the
government of the Republic of the Philippines and its instrumentalities patriotism,
promotion of the common good and building a just and humane society; and

(iv) the value of being maka-kalikasan, which involves the conservation and development of our
patrimony.

These four values enshrined in the Preamble of the Constitution are our core
Filipino values. It defines our identity as a people. These values are what make us Filipinos. If
lived in concrete action, in our everyday lives make us good citizens and we become good
citizen by being good Filipinos.

All Filipinos must be Good Citizens.

1. All Filipinos are citizens of our republic.

2. All Filipinos must live according to these values, whether rich or poor, young or old,
Catholic, Muslim or Protestant.

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 3. We must live according to these values in all our actions, at all times, in all
circumstances.

Good Citizenship Contributes to Nation-building.

1. Living according to these values is not going to be easy.

2. However, living according to these values will bring good fruit.
3. The good fruit of good citizenship actions will not only benefit us personally but will
benefit our country as well.
4. The good fruit of good citizenship actions is what contributes to nationbuilding.

Good Citizenship Engenders Love of Country.

1. Good citizenship actions, no matter how small, contribute to nationbuilding.

2. Through their good citizenship actions:
a. Even the poor can contribute to nation-building.
b. Even children can contribute to nation-building.
3. In good citizenship actions we show our love for our country.
4. Through good citizenship actions we develop our sense of nationhood, which has
heretofore eluded us, as a people.

Good Citizenship Engenders Unity.

1. Our core Filipino values are our shared values.

2. A sense Of our shared values can be a strong force to unite us, as a people, despite our
differences.
3. Citizenship based on shared values can be a basis for unity.

The Urgency of Living According to our Filipino Values.

1. More urgently, our nation is plagued by a myriad of social ills; corruption, criminality,
gambling, drugs, violence, dirty politics, etc.
2. These social ills are destroying our country and bringing untold sufferings to our
people.
3. The root cause of all these social ills is our loss of moral values.
4. The only way to root out these social ills is to go back to our values and be good
citizens.

Good Governance
Recently the terms "governance" and "good governance" are being increasingly used in
development literature. Bad governance is being increasingly regarded as one of the root causes
of all evil within our societies. Major donors and international financial institutions are
increasingly basing their aid and loans on the condition that reforms that ensure "good
governance" are undertaken.
The concept of "governance" is not new. It is as old as human civilization. Simply put
"governance" means the process of decision-making and the process by which decisions are
implemented (or not implemented). Governance can be used in several contexts such as
corporate governance, international governance, national governance and local governance.
Since governance is the process of decision making and the process by which decisions are
implemented, an analysis of governance focuses on the formal and informal actors involved in

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decision-making and implementing the decisions made and the formal and informal structures
that have been set in place to arrive at and implement the decision.
Government is one of the actors in governance. Other actors involved in governance vary
depending on the level of government that is under discussion. In rural areas, for example,
other actors may include influential land lords, associations of peasant farmers, cooperatives,
NGOs, research institutes, religious leaders, financial institutions, political parties, the military
etc. The situation in urban areas is much more complex. At the national level, in addition to the
above actors, media, lobbyists, international donors, multi-national corporations, etc. may play
a role in decision making or in influencing the decision-making process.
All actors other than government and the military are grouped together as part Of the "civil
society." In some countries in addition to the civil society, organized crime syndicates also
influence decision-making, particularly in urban areas and at the national level. Similarly
formal government structures are one means by

Exercises/Drills:
Copy and Answer the following you are encouraged to pass your work on Google classroom,
make sure you TURN IN your work to be recorded, you can also can write it on a piece of
paper.

1. List down 5 things that you can do as a citizen to contribute to nation-building, Pass it in
your google classroom.

Evaluation:
Copy and Answer the following you are encouraged to pass your work on Google classroom,
make sure you TURN IN your work to be recorded, you can also can write it on a piece of
paper.

1. Choose 4 out of the 10 things that you can do right now to be a better citizen and give an
example on how do you do it? Pass it on google classroom.

Additional Reading
12 principles of good governance
www. Coe.int.com

References
 Villasoto, H. et al., 2015. NSTP-CWTS 2 Worktext for College Students. C & E
Publishing, Inc. 839 EDSA, South Triangle, Quezon City
 Romeo P. Gonzalvo Jr., 2018. NSTP National Service Training Program,
Mindshapers.Co. Rm. 108 , Intramuros Corporate Plaza Bldg. Recoletos St. Manila.

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