DepEd-CAR to scrutinize learning materials for misleading info against IPs

Baguio City, Philippines - To avoid misleading information about the Igorot people in learning materials, Department of Education-Cordillera assured the public they will look into them before they are distributed to the learners.

It is expected that this coming school year, incorrect information in textbooks about the IPs in CAR shall not find their way to the classrooms.

DepEd-CAR Regional Director Estella Carino, thru Mountain Province Broadcasting Corporation on July 8, 2022, said the learning materials such as textbooks and modules shall be check first before it will be administered in schools around the Cordillera.

Carino added that fair judgment and accurate details regarding the Igorot people of the Cordillera shall be incorporated in the educational materials to stop misconceptions against them.

As recalled, the printed modules given to the learners in the school year 2020-2021 contains misleading information about the Igorots that went viral in social media. Among the wrong information written in the printed modules were the inappropriate judgement of physical appearance and clothing of the group.

Said learning materials came from different provinces which were reproduced in a privately published textbook.

These offended the Cordilleran people and a call was made for these learning materials to be corrected.

Last year, Cordillera lawmakers passed a House Resolution No. 1552 that condemned the degrading depictions of the Indigenous people in CAR.

The resolution sought thorough review of all textbooks, learning modules and instructional materials and correct any text which depicts in a discriminatory way Igorots and indigenous peoples and to instruct the authors and publishers of these materials to withdraw them from circulation to stop the perpetration of misleading notions and to prevent further discrimination.

The individuals who were responsible for the matter, according to the former DepEd Secretary Leonor Briones, have already been held accountable.

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