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GENERAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

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LEARNING MODULE
VED 111: Good Manners and Right Conduct
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WEEK 1
September 8, 2020
 COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE CODE : VED 111

TITLE : Good Manners and Right Conduct
TARGET POPULATION : BEED
INSTRUCTOR : Ms. Monalaisa L. Samama

Overview:
Values Education is a field of discipline that deals with the principles on how man
ought to act in relation to anything that come across his way. It includes dealing with his
fellowmen as the end view of making the world a better place for everyone to live in.
Thus, the aim of values is character building. It teaches how the students can properly
respond to his environment with the aim of achieving the desired result of cooperation,
unity, of a just and humane society to ensure the progress and development the country.
Objectives:

General Objective:

To understand the importance of values education and how to internalize

knowledge on legal provisions so that the same be integrated into their personal
values in their dealings with anyone.

The following are the topics to be discussed

Week 1 INTRODUCTION OF VAUES EDUCATION

Week 2 PERSONAL VALUES AND ITS
DEVELOPMENT
Week 3 PERSONAL VALUES
Week 4 FAMILY VALUES
Week 5

Instruction to the Learners

Each chapter in this module contains a major lesson involving Values Education.
The units are characterized by continuity, and are arranged in such a manner that the
present unit is related to the next unit. For this reason, you are advised to read this
module. After each unit, there are exercises to be given. Submission of task given will
be every Tuesday during your scheduled class hour.

GETTING STARTED:

EXPLORING YOUR MIND ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF VALUES EDUCATION USING

BY CONCEPT MAP: (20 points)

VALUES
EDUCATION
 WEEK 1
VALUES EDUCATION
(Legal and Ethical Perspective)

INTRODUCTION

The Call for a Change

Values Education is what we need today considering the enormous problems

confronting the Filipino people such as “Narco Politics” and its offshoot, the “Extra
Judicial killings”. This is in addition to the corruption in the government; the insensitivity
to the needs of others, or the selfishness in general; the people’s addiction to commit
crimes especially against person or property are but a manifestation of lack of proper
values as the foundation of a strong and progressive society for the Filipino people.

The constitutional mandate to this effect is for the Filipino people to build a just
and humane society and to establish a government that shall embody our ideals and
aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop our patrimony and
secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessing of independence and democracy
under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love equality and peace
(Preamble 1987 Phil. Constitution).

Thus, to achieve the goal of building a just and humane society, it is a must that
meaningful changes shall be undertaken now, as later may be too late. For as the
popular songs says ”It’s Now or Never”.

Values Defined

Values is defined as the established ideals of life object, customs, ways of acting
and the like that a member of a given society regard as desirable (p.2311 World Book
Dictionary).

Education Defined

Education is defined as the development of knowledge, skills ability or character

by teaching (p. 670 World Book Dictionary).

Thus, Education refers broadly to the total social process that brings a person into life in
a culture. By living and participating in a culture the youth gradually becomes a recipient
of and a participant in a culture.

Purpose of Education

The purpose of education is truth searching with respect to anything in relation to

a man’s quest for the better life. Thus, according to some advocates, if education is to
promote change for the better, then education has to refer to Philosophy to determine
what “better” means for a particular segment of a society or for a society as a whole.

Values Education

Values education as a field of discipline therefore deals with the principles of how
man ought to act to anything that comes across his way. It includes his dealing with his
fellowmen with the end in view of making the world a better place for everyone to live in.
Thus, the aim of values education is character building. It is study on how man can
properly respond to his environment with the aim of achieving the desired result of
cooperation, unity, and self-reliance among members of the society to ensure that
progress and development be attained.

Foundation of Values Education

Truth about man and his environment is the foundation of values education. Man
must discover the truth about him and his relations with his creator, his purpose in life
and his relationship with his fellowmen and the role of the environment with all the
bounties that can be found therein.

Thus, man must rationalize as to what he’s living for. How shall he deal with
others and for what reason does the world exist in relation to him? This truth searching
must be the primary objectives and concerns of man’s existence which can only be
possible if he finds his true relation with his Maker being the Truth Himself.

Values Formation

Values Education being a character building is primarily formative in nature. It is

an acquired attitude that culminates into man’s behavior. As such, values education
constitutes as a training endeavor to make the values themselves become a man’s
habit in terms of an acquired character being the common social norms of a given
society.

Formative Age

Adolescents as they are, these young adults are in the crossroads of what life to
live as they are with the dilemma of which way to go. Hence, with lack of proper values
to guide them, in most cases, they become victims of their own frustrations.

Foundation of Filipino Values

The foundation of Filipino values refer to such virtues that we believe necessary
in the making of the Filipino nation at par with other progressive countries in the world.
The kinds of virtues which will make the Filipino people believe in themselves as a
respectable race and worth looking up to by other countries in the world.
Ethics

Ethics as a branch of philosophy is truth-searching relative to what is right and

wrong in consonance with the norms of a given society. This a question of morality or
immorality of one’s behavior which largely depends on the social norm being the
standard of one’s action or behavior.

Law

Law is defined as the rule of conduct, just and obligatory promulgated by

competent authority for common observance and benefit. Thus, law by its nature ought
to be the kind of act or behavior which the people must do under a certain situation.

Legal and Ethical Perspective

Man must live in a society, or community along with others. This is so because
man is a “social animal” and therefore, they live by the rules of the society. Technically,
this refers to what is commonly called as a “law”.

Hence, everyone has to abide by the law so that peace and order, as well as
progress and development can be achieved. In fact, ignorance of the law excuses no
one from compliance therewith (Art. 3 Civil Code). The reason is necessity. Thus, said
the Court, “Being a general principle, founded not only on expediency and policy but on
necessity, there is no ground why article 3 should be relaxed. If the rule otherwise, the
effect would involve and perplex the Court with questions incapable of any just solution
and would embarrass it with inquires almost interminable (Zulueta vs. Zulueta, 1
Phil.254).

Therefore, everyone is conclusively presumed to know the law (US vs. Dela
Torre, 42 Phil. 254).

Whether anything Legal is also Ethical

The question as to whether anything legal is also ethical, is quite relevant since
anything ethical is always correct, good and virtuous. Hence, anything that is not ethical
must be wrong, bad and/ or reprehensible.

Thus, anything legal must also be ethical, generally, that is the rule. But strictly
speaking, it is not always the case. Since there are cases whereby what is ethical is not
considered legal and vice versa. For example, A obtained loan from B. Twenty years
passed, A had not yet paid the loan so that under the law B could no longer compel A to
pay since the loan has already prescribed. Since obligation arising from contractual
transaction prescribed in ten (10) years without judicial or extra judicial demand (Art.
1144 Civil Coder). But from ethical point of view, there is no such prescription until fully
paid. In the same way, the taking of one’s life as a penalty imposed by law may be
considered lawful but is not considered ethical. From ethical point of view, taking one’s
life is the power exclusively belonging to his maker under all circumstances.

Where there is Conflict between the two, which prevails?

In case there is conflict as to what is to be done, that which is ethical or legal, we

submit that the latter be the one to do. The reason is that noncompliance with the law is
punishable while non-compliance with something ethical is a matter of conscientious
accountability.
 Furthermore, the law has been enacted for the good of the majority even though
in the process of implementation, some minorities maybe prejudiced or even get hurt.
But such is allowable under the police of the state in order to insure the general welfare,
“Vox populi Vox Dei”.

Human Relations

In consonance with the legal principle involving guidance of one’s behavior

towards one another as a matter of personal values, articles on Human Relations of the
Civil Code (RA 386) are relevant and worth internalizing as an integral part of one’s
character or values as follows:

Any public officer or employee, or any private individual, who directly or indirectly
obstructs, defeats, violates or in any manner impedes or impairs any of the following
rights and liberties of another person shall be liable to the latter for damages:

1. Freedom of Religion
2. Freedom of Speech
3. Freedom to write for the press or to maintain a periodical publication
4. Freedom from Arbitrary or illegal detention
5. Freedom of Suffrage
6. The right against deprivation of property without due process of law
7. The right to a just compensation when private property is taken for public use
8. The right to the equal protection of the laws
9. The right to be secured in one’s person, house, papers and effects against
unreasonable
searches and seizures
10. The liability of abode and of changing the same
11. The privacy of communication and correspondence
12. The right to become a member of an associations or societies for purposes not
contrary to
law
13. The right to take parts in a peaceable assembly to petition the Government for
redress of
grievances
14. The right to be free from involuntary servitude in any form’
15. The right of the accused against excessive bail
16.The right of the accused to be heard by himself and counsel, to be informed of the
nature and
cause of the accusation against him, to have a speedy and public trial, to meet the
witness
face to face and to have compulsory process to secure the attendance of witness in
his behalf
17. Freedom from being compelled to be a witness against himself, or from being
induced by a
promise of immunity or reward to make such confession, except when the person
confession
becomes a state witness
18. Freedom from excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishment, unless the same is
imposed
or inflicted in accordance with a statute which has not been judicially declared
unconstitutional; and
19. Freedom of access to Courts.