Beyond Colonial Miseducation: Internationalism and Deweyan Pedagogy in the American-era Philippines
Abstract
This article maps early–twentieth-century Philippine pedagogy and nationalism through an intellectual biography of educator Camilo Osias (1889–1976). It examines Osias’s thinking as informed by three theoretical movements: gradualist Philippine nationalism (“Filipinism”), nationalist internationalism, and the pragmatist philosophy of John Dewey. The synthesis of these three movements allowed Osias to sketch a pluralist, democratic, and deliberative philosophy of public engagement, which was mainstreamed through classrooms and educational institutions. Such ideas, although foreign to contemporary anti-imperial intellectuals, may serve as alternatives to inward-looking forms of nationalism.
KEYWORDS: CAMILO OSIAS, JOHN DEWEY, PRAGMATISM, INTERNATIONALISM, PEDAGOGY, FILIPINISM, NATIONALISM
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is published by the Ateneo de Manila University
ISSN: 2244-1093 (Print)
ISSN: 2244-1638 (Online)