Co-organized with the Development Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University and the Philippine Sociological Society, the Research Center on Culture Education and Social Issues (RCCESI) held its “#KabataanNgayon: A Workshop on Youth & Social Change” last May 19-20 at the Thomas Aquinas Research Complex.
In contrast with many researches which tackled more on the emergence of middle class, poverty, economic, and political conditions, this two-day workshop mainly focused on the youth’s significant role in their country’s social change.
On the first day of workshop, Keynote Speaker Ronald Holmes, from Pulse Asia, presented his research entitled “The Youth and the 2016 Elections: Pre-election Preferences and Perspectives” which gave insights on the youth’s optimism toward their candidates and their patterns of preferences over time through charts and tables.
Cleve Arguelles from the University of the Philippines-Manila discussed the power of collective memory to the youth using EDSA Revolution as a medium through his research presentation entitled “Contested Memories and Reconfigured Popular Narratives: Filipino ‘Millenial’ in Remembering (And Forgetting) EDSA People Power.”
Minami Iwayama and Samuel Piamonte from the University of the Philippines-Los Baños presented their research entitled “Virtual Masquerade: Understanding the Role of Twitter in the Social and Sexual Engagements of Men who have Sex with Men.”
Ma. Virginia Aguilar and Anacoreta Arciaga from the Social Sciences Department of De La Salle University-Dasmariñas discussed the extent of the Republic Act 9344, or the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act, through their research presentation entitled “The Implementation of the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act in Cavite and its Implication on Policy Formulation.”
Capping the first day, presenters from the Ateneo de Manila University Ma. Mercedes Rodrigo, Anna Loraine Uy, and Jeffrey Jongko discussed their research entitled “reADMU.txt: An SMS-based Service for Reading.”
Starting the second day of workshop, Keynote Speaker Hoon Chang Yau, Ph D, from the Singapore Management University, discussed the diversity of religion and its role on the youth’s socialization through his research entitled “Indonesian Youth Attitude Towards Difference.”
From a phenomenological standpoint to youth’s activism and their amplification of ideologies in Social Media, Prisinia Arcinue and Amado Grata from Asian Social Institute presented their research entitled “The Narratives of Millenial Youth and their Platform for Social Transformation.”
Discussing the youth’s relationship with the environment, Septrin Calamba and Arnold Alamon, from Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology, presented their research entitled “Youth Engagements in Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) in the province of Lanao del Norte.”
Charisma Love Gado and Floper Gershwin Manuel from the Rice Science Museum of the Philippine Rice Research Institute presented their study entitled “Engaging the Youth Amidst Threats of Food Security and Transformation in Agriculture.”
Jerome Serrano from Ateneo de Davao University presented his research entitled “Empirical Testing of General Strain Theory: A Case of Filipino Juvenile Delinquency.”
Associating Neuroscience to the field of Sociology, Keynote Speaker Margaret Dechman, Ph D, from Cape Breton University in Canada presented her research entitled “Multi-dimensional Life Course Analysis in Understanding Youth Outcomes: The Case of Canada” which discussed the significant role of adults in shaping and in developing the youth, citing parent-children relationship as an example.
Satwinder Rehal from the Philippine Women’s University discussed his research presentation entitled “Meeting the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) of the Filipino Youth Amidst 21st Century Public Health Risks and Sustainable Development Challenges.”
Lastly, Carljohnson Anacin from University of the Cordilleras presented his research entitled “Negotiating Identities On and Off the Dance Floor: Gender Dynamics in Nightclubs.”
Convenors for the workshop were Dr. Jayeel Serrano Cornelo, the Director of Development Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University and Dr. Clarence M. Batan, the Director of RCCESI.
In overview, the workshop systematically interrogated and at the same time shed light on the relationship between the youth today and the changes taking place around them. Through research presentations, qualitative and quantitative, it gave an insight on how the locus of this workshop copes up with the developments in society especially in the Digital Age.
The overall goal of the workshop is to publish an edited volume, serving as a landmark material to influence the trajectory of youth studies in the Philippines.
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