Corazon aquino parents as teachers
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Human Rights Education in Asian Schools Volume Ⅰ
Human Rights Education in a Teacher Training Institution: A Philippine Normal University Experience
Felice I. Yeban
Manila, Philippines
Background
The integration of Human Rights Education (HRE) in the Philippine educational system is mandated by the Philippine Constitution. To give flesh to this constitutional provision, President Corazon C. Aquino issued in an executive order directing schools to integrate human rights in school curricula at all levels. This paved the way for human rights advocates and practitioners to explore the exciting possibility of finally institutionalizing human rights in Philippine bureaucracy, this time, it is via HRE.
For the first time, the Philippine Educational System is mandated to overtly and officially teach millions of Filipino students human rights concepts and values. As such, there is a need for teachers competently trained at integrating human rights in the different
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Corazon Aquino
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Who Was Corazon Aquino?
Corazon Aquino's husband had been an opponent of Ferdinand Marcos and was assassinated upon returning from exile. When Marcos unexpectedly called for elections in , Corazon Aquino became the unified opposition's presidential candidate. She took office after Marcos fled the country, and served as president, with mixed results, until
Early Years
Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco was born January 25, , in the Tarlac Province to a wealthy political and banking family. She attended school in Manila until the age of 13, then finished her education in the United States, first in Philadelphia and later in New York City. She graduated from the College of Mount St. Vincent in New York in , with a bachelor's grad in both French and mathematics.
Upon returning to the Philippines, she enrolled in law school in Manila, where she met Benigno Aquino, Jr., an ambitious young reporter who also came from a family with considerable wealth. The cou
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Corazon Aquino
By Kerri Lee Alexander, NWHM Fellow |
Corazon “Cory” Aquino went from a shy law school student, to the first female president of the Philippines. Supported by the People Power Revolution, Aquino successfully ran a peaceful movement that eventually led her to become TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year in The only other woman that received that honor at the time was Queen Elizabeth II in
Corazon Aquino was born on January 25, in Paniqui, Tarlac in the Philippines. Her birth name was Maria Corazon Sumulong Conjuangco. Her parents owned a sugar plantation and were one of the richest families in the area. The sixth out of eight children, Aquino focused on her studies and her Catholic beliefs. Her parents sent her to private school in the Philippines before she went to high school in the United States. She went to Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia, and then attended the Notre Dame Convent School in New York. When she graduated in , she began her undergraduate