Lesson 3-A

A call for Filipino Patriotism

Group 6
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the lesson, the students must be able to:
- Show concern for the rights of others.
- Practice tolerant behavior towards diversity of views culture and beliefs
and
- Translate human rights into social reality
 RESPECT HUMAN FOR DIGNITY
• You’ll hear the term “human dignity” a lot these days. Human
dignity is at the heart of human rights. What is human dignity
exactly? What’s the history of this concept and why does it matter?
In this article, we’ll discuss the history of the term, its meaning, and
its place in both a human rights framework and a religious
framework.
 Understanding the Concept
• The traditional approach to human rights is characterized by the belief that
human rights are moral rights that all human beings possess simply in
virtue of their humanity
• Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race,
sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status. Human
rights include the right to life and liberty, freedom from slavery and
torture, freedom of opinion and expression, the right to work and
education, and many more.
 Education of Human Rights
What is Human Rights Education?
• Simply put, human rights education is all learning that develops the
knowledge, skills, and values of human rights.
• The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-
2004) has defined Human Rights Education as "training,
dissemination, and information efforts aimed at the building of a
universal culture of human rights through the imparting of knowledge
and skills and the molding of attitudes which are directed to:
• (a) The strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental
freedoms;
• (b) The full development of the human personality and the sense of
its dignity;
• (c) The promotion of understanding, respect, gender equality, and
friendship among all nations, indigenous peoples and racial,
national, ethnic, religious and linguistic groups;
 Rights, Responsibilities, and Action
• Integral to learning about one’s human rights is learning about the
responsibilities that accompany all rights. Just as human rights
belong to both individuals and society as a whole, the responsibility
to respect, defend, and promote human rights is both individual and
collective. The Preamble of the UDHR, for example, calls not only
on governments to promote human rights, but also on "every
individual and every organ of society." Human rights education
provides the knowledge and awareness needed to meet this
responsibility.
 Learning Human Right
• Standing in a queue for one’s turn
• Keeping promises
• Returning a debt in time
• Helping the injured and sick
• Keeping the public places clean
• Not encroaching on others property
 Citizenship attitude Building
Toward the responsibilities of citizenship represent a person's understanding
of the social contract. The formation of attitudes about political issues such
as poverty, defense, or even the meaning of citizenship is at the core of
development of citizenship and its related knowledge and behaviors.
1. PATRIOTISM
Feeling of attachment and commitment to a country, nation, or political
community. Patriotism (love of country) and nationalism (loyalty to one's
nation) are often taken to be synonymous, yet patriotism has its origins some
2,000 years prior to the rise of nationalism in the 19th century. Franco-
German War
2. PRODUCTIVITY
Is the degree of contributions a citizen makes towards the development of
ones society. A good citizen does not want to be a burden on his people. He
or she thinks in terms of “What can I give to the country?” not In terms of
“What can I get from the country?”
3. Civic Responsibilty
Civic responsibility means active participation in the public life of a
community in an informed, committed, and constructive manner, with a
focus on the common good. We encourage you to work with your students to
reshape or change this definition entirely to formulate one that works for
your class.
4. Interest in contemporary community, national and global issues
A citizen takes interest to seek information on the issues affecting his or her
society at every level. Today there is a global tendency developing towards
individualism.
5. Active participation in community building
Active participation includes the competences that citizens need to reach a
level of awareness of themselves in relation to the environments they are
plunged into, in order to take sensible decisions and participate actively and
positively in the democratic cultures they live in.
6. Cultural enrichment
A citizen Cultural Enrichment courses are concerned with the study of the
social, intellectual, and artistic achievements of cultures; how they were
produced; why they were produced; the influence of the context of the times
on their production; and their consequences.
7. Obedience to law
A citizen in order to obey the law a person must act with some recognition
that she is in fact doing an action that the law requires. In a phrase,
obedience requires knowingly doing the right thing.
8. National Coherence
A citizen living in a multicultural society preserves the national unity by
respecting and giving due recognition and rights to all the sectors of people
in spite of their differences of ethnicity, language religion and class.
9. Simple Living
A citizen used to refer to a manner of living in which a person does not own
many things or use many modern machines and usually lives in the
countryside. He lives in a small cabin and enjoys the simple life.
10. Democracy
The word democracy comes from the Greek words "demos", meaning
people, and "kratos" meaning power; so democracy can be thought of as
"power of the people": a way of governing which depends on the will of the
people.