Development- Oriented?
Last September 11, 2019, I attended a research colloquium that was held by the devcom research wing. The speaker Ms. Rikki Lee Mendiola, presented her research titled Devcom Scholarship 50 Years Hence. She talked about how most devcom researches have certain words that are closely related to each other and have significant meaning. According to her, one of the highlights of her research was how she was able to define what a development oriented topic meant. My main takeaways during the entire colloquium was how a research becomes development-oriented. She drew a Venn diagram, the two circles were development and communication, and according to her everything in the middle was a development communication oriented topic. Aside from this, she stressed on how something becomes development-oriented when it addresses poverty in reality. She stressed on this fact because she was shocked that most devcom researches did not tackle poverty in reality. She also added that since devcom was built on the foundation of the 4E’s, for a topic to become development oriented, it must of course hold the 4E’s close to its nature. In addition, she gave multiple definitions of what development-oriented meant according to different schools of thought. She of course stressed on UPLB’s brand of devcom which was participatory in nature. Basically, she stressed on how instead of a top-bottom approach, for a topic to be development oriented, it must start from the bottom-up focusing on those on the ground. Overall, the colloquium taught me a lot about what makes a topic development oriented, and these 3 indicators are what stuck to me the most.
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