A team of BSU faculty and staff shared the results of a CHED funded project on Benguet Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) to teachers of Benguet National High School (BNHS) through a seminar titled, “Benguet IKS in Various Disciplines.”

The seminar was organized by BNHS through its SILI (Sustaining IKS through Lesson Integration+) program tapping into the Institute of Social Research and Development (ISRD) extension agenda. 

Topics of the seminar covered family and kinship, governance and politics, values, spirituality and health, agriculture and food systems, land use and resource management, industry, craft and trade, arts and sports, math and science education, language and identity and history. 

According to the project leader, Professor Stanley F. Anongos, Jr., the project is partly a response to the need of DepEd teachers for a consolidated data on Benguet IKS as a reference to IP Education. The project is to be packaged as an encyclopedia for wider use.  

Members of the team who presented during the seminar include Dr. Anongos, Dr. Tecah Sagandoy, Prof. Geoffrey Amlos, and Ms. May Angeline Lapuz from the College or Social Sciences, Dr. Julie Buasen and Dr. Jovalson Abiasen of the College of Numeracy and Applied Sciences, Dr. Cheryl Launio of the Research and Publication Office, Dr. Rhonda Tullay and Dr. Jhordan Cuilan of College of Arts and Humanities, and Ms. Kacy Labon of ISRD.

Fifty teachers and 10 practice teachers of BNHS attended the seminar. 

BNHS is an active extension partner of BSU through the College of Social Sciences (CSS) and this activity is the fourth engagement the partnership concluded.  The BSU team was welcomed by Vilma Beliano, assistant principal of BNHS, SILI program head and Senior High School Chair for Araling Panlipunan, Ros Jansel Gualdo, and Junior High School Araling Panlipunan Chair Danny Otinguey.//SAnongos