College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean Jhoanna Lynn Cruz summarized her three decades of teaching experience as “being naked and vulnerable before her students,” which she said in the Educators’ Forum for Development Mindanao, a part of the 2nd EFD Mindanao Consultative Conference on Transformative Education that was held at Holy Cross of Davao College on January 30, 2025.
Dean Cruz gave this insight in her presentation (in the above photo) at the conference on the theme of, “Education For and With the People: Mindanao Educators for a Critical Pedagogy of Interfaith Dialogue, Climate Justice, and Social Change.”
“They asked me to give a presentation on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP), which I have been practicing since moving from Manila to Baguio and then to Davao City only by oido,” she said. “It gave me an opportunity to study the theory behind CRP and to examine my own practice of teaching in Davao first as a migrant, and now as a Mindanawon” she said.
The presentation that I crafted I called it ‘Teaching in Mindanao as Paghubad, in Binisaya,’ because my teaching experience has been a continual process of interpretation and translation. And ultimately, in Filipino, as being naked or vulnerable to our students,” she said.
She expressed her gratitude to former DSWD undersecretary and Assumption College of Davao faculty member Ms. Mae Fe Ancheta Templa for the invitation and the opportunity to share her experiences.
The top photo shows Dean Cruz with Ms. Templa (second from left) with the conference organizers and fellow resource persons.
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