Care of the Postcolonial Self: Cultivating Nationalisms in The Philippine Readers

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The article examines the cultivation of revolutionary nationalisms and the construction of postcolonial subjectivities under a foreign regime. The analysis centers on The Philippine Readers, one of the longest published and most widely adopted reading series for elementary students in grades 1 to 7 in the Philippines from the 1920s to the 1960s. Due to its use and scope, the Readers significantly impacted the development of Filipino mind, character, teaching, and learning for generations. The article mobilizes Michel Foucault’s notion of care of the self, whereby individuals undergo intensive self-scrutiny through texts that serve as manuals for living. It contends that the Readers functioned as a crucial guide that enabled Filipinos to care for themselves in instilling furtive yet subversive forms of nationalism under United States rule. More specifically, two forms of nationalism are discussed, and the concepts of covert and hybrid nationalisms are situated within scholarly discussions regarding colonial complicity and opposition as well as Western and indigenous influences.
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Authors Coloma, Ronald Sintos;
Journal qualitative research in education
Year 2013
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http://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/qre/article/view/770/769
Keywords
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar United States education (general) philology. linguistics language and literature sociology (general) political science philosophy (general) arts in general international relations history america computational linguistics. natural language processing United States colonialism philippines nationalism basal readers

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