Festivals boost the local economy through tourist visits. However, the shortage of theory-building studies in festival studies needs to be addressed empirically. This study aims to conceptualize a model that describes how visitors have become loyal to grand festivals in the Philippines. Following Glaserian grounded theory, 24 repeat Filipino festival goers were interviewed. Field texts […]

This mixed methods research note sought to determine the financial capabilities of remittance-receiving households from two rural municipalities in the Philippines: San Nicolas in Ilocos Norte province and Moncada in Tarlac province. The broader concept of financial capabilities not only looks at people’s financial literacy but also their financial inclusion (access to financial products) and […]

Previous studies in the Philippines have revealed that the implementation of gender mainstreaming in education has remained vague in . Also, there is a lacuna in the literature about informed accounts of teachers, particularly English language teachers, in their attempts to mainstream gender-and-development (GAD) education in Philippine schools. Through a qualitative survey among 124 Filipino […]

Engaging in research helps teachers improve their own classroom practices. However, there remains to be some dichotomy between teaching and research, even in the context of universities. This study aimed to uncover university teachers’ perceptions on the benefits and challenges in doing research, as well as their own research practices and the academic environment they […]

This interdisciplinary methods paper talks about how families receiving overseas remittances discuss, decide and act about finance (what is called family financial socialization). Money matters yield delicate family dynamics, and families and their members hesitate to talk about money to others. Verbal interview methods may not be enough to surface emotions about money. On this […]

The current work focused on how the learning environment of college students influenced their academic motivation, choice of learning strategies, and level of engagement in the classroom. Using a cross-sectional predictive design, a total of 1002 participating college students answered four standardized scales (college and university classroom environment inventory, academic motivation scale, motivated strategies for […]

The literature in educational research reveals disparities in how academics view their academic roles. Through semi-structured interviews, this study explores how a group of 53 Philippine higher education academics view themselves as doctoral academics and their roles in academic publishing. Overall, doctoral academics (which, in the present study, refers to academics who hold doctoral degrees) […]

Health seeking is any activity undertaken by individuals who perceive themselves to have a health problem or to be ill for the purpose of finding an appropriate remedy. Alarmingly, Filipinos have a tendency to delay or ignore preventative health-care measures until the illness becomes evident. The overall intent of this study is to explicate the […]

The Research Center on Social Sciences and Education invites everyone to watch this documentary, a social impact advocacy created through the efforts of USAID, ECOWASTE Coalition and our very own Sustainability Studies Research Interest Group.  The research team led by Prof. Arlen Ancheta and members, Assoc. Profs. Moises Norman Garcia and Ma. Rosario Virginia Garcia, and Asst. Prof Ronald Castillo were among the research teams […]

Assoc. Prof. Rosalyn G. Mirasol and Asst. Prof. Katrina Ninfa M. Topacio published a paper on Reading Psychology, a Scopus-indexed Q1 journal by Taylor and Francis Online: “Reading perceptions, needs, and practices among parents of an urban poor community in the Philippines” https://doi.org/10.1080/02702711.2021.1939822 Congratulations!