From American Orientation to Filipino Orientation of Psychology.

2003.My very first exposure to Sikolohiyang Pilipino was during my last semester as an undergraduate at the New Era University, supervised then by Dr. Josefina Malibiran (who is a professor of special education and educational psychology, faculty of college of education, university of the philippines). Her teachings opened my mind about the negative implications brought out by Western psychology to the Filipino psyche. My encounter with SP eventually change my views since then.

2004.My very first paper that i did was about kapwa ("shared identity"), a concept expounded by Enriquez who labeled it as the core value of Filipino personality. After this stint that i reported in my Psych 114 class in 2003, i eventually shifted from pure emic-ism to an integrationist perspective (cf. Kim, Park, Park, 2000--JCCP, 2000 30(1); Kim, 2000--AJSP 2000 3(3)). This happened when i acquaint myself with Triandis work (2003) and that article published by Pe-Pua and Protacio-Marcelino (2000) (cf. Sta. Maria, 1996). Being an integrationist is to accept both indigenous psychology knowledge (emic) and cross-cultural and experimental psychology (etic) (cf. Triandis, 2000). SP itself is divided into two, that of which is the etic perspective by Enriquez and that of which is emi perspective by Zeus Salazar's pantayong pananaw (a type of civilizational discourse). Both dichotomies are accepted and should be seen as continuum and not two pathway dialogues (cf. Church & Katigbak (2000), Javier (1996)).

References:

Church and KAtigbak (see previous title)
Javier (1996) Layag.
Kim, Park and Park (2000) Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology: Special Issue (Looner&Church).
Kim (2000) Asian Journal of Social Psychology: Special Issue on Millenium Symposia Prelude.
Pe-Pua and Protacio-Marcelino. (see previous title)
Triandis (2000) Asian Journal of Social Psychology: Special Issue on Millenium Symposia Prelude.

Note:

In a recent conference on Philipine studies, it has been regarded by one social scientist that with respect of Salazar's contribution and work on pantayong pananaw (PP), that PP is not a social science but a civilizational discourse.